‘I became a shadow of myself’ - Nacer Bouhanni retires after tough injury return

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Frenchman hangs up wheels after struggli⛎ng followi🔯ng Tour of Turkey crash which left him with a fractured vertebrae

Nacer Bouhanni (Arkéa Samsic) lining up before Heylen Vastgoed Heistse Pij in 2023
Nacer Bouhanni (Ark&eꦑacute;a Samsic) lining up before Heylen Vastgoed Heists🐟e Pij in 2023 (Image credit: Getty Images)

Nacer Bouhanni has called an end to his time as a professional cyclist, with the French sprinter having struggled through his fina𒈔l season as he attempted to come back from a nightmare crash in 2022 and once again find the speed he had displayed through the rest of his 13-year𝐆 career.

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Arkéa-Samsic rider, who won a total of 70 in his career, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:crashed at the Tour of Turkey in April of 2022, suffering a fracture of the first cervical vertebrae and finishing his season just as ☂it was beginning to gather steam.  

Simone Giuliani
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Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leiꦇsure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015🐷 her career focus also shifted to the sport.