By Greg Johnson
Euskaltel-Euskadi rider Roberto Laiseka announced his retirement from the sport yesterday at a press conference in Bizkaia, Bilbao, reports EiTB24. The Basque rider explained that his failure to recover from a long-standing knee injury, sustained at last year's Giro d'Italia, is one of the reasons behind his decision.
At 37-yead-old, Laiseka has spent his entire professional career, which spans 12 years, at Euskaltel-Euskadi. Laiseka's career achievements include stage victories in the Vuelta a Espana in 1999 and 2000 as well as the 2001 Tour de France. In more recent years Laiseka claimed the Mountain's Jersey at the 2005 Tour de Suisse.
