According to Gazzetta dello Sport, Cadel Evans will ride the Tour Down Under and the Great Ocean Road Race in the beginning of 2015 season as his final events before hanging up his wheels on February 1. The decision didn’t come as any surprise after the 37-year old veteran decided to call a press conference to announce his future just before the start of the World Championships and earlier this seasons there were strong indications from his team that he would like to call it a career in front of home crowd in Australia.

The Italian newspaper suggested that Evans will ride Santos Tour Down Under as his final WorldTour event and continue to the 1.1-ranked Great Ocean Road Race as the event takes place near his home in Melbourne.

Reportedly, the 37-year old Australian will take over an ambassador role at BMC afterwards. Evans has been connected with the Swiss squad since 2010 and claimed almost all his greatest victories in their outfit, including the 2011 edition of the Tour de France, Tirreno-Adriatico (2011), Criterium International (2012), Giro del Trentino (2014) or Fleche Wallonne (2010).

Even though it became clear this year that the Australian veteran is no longer capable of handling difficulties of three-week stage events, he bounced back from last two seasons hampered by virus infection and proved that he was still capable of winning races: he took the queen stage and general classification at the Giro del Trentino and won two stages at the Tour of Utah.

“There’s a couple of blots – in 2004, 2012 and 2013 – but over 18 years, it’s not too bad of a career,” Evans said at the Giro d’Italia this May.

“In 2012, a virus really knocked me out. I had to take such a break to recover from that. I was more than two months off the bike, and that ruined my 2013 season.

Evans lined-up as one of the biggest favorites at the Giro d’Italia – his biggest objective of 2014 season and enjoyed a stint in the pink jersey, but clearly faded in the last week of the event. Despite performing well in North American races, the former Tour de France champion appeared at the Vuelta a Espana in a support of Samuel Sanchez and openly admitted that it was new and refreshing experience for him.

Without any doubts Evans will be eager to end his beautiful professional career with victories in home races, but before it happens he will line-up at the World Championships road race in Ponferrada as one of the protected men in the truly formidable Australian squad. The BMC rider has proved in the past that he is capable of winning the rainbow jersey as he won the title in 2009 and the hilly route in Spain suits him down to the ground. However, according to Gazzetta dello Sport Evans will call it a career regardless of the result obtained at Worlds.

“At the age of 34, I became the oldest post-war Tour de France winner in history!” Evans told Cycling Weekly in 2011. “I am kind of proud of that.”