“Retirement alert!” This is how Jonathan Hivert announces this Wednesday that he will hang up the bike at the end of this season, after 17 years with the pros. “A long way, since my first license in 1991” writes the 37-year-old cyclist, born in Chambray-lès-Tours, who passed through the US St-Pierre-des-Corps and Saint-Cyr sur Loire as a teenager.
“I think I have achieved what I could achieve and I am very happy with this journey” adds the one who has participated in the Tour de France three times, and has hung on his record a stage victory on the Tour de Romandie, a stage of Paris-Nice or the Etoile de Bessèges, in 2013. Jonathan Hivert, one of the “grandpas” of the peloton with the other professional Tourangeau Cyril Lemoine, should not stay too far from the bike. He says hopestay with this sport” in his “new life coming.“