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Back from the future to tell you Lietaer is sadly retired. He was a consistent climber and had several Top-10 and Top-15 GC placings in lesser hilly and slightly mountainous races.

Matt Holmes hangs up the wheels as well. He was linked with Tudor but the deal never materialize. His biggest success was a win atop Willunga Hill on his first season with Lotto.
 
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Sep was (within a purely sporting context) the unluckiest sportsman I have ever seen. Every big classic of the season, it would just pan to someone looking at their bike on the side of the road at a crucial moment in the race and you already knew who it was.

Misfortune just followed the guy around, to an almost comical degree, such that you couldn't help but support him. I hope his retirement brings him greater luck than the Flandrien casino did.
 
More or less 20 consecutive years at the highest level (he did have the one year with Caja midway through his career) is an achievement in its own right, and he built up a more than respectable palmares in that time too. Him never winning a Vuelta stage remains one of the most quietly baffling facts about cycling.
Sad to see him retire. Always been a big fan. He's always been an extremely solid rider, and looks great on a bike.

Among the riders still active at WT level he should be the one with the longest pro career, no? Erviti turned pro the year after LLS, Rojas two years after.
 
More or less 20 consecutive years at the highest level (he did have the one year with Caja midway through his career) is an achievement in its own right, and he built up a more than respectable palmares in that time too. Him never winning a Vuelta stage remains one of the most quietly baffling facts about cycling.
Good post… :)

Plus, I‘ll miss his vein, THE vein. Somewhere on one of his legs, front view. A spectacular, aesthetic vein. Can be compared to Savoldelli‘s vein, right side of his right leg, back in the days.

So, LLS, I‘ll miss you, and your spectacular leg vein. :)
 
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Sad to see him retire. Always been a big fan. He's always been an extremely solid rider, and looks great on a bike.

Among the riders still active at WT level he should be the one with the longest pro career, no? Erviti turned pro the year after LLS, Rojas two years after.
Think so. At the PCT level, Pozzovivo and Navarro are equal with Erviti and I think that's it for riders who started in 2006 or earlier.
 
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Schär started mid-2006 and I misread that as being a trainee, I missed Ladagnous completely.
So with Ladagnous, Schär and Erviti retiring, and Rojas probably following suit (no new contract announced), it looks like we'll have no-one left from the classes of 2005 & 2006 in terms of continous seasons at top level.

Can't be bothered to look for all the continous top level pros from 2007, but Gesink is one, and he is apparently retiring after 2024. Cataldo has a contract for 2024 and hasn't announced any forthcoming retirement, I think. Same with Uran. Cavendish might not do another year after 2024.
 
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So with Ladagnous, Schär and Erviti retiring, and Rojas probably following suit (no new contract announced), it looks like we'll have no-one left from the classes of 2005 & 2006 in terms of continous seasons at top level.

Can't be bothered to look for all the continous top level pros from 2007, but Gesink is one, and he is apparently retiring after 2024. Cataldo has a contract for 2024 and hasn't announced any forthcoming retirement, I think. Same with Uran. Cavendish might not do another year after 2024.
I think all those that you mentioned above will be gone after 2024.
 
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