Grégory Baugé, nine times world champion in track cycling, announced Sunday on France Televisions to give up the Tokyo Olympics and end his career.
The French racer, who will be 36 at the end of the month, is the most successful French rider of his generation with four gold medals in individual speed, the queen event of velodromes.
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