US EditionTour de France sprint specialist Caleb Ewan retires from cycling at age 30
- Australian sprint specialist Caleb Ewan retired from professional cycling on May 6, 2025, in Monaco at age 30.
- Ewan's decision followed years of challenges, including a difficult last two seasons and a fading passion for the sport.
- He achieved a total of 65 career victories, which included winning five stages at the Tour de France—one of them on the Champs-Élysées—along with five stage wins at the Giro d'Italia and a single stage triumph at the Vuelta a España.
- Ewan reflected that even victories no longer brought the same lasting satisfaction they once did, highlighting how his connection to cycling had changed.
- His retirement surprised many but marks the end of a unique forward-sprinting career and his departure on his own terms.
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Australia's sprinter Caleb Ewan has surprisingly finished his cycling career. That's what the 30-year-old professional of the team Ineos Grenadiers told on the platform X. In his sports career he has achieved more than he ever thought possible.
Like all great performers, Caleb Ewan bowed out leaving fans wanting more
By announcing his sudden retirement from professional cycling, Caleb Ewan stuck to the old adage that you should always leave them wanting more, even if that means there will always be questions over his career.
The athlete said he lived a growing descent with sport, despite having a career of 11 years marked by 65 wins, including in large sprints: "What was all for me is no longer."
At only 30 years old, the victorious rider in 2019 and 2020 claims to be mentally worn out and chooses to withdraw from professional platoons.
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