47-year-old Óscar Sevilla won't be stopping anytime soon: "We are already thinking about 2024"

Óscar Sevilla doesn't stop. The 47-year-old Spaniard has in fact announced his intention to race at least another year and will do so again with Team Medellin – EPM, a team with which he has been racing since 2013.

This year's winner of the Tour of Hainan, which thus brings him back to winning among the professionals, five years after his victory at the Vuelta a San Juan, the everlasting Spanish climber enjoyed another high-level season in the Colombian national calendar, also showing off in other continental races such as the Vuelta Bantrab he won, the Tour of the Gila finished in second place after winning the last stage, and the Tour de Panama won with two stage successes.

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"I will continue to race for another year with Team Medellín-EPM," he explains to Revista Mundo Ciclistico. "At the moment we are organizing the calendars, the races, we don't know which riders will continue but we can't wait. We are already working on our physical preparation, in the gym, running and we are already thinking about 2024, to have fun."

"I think I'll take each year as it comes, month by month, enjoying what I like most, which is cycling, and giving my contribution, hoping to have a good year. It will be difficult to match 2023, because it was a very good year in terms of results, but we hope that it is satisfying and that in the end we are satisfied with what we do."

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