Bardet explains his decision to quit and “no longer feels in tune with the community”

A page will be turned for French Cycling. A few months after Thibaut Pinot, another face will retire at the end of the season. Romain Bardet therefore decided to hang up his bikes after a particularly rich career. After announcing his decision shortly before the Tour de France, he shone, seizing the yellow jersey for the first time during the first stage. While he will stop definitively after the Critérium du Dauphiné, Romain Bardet detailed the reasons which pushed him to make this choice.

Bardet didn't want to spend the year too long

The Auvergnat felt great weariness and no longer felt in tune with the values ​​of current cycling, as he confided to Eurosport : “It's not the sacrifices or so, this life from hotel to hotel, from airport to airport… It's mainly my physical limits that have been, I think, reached. I can still achieve results but I won't win many races every year anymore. There was the desire to anticipate a bit of a decline which is inevitable and also to be in touch with my values, my ethics, my personal hygiene and my conception of the profession which is no longer totally in phase with that of my environment. . Before this dissonance becomes too significant, I think we need to know how to say stop. »

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