{"id":665704,"date":"2025-12-31T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665704\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:56:11","slug":"former-australian-national-champion-retires-from-pro-cycling-after-nine-years-spent-racing-at-world-tour-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665704\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australian national champion retires from pro cycling after nine years spent racing at World Tour level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotson, now 31, joined Groupama &#8211; FDJ in 2019 after the demise of BMC and in the French team, he continued to have space to perform in the time trials, but mostly grew in his role of a leadout man. A quality rouleur, he was always a rider known to spend time in the wind, either chasing breakaways, or above all, helping Arnaud D\u00e9mare in his pursuit of victories in the sprints. In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/miles-scotson-will-join-arnaud-demare-in-arkea-bb-hotels-on-a-two-year-deal-from-2024-onwards\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotson followed D\u00e9mare into Ark\u00e9a &#8211; B&amp;B Hotels<\/a> where he raced for the last two years of his career. He raced all Grand Tours in his career, notably being part in the 2021 Tour de France; and also raced on 12 occasions in the monuments, where he was a valuable asset mainly in the spring classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotson, now 31, joined Groupama &#8211; FDJ in 2019 after the demise of BMC and in the French&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[182359,4230,203113,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-665704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-arkea-bb-hotels","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-miles-scotson","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115816889191181574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665704","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=665704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}