Roulston retires from road cycling
Hayden Roulston has called an end to his road career which started in 2002 with Cofidis. The 34-year-old will turn his focus to a second appearance at the Olympic Games in Rio next year in the team pursuit. Roulston has spent the last four seasons with the Trek team having also ridden for the HTC, Cervelo, Health Net and Discovery teams.
"My career on the road as a professional is done. I won't go back on the road, I'm not far away from retiring, and hopefully I'm going to retire on the track," Roulston told Stuff.nz. "It's basically the full circle. I started on the track, I went to the road, now I'm coming back to the track to finish something I started many years ago."
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Roulston's last road race was last month's Canadian WorldTour one-day Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in which he recorded a DNF. The New Zealander announced his return to the velodrome last month, naming the Oceania Championships as his first competitive event in several years. The 2008 Beijing individual pursuit silver medallist explained his decision to end his road season allows him to focus 100% on claiming a gold medal next year.
"The whole programme has changed, everything is just evolving. Same on the road, things getting more specific, it's no longer 2004, that's the way the world works," he said. "I don't believe you can do both and do them well, something has to give. So now I do just have that one focus, I think it'll be much better for me."
Roulston added he first considered returning to the track at the start of the decade and it was always a matter of when, not if.
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