By: Andrés Fonseca Isaza

After the disappearance Continue to NextHash future Sergio Luis Henao still in a state of limbo. Antioqueno racer Keep practicing, apart from not having a team for next season. However, a 34 year old beetle will consider the option of ending their career path.

“Retirement is an optionSince the team is not still on the WorldTour and the continuity won’t even be professional but continental, to date I have nothing. If I don’t get something in Europe I think it will be the end of my careerHenao said in an interview with the newspaper El Colombiano.

Hanging the bike definitely didn’t go according to planWell, I have another two year contract with South African training and everything is safe. But the news that the team discontinued took him by surprise. “Personally, it hit me a lot, more because it’s at the end of the year, where getting a new cast is complicated because everyone with a closed salary ”, added the seasoned racer from Antioquia.

Henao, who stands out as one of the most regular Colombian cyclists of the last decade in the category World tour, very important for victory Chris Froome in Tours in Francia 2016 and 2017.

“I am grateful for cycling, for everything it has given me and I have been able to achieve. What I have, like my family, I owe for cycling. I’m lucky to be in one of the best teams, to share with one of the best runners in history like Froome, to achieve victory, title, to fight the Olympics. This is not the way I want to quit my career, but if I have to stop cycling, I left with my head held high, proud of myself as an athlete”, concluded Henao.

Former South African team runner Continue to NextHash account in his notes with a Paris-Niza, two Colombian titles, stages on the Tour of the Basque Country and Tour of Poland, and a podium at Flecha-Valona, ​​among other achievements.