“For weeks I’ve been thinking about it. I have weighed up”, Dekker wrote on his website.
“I have laid the options together and considered one by one. I have listened to my mind and my feeling. Now I’m out. I quit racing. “
Dekker, who at the promises already applied as a great talent, began his professional career in 2005 at Rabobank. A year later he won at the age of 21 prestigious stage race Tirreno-Adriatico. A year later he triumphed in the Tour de Romandie.
Important victories then continued out. In mid-2009, when he Rabobank had traded for Silence-Lotto, it was revealed that he had tested positive at the end of 2007 EPO during an out-competition control. The trialist admitted having used doping
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After a suspension of two year 2011 Dekker turned halfway back in the pack at the Chipotle Development Team, the training team Garmin-Cervélo.
He managed to enforce a contract with the World Tour team Garmin there. Here his commitment last season not renewed. The North Hollander took no more levels at the beginning of his career
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world record
Last month succeeded Dekker is not just to improve the world record
Mexico Aguascalientes he came to a distance of 52.221 kilometers, where Rohan Dennis in February in an hour 52.491 kilometers cycled.
“I wanted to prove that I can still hard cycling, and also wanted to know whether I wanted to be a cyclist. The answer is now, a few weeks after the attack on the record, clearly for me, “said Dekker.
” As a young professional, I wanted but one thing: win cycling races And preferably as much and as big as possible I would have done anything about that was my strength and my trap at once; it has taken me far and let me sink deep “
<.... p> “In recent years I have come to realize more and more that there is more to life than winning games. I headed out of love for the sport, not to the detriment of everything to gain “
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