These ski stars parted ways in the winter

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He was one of the best downhill skiers of all time, the Swiss ball lightning finished after 16 years in Kitzbühel. Feuz’ Palmarès is impressive: 2022 Olympic Downhill Champion, 2017 World Downhill Champion, 4-time Crystal Ball winner 2018 to 2021). There are also 16 World Cup victories, 13 of them in the downhill (three Super-G). In the 2011/12 season, Feuz finished second in the overall World Cup.

With Caviezel, another Swiss stopped skiing. At the same time as the retirement, the 2017 World Championship bronze winner and brother of driver Gino announced that he would marry his fiancé in the summer. He’s got time now.

It was definitely the most surprising layoff of the ski winter: at the end of December 2022, Ösi star Matthias Mayer announced his immediate end to his career in front of the camera. A bang. Time and again there are rumors about a comeback of the three-time Olympic champion (1x downhill, 2x Super-G), most recently Mayer himself fueled the rumors with his visit to the World Cup final in Soldeu in March.

Ski: Olympic champion Matthias Mayer announces immediate resignation

In addition to Mayer, our eastern neighbor is also dealing with the dismissal of his 2017 Super-G World Champion and 2019 downhill shot winner. Schmidhofer is now devoting himself to training as a rehabilitation trainer.

Austria again. Another job change. Instead of a ski suit, Ramona Siebenhofer now wears a police uniform. “My body is no longer willing to take the ultimate risk. I go by my gut feeling and my heart,” says the 31-year-old goodbye to her sport. In 2019, the Austrian caused astonishment with her lightning-fast double victory: in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Siebenhofer won two descents within 24 hours. It should remain their only World Cup victories.

For years they have been regarded as the ski dream pair par excellence, together they have 461 World Cup starts (11 podiums, 2 wins each). The two have been side by side for 15 years, so it’s no surprise that the Canadian and the American are also stepping up together. They celebrate their retirement in a strange way: the Ga(g)non(g)s run in wedding dresses and tackle a slope.

Esther Paslier, who turns his back on the ski circus due to depression, is responsible for an emotional resignation. “Skiing faster is the most important thing. That exhausted me for months and eventually led to excess, to depression », the Frenchwoman admitted on her Instagram account in March. The 25-year-old never broke through at the World Cup. She is now using her resignation to make an appeal: “I encourage anyone who decides to try other ways to think broadly and not be afraid to try.”

Schmotz is not a big name, but in November last year the German caused quite a bit of hilarity. At the giant slalom in Killington, she accidentally opens the gate with her ski pole during the motivational ritual before the start – the time measurement begins. A month ago, the 29-year-old announced her retirement after multiple injuries.

Winter’s most recent retirement has – at least a little – Swiss connection: In 2017, the Finnish giant specialist celebrated his only top-ten finish in the World Cup. Where? in Adelaide.

Source : Blick

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