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As for his future, Quintana does not envisage a total break from cycling: “I\u2019m quite restless and I\u2019d like to keep training academically. And later on there will be different things. For now we also have family projects, our gran fondo that\u2019s held every year, a very complete sports festival. The day I decide to leave the bike I\u2019ll surely be busy and linked to sport, above all its promotion and education.”<\/p>\n
Although he admits that accepting the passage of time is not easy, he does not dramatise it either. “You can see my retirement is closer because I\u2019m no longer 20 or 25, I\u2019m 36, and even though it\u2019s hard for the head to accept, time has passed and I’ve seen many generations go by, and I’m still here pedalling at a good level and enjoying it. For now I\u2019m going to keep enjoying it, and later I\u2019ll see what happens when the time comes.”<\/p>\n
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Nairo Quintana still enjoys the bike and is not considering retirement<\/p>\n
No unfinished business for Nairo<\/p>\n
With a palmar\u00e8s that includes a Giro d\u2019Italia and a Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, plus multiple Tour de France podiums, Quintana insists he has no unfinished business: “Winning, I always want to win everything, but I don\u2019t have a thorn in my side or any remorse because when you give everything, there\u2019s nothing to reproach. I prepared well and then the result was what it was, giving my maximum. I never let myself go, I never turned up overweight, never out of time, always with maximum professionalism.”<\/p>\n
He even reflects on the physical evolution of today\u2019s peloton: “I saw some young riders and they\u2019re all super tall, another prototype of cyclist, and I started thinking about these lighter riders and even about myself, how much we have to battle to face all of them because, in terms of power and body type, they have a big advantage, and what we\u2019ve achieved is really worthy. I\u2019m very happy with what I\u2019ve done.”<\/p>\n
Without nostalgia or complaints, Nairo is riding his final seasons with the calm of someone who knows he has marked an era and that, when the time comes, he will remain connected to the sport that gave him everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As for his future, Quintana does not envisage a total break from cycling: “I\u2019m quite restless and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,39552,179344,85],"class_list":["post-509454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-movistar-team","tag-nairo-quintana","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509454","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=509454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}