De la Fuente without team for 2013, facing possible retirement
Caja Rural rider in familiar situation to end of 2𓂃012
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:David de la Fuente finds himself in almost the identical position as this time last year – the Spaniard is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:once again without a team for the coming season. His current 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Caja Rural squad did not renew his contract after reportedly promising him a spot on the team for 🌃2013.
"I was saying all year, since I signed in January, I would do another year [with Caja Rural]," de la Fuente told . I was thinking I🥂 was going to do well this year so I chose to wait till💎 later before signing.
"Then we left for the Vuelta and I was told they had me one hundred percent, until we specif🌠y the q𝄹uantities and all ... On the last day of the Vuelta I was told the contract would come in two days and never came," he said.
De la Fuente’s finished second overall in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España’s climbing classification – 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:won by Au💙stralia’s Simon Clarke (Orica GreenEdge) however, i🌱t’s been a while since the trusted domestique took a victory.
The 2009 GP Miguel Indurain was de la Fuente’s most recent victory and despite being part𒈔 of Alberto Contador’s winning Astana team at the 2010 Tour de France and a right-h🦋and man to the 2011 Vuelta champion Juan José Cobo, the 31-year-old is facing possible retirement.
"Although this time and getting used to the idea that life has its phases for a r๊ider and perhaps because of how bad this cycling, mine is running out," said de la Fuente.
The rider who has finished in the🌊 top-three of the climbing classification at both the Tour and the Vuelta admits there has been int🎃erest from teams but he’s not willing to ride for nothing.
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"But the truth is I'm not willing to take any price. Maybe something that has long disღmissed had caught now, but I will not repent and because what's done is done.
"I'm pretty pessimistic to do it [sign with a team so late in year🍒] again, or at least be able to find something."
If de la Fuente choose꧙s to retire he says that he would continue to be involved in cyc🉐ling in some way but the decision would not be without some regrets.
"I would love to continue to enjoy it, which is something ♐important. But, as I said before my thorn would 🐷be not winning in a big way."
