“Even when I crossed the line again thanks to ineos grenadiers, that I will never thank enough (Editor’s note: British training offered him a last -minute contract last January, while rumors of early retirement already circulated)the feeling of victory for which I have been running for many years has faded faster than usual, said the Australian in a long message on social networks. My experiences of the past two years, in particular the second half of 2024, won a significant part of my relationship with sport. “
Demoted by several more complicated seasons, at Lotto (where his very complicated France 2023 2023 Tour had broken the mutual trust with the Belgian team for which he stacked 30 victories) then at Jayco-Alula (with whom he raised his arms three times in 2024), Caleb Ewan said Stop abruptly but sincere. Like a character we love, that we hate or like to hate. But who leaves no one indifferent.
The runner of a 65 meter can still boast, in his second life that we wish him happy, to have been a real winner. With 65 wins in 11 seasons, including 11 on the big towers, he was a formidable finisher. Winner on the Champs-Élysées in 2019, the Grail for a sprinter, he is also part of the club of stage winners on the three big towers (5x on the Tour de France, 5x on the Giro and once on the Vuelta). If he has never won a monument, he finished second in Milan-San Remo twice (2018 and 2021). And he will have hosted the platoons for a decade. With ups and downs. But always brilliantly.
