{"id":269978,"date":"2025-11-08T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269978\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:50:07","slug":"alexander-kristoffs-retirement-plans-dont-involve-sunbathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269978\/","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":269979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-269978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}