{"id":12737,"date":"2012-01-02T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enduro.nl\/?p=12737"},"modified":"2012-01-02T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:45:51","slug":"mika-ahola-met-pensioen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/12737\/mika-ahola-met-pensioen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika Ahola met pensioen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bron: ABC.<\/a> After announcing a new challenge by signing with the new team JotaGas, the 5 time World Champion Mika AHOLA (SF) has finally decided to retire.\u00a0It is a great champion who’s leaving the Enduro World, here is his press release:
\n“After 21 years of Enduro competitions at the age of 37 I have come to a decision that took a lot of self-examination and soul-searching. The outcome was that I don\u2019t have anymore enough ambition to continue so I will retire from racing. I have given everything I\u2019ve got for this sport and although it has taken much, it has given me back more than I could have ever imagined when I started racing.<\/p>\n

First I won everything in my homeland, Finland, and become the fastest snow rider in the world. Then I threw myself in the world championships riding for different Italian teams and proved myself to be fast but 5 times landing just one position short of a world champion\u2019s title.<\/p>\n

Then, against all odds I started winning world titles at the age when most talked about retiring. It has been a hell of a ride: 5 consecutive world titles won in all three categories and the last one won as the oldest champion of the history! With these new world records set on 2011 I feel my ambition for this sport completely satisfied. You can add up also 3 overall champion\u2019s titles even though FIM hasn\u2019t recognized overall titles since 2004. I have been also the fastest rider overall at the I.S.D.E. 3 times and 7 times I have been also a rider of Finland\u2019s winning team.<\/p>\n

My ambition for this sport has been completely satisfied and I feel like it\u2019s time for me to move on and see what else the world has to offer than racing! Finally, I want to thank all the people who have supported me throughout my racing career and all the riders I have been battling with!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bron: ABC. After announcing a new challenge by signing with the new team JotaGas, the 5 time World Champion Mika AHOLA (SF) has finally decided to retire.\u00a0It is a great champion who’s leaving the Enduro World, here is his press release: “After 21 years of Enduro competitions at the age of 37 I have come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laatste-nieuws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enduro.nl\/wordpress-enduronlnewsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}