Triple Cyclo-cross world champion Erwin Vervecken recently announced his retirement from a sport that gave him nearly a lifetime of achievements and the famed Belgian waved goodbye to his American fans at the Planet Bike Cup held in Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday – his final race on American soil before starting the next chapter in his life. “I’m 37 at this moment and it’s my last season,” said Vervecken, who donned his rainbow skinsuit in the USA for the first time in 2001. “Three …

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Vervecken’s fond farewell to American ‘cross