Nairo clarified about his retirement and was very rigorous with the moment of cycling in Colombia

Nairo Quintana He spoke exclusively with AM850 cycling, the experienced corridor touched several points, referred to his possible retirement, spoke rigorously about the moment that Colombian cycling lives and took the opportunity to praise Tadej Pogacar.

Does Nairo Quintana retire?

“At the moment I continue, I have a contract for next year, I am happy, I feel good, I have done these years diffringing for me, it is true that I have not had the fortune or the strength of being winning as before, but I have been able to lead and transmit to my team all that experience that I have acquired in these years.”

The difficult moment of Colombian cycling

“We always have the commitment to win that we have seen that cycling has changed, cyclists are much more complete. And not only Nair Well, logical that the same number of cyclists will not come out as the one seen in this decade or with the same brightness because at this time they are not having the training or preparation from any point of view. At 22, but if we started tomorrow it would occur in seven years, from the day since it begins minimal they will take seven years to start seeing the fruits of those seeds that are sowed. ”

The new cycling

“In this new cycling it is clear that we are becoming older and many do not support it, we feel young in our head, but the reality is that new generations are arriving and our cycling is true that it had less technology and of course it has more and more to evolve, but this evolution after the covid was impressive, in the cycling of now it will always go to Topo, the young people if they are not preparing since the nine or ten years and how it is already late Boy here in Latin America where resources and knowledge are limited about this new cycling.

Praise to Tadej

“Pogacar the truth that of all those who speak in the history of cycling The only similarity that there was Eddy Merckx, of the rest no generation had lived something so impressive, it is a very complete, brilliant corridor, with impressive characteristics for all the fields. He is clearly the strongest man of recent years.”