{"id":354019,"date":"2026-01-05T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354019\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:39:06","slug":"belgian-world-tour-ends-cycling-career-intermarche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354019\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian World Tour ends cycling career &#8211; Intermarch\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After 14 years of living the life of a professional cyclist, it\u2019s time to close this chapter,&#8221; van Hoecke said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTF07xWiGX5\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram post<\/a>. Whilst he hasn&#8217;t taken a pro win, he has spent many years at World Tour level, racing for teams such as Visma, CCC, AG2R and in his final two years as a pro: Intermarch\u00e9 &#8211; Wanty. In the early years of his career, he has conquered a world title on the track in the Madison event with Kenny de Ketele.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve always enjoyed every moment, gave everything I had, and lived my greatest passion: cycling. Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way &#8211; family, friends, teammates, staff and fans! I step away with a great sense of fulfillment, and cycling will always remain a part of my life. I look back with gratitude and satisfaction, and I\u2019m motivated to embrace a new challenge \u2014 one I will pursue with the same commitment and passion&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;After 14 years of living the life of a professional cyclist, it\u2019s time to close this chapter,&#8221; van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,136392,109446,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-354019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-gijs-van-hoecke","tag-intermarche-wanty","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}