Twenty-year-old Adrien Costa, the first American to win the prestigious Tour de Bretagne in France, will not return to racing with Hagens Berman Axeon in 2018, according to an announcement from the team. Costa took an official hiatus from the U23 development program last July and hasn't raced since teammate Chad Young died from injuries in a crash at the Tour of the Gila in April.
Costa had planned to return to racing this season, but after taking time away from cycling to travel, work and consider his educational options, he has decided to "stay away from racing," according to the team's announcement.
“I’m just not ready to come back yet,” Costa said in a statement released by the team. “The more I thought about it, the more I realized I didn’t want to hold a spot on the team when that meant denying someone else of the opportunity."
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Hagens Berman Axeon announced that Costa's former sport on the team will go to 21-year-old Sean Bennett from CCB Foundation-Sicleri Cycling Team.
Costa has been considered one of the brightest young prospects in American cycling since he was a junior, when he won multiple national championships and road races in Europe. He was second in the junior time trial world championship in 2014 and then second again in the junior time trial at the 2015 world championships in Richmond.
In his first year with Axeon and with the U23 national team in 2016, Costa won Bretagne, then the mountains classification at Rhône-Alpes Isère. He won an individual time trial at Tour de Savoie Mont Blanc and then claimed second overall Behind Lachlan Morton at the Tour of Utah, finishing ahead of Cannondale's Andrew Talansky and BMC's Darwin Atapuma. Costa ended the season with third overall at Tour de l'Avenir, and then started a brief trainee period with Quick-Step Floors, racing only four days with the Belgian WorldTour team after crashing in the Tour of Britain.
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