Athletes Retirements Thread

[Grassmarket 3,626]

 Sprinter Richard Kilty.  Best solo results were as a 60m runner where he was a World Champion.  Also brought a lot of discipline & hard truths to the British relay squad, which is often egotistical & slack.  Now working as a coach.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cg5dzl2r6l0o

Edited March 5 by Grassmarket

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 3/5/2025 at 9:52 PM, Grassmarket said:

 Sprinter Richard Kilty.  Best solo results were as a 60m runner where he was a World Champion.  Also brought a lot of discipline & hard truths to the British relay squad, which is often egotistical & slack.  Now working as a coach.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cg5dzl2r6l0o

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Ah, the man who went on absolute rants against athletics fans on social media and then quickly deleted his messages so he wouldn't look like an ass

 

Kinda thought he had retired a while back.

[Grassmarket 3,626]

London & Rio Olympic Taekwando Champion Jade Jones kwits TKD for boxing.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cdjyxxx03g3o

[Makedonas 2,200]

 Kristian Gkolomeev (swimming)

 

He specialised in the men's 50 freestyle, was 5th in both Tokyo and Paris, won a world silver in 2019 and many European medals including gold last year.

 

He went to the Olympics 4 times. He is still only 31 years old but hinted at Paris being the end for him so I guess it should not be surprising, though he is still in his top form and given how close he was to winning an Olympic medal the last two times, I was hoping he would try again in 2028...