168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom-Jelte Slagter has announced his retirement from professional cycling, with the Dutchman set to work in agricul𓆉ture as a dealer of John Deere machinery. 

Slagter, 31, turned professional with Rabobank in 2011 and spent three years at the team that's now known as Jumbo-Visma, achieving his biggest career victory with the 16ꦜ8澳洲5最新开奖结果:overall Tour Down Under title in 2013. 

He moved to Jonathan Vaughters' Garmin team - now EF Pro Cycling - in 2014 and won two stages at Paris-Nice, along with stages aℱt the Touౠr of Alberta, Tour du Haut Var, and Tour of Austria, plus top-10's in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and the GPs of Montréal and Québec.

After two seasons at Dimension💮 Data, he spent 2020 at ProTeam level with B&B Hotels-Vita🧸l Concept, but has now decided to hang up his wheels.

"After a career of 10 years as a professional cyclis🍎t, the time has come for me to take a new path and with a lot of ambition to focus on a new c𝔉hallenge," Slagter said in a social media statement.

"The past 10 years as a cyclist have 👍been a great time in which I would not have missed anything. I will carry that with me forever, but now is the 🌜right time to say goodbye."

Slagter also announced that he will start a new career in January, working as a representative for Groenoord, aꦗ dealership for John Deere, which makes tractors and other farming equipment.

"I can also announce where my future lies, because I have signed a collaboration with Groenoord in the position of rep🔜resentative agriculture machinery, in my beloved province of Groningen," Slagter wrote. 

"I'm really lookin🏅g forward to this 𝓡new step and can't wait to build on the future together. I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported and followed me during my cycling career."

In an interview🌜 with local newspaper , he added: "I've always loved John Deere - definitely number one for me. If that vacancy had🎐 been from Fendt or New Holland, I wouldn't even have contacted them.

"I've always 🅘loved the sport, and still do. It's not that I'm tired of it. But I have always done a lot of things outside of it. Cycling was a big part of my life, but it has never been my whole life. There was one too many every day away from home. I just wanted to be with the kids."