The 74 -year -old man is quite known for hosting the BBC Sports Show, see him cover the life of rugby, golf, motor racing and rowing.
Rider also presented the Sportsnight Award and the Sports Personality Award of the Year, together with the host of the BBC coverage of all Olympic Games from 1988 to 2004.
In 2005, Rider left the BBC and moved to ITV, where since then he has remained and organized coverage for formula one and world drinks for football and rugby.
Steve Rider will move away from television this summer
The sport legend plans to conclude its 48 -year -old transmission race summer and plans a discreet departure when it has its final work in front of the camera in June.
Speaking to Mailonline, Rider said: “I will only slide.”
Adding: “The greatest emotion as you enter the last two minutes of something is, ‘for the love of God, do not do it’, because you would be thinking about that for the next 20 years!
“I am probably overcome by my welcome. I have a bone greatly with the places that the race has tasks. But it is about 50 years, so the cracks are shown!”
The departure of the sports station follows its diagnosis of previously announced prostate cancer, which it shared when you appear at the BBC breakfast.
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Rider shared that it was “incredible lucky” that the disease was found early, and immediately underwent surgery to prevent cancer spreading.
The test was done after a close friend was diagnosed with prostate cancer and after his own checking results they were a “little high.”
Speaking at the BBC breakfast, Rider said: “They took a look and said:” We are going to operate in two weeks. “Without playing.
