Canadian cyclist Lyne Bessette (T-Mobile) announced her retirement Wednesday. Bessette has has a rough 2006, suffering a shoulder injury on March 15 while training on the mountain bike course of the Commonwealth Games and subsequently not competing. Bessette crashed in January at the Geelong Tour in Australia, and last week pulled out of the Tour de l'Aude .
The thirty-one year old native of Knowlton, Quebec excelled in many facets of cycling, winning national titles in road, time trial and cyclocross as well as the gold medal in the 1998 Commonwealth Games road race. Before racing for the T-Mobile team this year, Bessette rode for the Quark and Saturn teams. It was on the Saturn team where she met her husband Tim Johnson.
