Tiffany Cromwell

I genuinely don't know the answer because it's not really public knowledge unless you chat into the guys in-house.

Just finally, Marco, for the podcast, I do want to give a shout out to Tiffany Cromwell.

She's part of your, our generation.

One of the last, one of the last of that Jayco, GreenEdge, your junior worlds.

Uh, right, one other piece of racing news for you now.

Uh, Tiffany Cromwell, uh, has called time on her professional road cycling career after 16 years, and she's gonna call time on professional cycling full stop, uh, we think, after the home Gravel World Championships next month, or her home Gravel World Championships next month.

16 years, quite a good stint-

It's not a bad stint, that, yeah

Beyond transfers, there's also been a couple of riders who announced their retirements over the last week.

Ben Swift of Net Company Ineos will hang up his racing wheels at the end of this season after 18 years as a pro rider, whilst Tiffany Cromwell will retire after competing at her home gravel world championships in Australia in mid-October.

Both have had incredibly solid careers, and they've also been great ambassadors for our sport, so congratulations to both.

In other news, Mathieu van der Poel is set to ride the Tour of Luxembourg next week as his preparation for the World Road Championships, rather than the Canadian one-day races in Quebec and Montreal.

I wish they would have had.

So we weren't filming when this happened, but I was sitting there when Tiffany Cromwell came up and oh my God, dude, that was like the funniest thing.

That's oh man.

I wish a camera would have been on that.

She's doing funny.

Insert quotation.

But, uh, and then, uh, I'm sitting there like messing with my phone and Tiffany Cromwell comes up.

And okay, so the only reason I went up to her is because at this point now, in the women's field, since I was doing their media coverage, when there's someone I don't know personally or haven't met personally, I introduced myself just to get like that interaction done.

There are big European teams.

Yeah, Canyon Stram is going to head over and do it, and they've... got um tiff cromwell's already in the us because she did gravel worlds not the world championships but it's named gravel worlds in nebraska um recently but they also have micah vandadoon is going over to do it and there's some um italian teams as well but it is a huge race and of course the two american world tour teams will be there with uh human powered health and ef education only So it'll be a really good race.

And it's a great opportunity for a lot of American teams, but...

when we were racing lauren they had a lot of chances to line up against the top teams with like redlands and tour california and stuff but with california not on this calendar anymore and a lot of the teams don't go over to do redlands either so it's the only opportunity for a lot of american riders to be able to line up against against world tour teams so it's a very it's going to be a very very exciting race and i'm absolutely thrilled that it is back it's Who knows? Maybe maybe bike racing will return.

And I'll do the fifth one this year in Australia.

I think only me and Tiff Cromwell have done all of them.

And I think she's retiring this year.

So maybe if I keep going next year to world champs, maybe I'll be the only one who's done all of them, which would be cool.