{"id":575950,"date":"2025-11-17T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:23:19","slug":"dutch-talent-receives-many-positive-reactions-upon-early-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575950\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch talent receives many positive reactions upon early retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

This September, Ide Schelling<\/a> surprised the cycling world with his final decision to retire from competition. At just 27 years of age, the Dutchman from XDS Astana Team<\/a> has hung up his bike, much earlier than expected for a rider of his qualities.When a rider retires at such a young age, it usually generates reactions of surprise. However, according to Ide Schelling himself in an interview with RIDE<\/a> magazine, the former rider was surprised by the way the news of his end as a professional have been responded to.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t get any negative feedback; I didn’t expect it. I thought people would wonder, ‘What are you doing now?’ That I had gone crazy. But I wasn’t surprised. I also received reactions from the peloton, reactions of understanding. I’m not the only one who feels that way. Still, it’s still a very important decision for me,” Schelling began, noting.<\/p>\n

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“I understand why others think I’m going against the grain. I got a lot of nice messages, even from people I haven’t talked to in a long time: former sports directors and coaches,” he added.<\/p>\n

The reaction from his former trainer<\/p>\n

“My former coach, Henrik Werner, sent me an old photo from the third stage of the 2021 Tour de France. I had scored one more mountain point and then I was going to drop out of the peloton. I had to wait 4 minutes and then I went to the toilet with the people in the team car. I was next to the team leader and the mechanic. I had never seen that picture before, but I thought it was funny. It brought back a lot of memories. Henrik loved it,” Ide Schelling said of his former coach’s support.<\/p>\n

\"XDS<\/p>\n

XDS Astana Team has lost Ide Schelling after his retirement at the age of 27.<\/p>\n

Finally, Ide Schelling concluded his remarks by answering the question of how he wants to be remembered by the fans: “By being myself. I think I’ve been a good addition to the peloton and I still am. People will remember me that way. I don’t worry too much, because I feel that everything is going well,” he said.<\/p>\n

Schelling has retired from cycling with 3 victories as a pro: a stage win at the 2023 Itzulia, another at the 2023 Tour of Slovenia, and the 2021 GP des Kantons Aargau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This September, Ide Schelling surprised the cycling world with his final decision to retire from competition. At just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,182639,79,16,15,182640],"class_list":{"0":"post-575950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-ide-schelling","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-xds-astana-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115564551571257685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}