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    MELANDRI ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT

    Aug 14, 2019 3 minutes
    Photos: Russell Colvin

    After an international racing career spanning more than two decades, Marco Melandri will retire from full-time competition at the end of this year.

    The 37-year-old made the announcement on 9 July (the eve of this year’s Imola WSBK round) but had decided back in March that this season would be his last.

    “The decision to retire was a very difficult one for me to make”, Melandri said. “I'd been thinking about it for some time and, before the Imola race, I finally decided to call it a day at the end of the

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