Ale-Jet pulls 💞the curtain after 18 seasons and more than 180 wins
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Alessandro Petacchi wins on the Via Roma in 2005 (Image credit: Sirotti)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) giving hi🐽s bike the fi🍃nal inspection (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Alessandro Petacchꦜi (LPR Brake)💯 having a bit of fun with his teammates (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) wins the sprint wh🌌ile Freire (orange) shakes his head. He was almost brought down by McEwen, who unclipped in the furious sprint. (Image credit: Régis Garnier)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) takes it. (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) rides up the Kemmel (Image credit: Luc Claessen)
The four jersey classificat𒈔ion winners: Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank), Alberto Contador (Astana🌠), Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre) and Anthony Charteau (Bbox) (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
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Alessandro Petacchꦺi (Lampre) doesn't do Paris-Roubaix for a good rea🥃son. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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💟Alessandro Petacc🐲hi (Lampre) takes the sprint on stage 2. (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre) w🌃i✃th his not-quite matching green shorts and jersey. (Image credit: www.ispaphoto.com)
Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) wins the mad dash to the line. Just behind McEwen unclipped and bumped into Freire (orange jersey). Both stayed�🐲� upright while Zabel celebrated the team-mates win behind. (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
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Nice biceps, Ale-Jet - Pet🔥acchi salutes rather emphatically after his second Vuelta win (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Two - Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) triumphs once again, with Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole, L, unseen) and Erik Zabel (🍃T-Mobile, R) second and third. (Image credit: Unipublic)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) looks good in the fishes of the points jersey, but won't win it o൲verall (Image credit: Unipublic)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) warms up (Image credit: Shane Stokes/gxiaowu.com)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) and iPod (Image credit: Shane Stokes/gxiaowu.com)
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Alessandro Petacchi is ecstatic (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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An emotional Alessandro Petacchi is cong💦ratulated by a team-mate (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
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The cilamino jersey of Petacchi is nestled into the ༺leadout train (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
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Alessandro Petacchi was oಞn hand to watch the Giro - he can only watch as he's currently suspended. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Alessandro Petacchi's Fassa ♍Bortolo Pinarel𝔍lo Dogma. (Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
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Probably the ❀highlꦉight of Alessandro Petacchi's day (Image credit: Sirotti)
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Detail🍰ed rear view of Petacchi's Pinarello Dogma - note that unique shape of the magnesium chainstays and Onda carbon fibre seatstays. (Image credit: Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews)
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Tom Boonen, Juan Anಌtonio Flecha and Alessandro Ballan were held up in their pursuit by a train in Paris-Roubaix in 2006 (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Basso and Petacchi pose on the start line. (Image credit: Elmar Krings)
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Classification winners (l-r) Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier Duval-Prodir), Dan🅷ilo Di Luca (Liquigas), Andy Schleck (Team CSC) and Alessandro Petacchi (Milram). (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
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Mark Cavend🍬ish (HTC Highroad) and Alessandro Petac🌱chi (Lampre-ISD) do battle. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Mario 𝓰Cipollini (Liquigas-Bianchi) and Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo) together early on in thꦗe race (Image credit: AFP Photo)
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Unbelievable for Alessandro Petacchi (Milram). (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Robbie McEwen (RadioSha♉ck) and Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-ISD) have shar💝ed many a sprint dual. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The race for second was very close between Fran Ventoso (Movistar) and Alessandro Petacchi (Lampr💖e) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The elation set 🍌in quickly after Petacchi realised he had won (Image credit: AFP Photo)
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Petacchi and Hondo before the start (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Three time winner Zabel on the le♔ft shares a laugh with first time winner and team-mate Petacchi. Zabel led out the Italian. (Image credit: Régis Garnier)
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Freire (l) and Petacchi fight it out. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Alessandro Petacchi has won 22 Giro d'𒀰Italia stages in his career. (Image credit: AFP)
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Ivan Basso, Alessandro Petacchi and Jurgen Van den Broeck imbibe in som🌠e of the local brew. (Image credit: Elmar Krings)
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Alessandro Petacchi 🦩and Damiano Cun♈ego in the studio with their bikes. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Spri♕nt greats Alessandro Petacchi and Mario Cipollini ꦜpose together at the finish of stage 10. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Ale✱ssandro Petacch♒i and Danilo Di Luca at the 2007 Giro d'Italia (Image credit: Sirotti)
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Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) and his wife. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Just months after his 39th birthday 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alessandro 'Ale-Jet' Petacchi announced he would 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:retire with immediate effect. 'The Gentleman' as he was affectionately called due to his quiet nature and app💜arent dislike for the hustle and bustle of bunch sprinting, enjoyed a long and prosperous 18-season career and has more than 180 victories to show for it.
The exact number of career wins is something which even 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Petacchi disputes but the Italian fast-man wa♔s undoubtedly one of the fastest of his time. Even in his twilight years he manageജd to pull-off some of his biggest achievements including winning two stages and the green points classification at the 2010 Tour de France - at the tender age of 36.
The Italian had slowed his winning rate over the past few 🐼seasons but managed to still pick up enough results to ensue his passion and desire to con✨tinue competing.
The following gallery is a showcase of the man who holds 48 grand tour stage victories, the point classification at the Giro d'Italia (2004), Tour de France (2010) and Vuelta a España (2005) along with victories at Milan San-Remo (2005) and Paris-Tours (2007). Petacchi is not without a few black marks against his name but the now retired sprinter can still look back on a prosperous career that was beyonܫd what he ever expected.
"My career has been full of satisfactions and enriched by all the most important victories that a rider like me could ever have 𒅌aimed for," said Petacchi in a statement released by his team. "I feel it's time to dedicate time for myself and to go in search for new interests."
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