Athletes Retirements Thread

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Andy Newell  Cross Country

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Italian alpin skiing athletes Nadia Fanchini and Elena Fanchini retired today 

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 Veronika Vitkova (biathlon) retires as well...  

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 Eddie Dawkins (Cycling)- 3 time world champion & Olympic silver medalist

 

 Mathias Boe (Badminton)- Olympic silver medalist, multiple world championship medals

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Russian  /ex-Korean   short track speed skating legend Viktor Ahn retires second time due to long-term knee injury. He retired in 2018 and return in 2019 attempting to persist until 2022 Olympics. Sadly he chose to retire again due to the injury and age.

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Cristian Savani (volleyball)

 

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Ilya Ilyin, two time gold medallist (but both revoke for doping), retired after Tokyo2020 postpone.

Weightlifting is a bit more clean

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 Paweł Twardosz

 Adam Cieślar

 Wojciech Marusarz (all nordic combined) suddenly retires  Our 8th placed team at 2019 World Championships is gone...

 

For now, in A team for 2020/2021 season we have only one athlete - Szczepan Kupczak.... 

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38 minutes ago, rybak said:

 Paweł Twardosz

 Adam Cieślar

 Wojciech Marusarz (all nordic combined) suddenly retires  Our 6th placed team at 2019 World Championships is gone...

 

For now, in A team for 2020/2021 season we have only one athlete - Szczepan Kupczak.... 

What the hell happened? This reaks of internal problems. Poland winter sports are fricken dismal when it comes to management right now.

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59 minutes ago, rybak said:

 Paweł Twardosz

 Adam Cieślar

 Wojciech Marusarz (all nordic combined) suddenly retires  Our 6th placed team at 2019 World Championships is gone...

 

For now, in A team for 2020/2021 season we have only one athlete - Szczepan Kupczak.... 

 

Wow, I knew Nordic combined has very tiny depth, but a team with two athletes I've never in my life heard of (and yes, I watch all the World Cups and always check results of Continental Cups) finishing 6th at the world championships says quite something for me  

 

Not good of course when 75% of the main team leaves.

 

Edit: wait, Marusarz was not in that team, Pawel Slowiok was and at least he sounds sort of familiar