Cancellara announces he will retire after 2016 season

The 2016 season will be the final year of Fabian Cancellara's career as a professional cyclist, the Trek rider announced at the annual Swiss cycling awards. The 34-year-old had an injury-interrupted season, including fractured vertebrae from an E3 Harelbeke crash that saw him miss the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. A crash at the Tour de France while wearing the yellow jersey saw Cancellara fracture vertebrae a second time, with illness then ruling him out of the World Championships in Richmond.

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