{"id":22572,"date":"2013-09-12T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/europcars-veilleux-announces-retirement\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:19:18","slug":"europcars-veilleux-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/europcars-veilleux-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Europcar\u2019s Veilleux announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=16459\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16459  \" alt=\"Europcar's David Veilleux. Photo: Jeff Pachoud \/ AFP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d14b7_8897554-600x399.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Europcar\u2019s David Veilleux. Photo: Jeff Pachoud \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p>David Veilleux has announced that he will retire from professonal cycling after the Grand Prix de Montr\u00e9al at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Team Europcar rider\u2019s surprise decision comes at the end of a fine 2013 season that saw him win a stage of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 and become the first Quebecois to ride the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>Still only 25 years of age, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/veilleux-takes-yellow-green-polka-dots-in-dauphine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veilleux explained that he has fulfilled his ambitions as a rider<\/a> and that he is now retiring in order to complete a diploma in mechanical engineering at the Universit\u00e9 Laval in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I am announcing that the Grand Prix races in Quebec and Montreal will be my last competitions as a professional cyclist,\u201d Veilleux wrote in a letter published by tvasports.ca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve taken the decision to end my career with the aim of pursuing my studies full-time and getting my diploma in mechanical engineering at the Universit\u00e9 Laval in two years\u2019 time.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cyclingnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more David Veilleux\u00a0news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/david-veilleux\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/15f0c_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europcar\u2019s David Veilleux. Photo: Jeff Pachoud \/ AFP David Veilleux has announced that he will retire from professonal cycling after the Grand Prix de Montr\u00e9al at the weekend. The Team Europcar rider\u2019s surprise decision comes at the end of a fine 2013 season that saw him win a stage of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}