Alexander Kristoff experienced the worst season of his sporting career in 2021, and says that “if the results do not begin to arrive” with his new team, Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, 2022 could be his farewell.
Last year, with the UAE, the 34-year-old Norwegian did not compete in a big one for the first time since his neo-professional campaign in 2010. He only managed two victories, two stages of the Pro Series Deutschland Tour.
A balance that was not at the level of a champion of Europe, Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders and four times winner of the Tour de France stage, who added 20 victories in 2015. That is why he is self-critical and demanding for 2022.
“It depends on how things go in 2021, if I don’t I will get off my bike,” Kristoff told Norwegian television TV2. “I imagine continuing in the peloton for several more years, but I have to be at an appropriate level. 2021 was not good enough. I have the motivation and the desire to have fun, I need good results.”