Athletes Retirements Thread

[Monzanator 4,490]

Well, so much talk about recording longer ski flying mark than men and now she cites "lack of motivation". She probably realized her best days are behind her and the youngsters will repeatedly beat her.

[Prashanth 175]

Sakshi Malik  Olympic Bronze Medalist has announced retirement from wrestling.

Edited December 27, 2023 by Prashanth

[heywoodu 15,124]

On 12/13/2023 at 5:20 PM, Grassmarket said:

Was robbed of her career by the overwhelming presence of intersex athletes in her event.  And of course when she complained about it she was bullied into silence by the Twitter mob. Let's hope she's the last woman to be treated that way.  

Didn't know there was controversy around for example Melissa Bishop, who beat her in two global finals in two years  

[phelps 7,667]

Athletics, ex-world champion Bosse calls time on athletics career 

 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231226-france-s-ex-world-champion-bosse-calls-time-on-athletics-career

[heywoodu 15,124]

23 minutes ago, phelps said:

Athletics, ex-world champion Bosse calls time on athletics career 

 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231226-france-s-ex-world-champion-bosse-calls-time-on-athletics-career

Wow, that's long ago since I heard that name  

[Grassmarket 3,388]

2 hours ago, phelps said:

Athletics, ex-world champion Bosse calls time on athletics career 

 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231226-france-s-ex-world-champion-bosse-calls-time-on-athletics-career

Back to being just another employee, then.  

[Dragon 1,843]

 

[Josh 10,480]

 Hali Flickinger (swimming)

 

2x Olympic bronze medalist at Tokyo 2020 in women’s 200m butterfly and women’s 400m individual medley, along with the Gwangju 2019/Budapest 2022 silver medalist in women’s 200m butterfly.  

[Olympian1010 7,971]

Carissa Moore  will retire from competitive surfing after the Paris 2024 Olympics.

[Josh 10,480]

 Peter Prevc (ski jumping) 
 

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