After the announcement of Yaroslav's retirement at the end of 2022 (see the news here), Kulhavy leaves Specialized and finds a new technical sponsor namely BMC! So officially it wasn't a real abandonment from the mtb world in general but only from cross country, since now the Czechoslovakian athlete will be engaged in X-Terra and appeared in great shape in the marathon world cup in Nove Mesto, where only a problem with the quick shifter stopped him while he was in the leading group.
Jaroslav Kulhavy has won everything and more: in his palmares we find Olympic Games, World Championships XCO and Marathon, World Cups and European Championships. An achievement that only 4 more bikers in the entire history of MTB can boast. His last years were dedicated to Marathon, where he won the Absa Cape Epic and the World Championship.
For 2023, Kulhavy has prepared a race calendar that includes bike-marathon, gravel and triathlon events.