The Canyon-SRAM introduced on Wednesday that Kasia Niewiadoma has ended her 2024 season and won’t compete on this weekend’s UCI Gravel World Championships.
The Polish rider received the Tour de France Femmes and La Flèche Wallonne in the course of the street season and completed second on the Tour of Flanders and eighth on the Olympic Games in Paris.
“After such an intense yr, or for instance summertime, stuffed with plenty of feelings, ups and downs, I made a decision to shut my 2024 season now and skip defending my [gravel world] title,” Niewiadoma stated within the social media publish.
“I wish to give attention to restoration, time spent with my shut ones, and celebrating every part that occurred this yr! I want all of the individuals plenty of luck, and thanks for the immense assist I’ve been getting from all of you!”
Niewiadoma received the Tour de France Femmes by simply 4 seconds, holding off a long-range assault by 2023 Tour de France winner Demi Vollering on the ultimate stage to the summit of l’Alpe d’Huez.
The victory adopted a renewed vigour for the 30-year-old after her world title within the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships, the place she bought the higher of Vollering at Silvia Persico (Italy) in her first elite ladies’s gravel race.
She went on to win the Big Sugar gravel race on the finish of final season, calling the race “insanely laborious”, exhibiting that her new coaching schedule that she had adopted was working.
After her first Classics win in 5 years at La Flèche Wallonne, she stated she hoped it might encourage folks to maintain pursuing success.
“It’s all in regards to the religion … if you realize what you are able to and you do not let anybody make you’re feeling much less or should you do not let any failure make you’re feeling like you do not deserve one thing then something’s attainable,” she stated earlier this yr.
