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Cromwell's road career ended in a support role, not a farewell win
Tiffany Cromwell announced via Instagram that the Philadelphia Cycling Classic on August 30 was her last road race, closing out 2026 as her final season. At that race she rode in support as Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto delivered the win to Chiara Consonni, rather than taking a farewell result of her own. She chose when to stop, not what her last road race would look like.
Cromwell said the timing was entirely hers: «It's nice that I can choose when. It's not that I didn't have options for a contract or that I had an injury that stopped me. It was just me.» There was no public signal before Philadelphia that it would be the end. Yet she called it the right way to go: «It was a great race to be able to close out this chapter of my career.»
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