Voss, Gretsch hang up their bikes
Two German riders have ended their careers, after finding no new team for the 2017 season – Paul Voss (Bora-hansgrohe) and Patrick Gretsch (AG2R).
Voss rode for Bora the last four years. He was told in September that he would not be moving up to the WorldTour with the team. The 30-year-old turned pro with Team Milram in 2009, and joined Endura the next year. That team later merged with Bora. He rode the Tour de France the last three years, wearing the mountain jersey for one day in 2016.
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Former junior world time trial champion Gretsch said that he was not offered "a lucrative contract, that is, one which would make it worthwhile to be underway nearly half the year, to have to live out of a suitcase and to miss the chance to jump into a 'normal' life."
Then now 29-year-old won the junior world title in 2004. He turned pro in 2010 with HTC-Highroad and rode with Argos-Shimano for two seasons before joining AG2R in 2014. He has three individual pro wins, winning the prologues in the Ster Elektrotoer (2011), the Tour of Colorado (2011) and the Andalucia Tour in 2012.
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