{"id":270418,"date":"2025-11-08T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:08:10","slug":"alexander-kristoffs-retirement-plans-dont-involve-sunbathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270418\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Kristoff&#8217;s retirement plans don&#8217;t involve sunbathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many cyclists have retired in the 2025 season, but very few (if any) with the career of <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/alexander-kristoff\" title=\"Alexander Kristoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Kristoff<\/a>. The Norwegian has decided to hang up his bike at the age of 38 after one last dance with the Uno-X Mobility team, and with 98 pro wins under his belt. But that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s forgetting the sport, far from it, as he&#8217;s decided to buy a pro team.<\/p>\n<p>The new challenge in which Alexander Kristoff has decided to immerse himself in this new stage of his life is still in Norway, as he has become co-owner of his country&#8217;s continental team: Team Drali &#8211; Repsol.<\/p>\n<p>This professional team had been called <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/team-coop\" title=\"Team Coop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Coop<\/a> &#8211; Repsol for the past few years, but the first sponsor will cease to exist this 2025. Drali, its new main sponsor, is an Italy-based bicycle brand that has signed a contract until the end of the 2028 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many cyclists have retired in the 2025 season, but very few (if any) with the career of Alexander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-270418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}