Athletes Retirements Thread

[heywoodu 16,470]

This is not a full retirement, but kind of a break/sabbatical due to...reasons.

 

 For those who have been following @brunamoura's journey towards and last February eventually, finally, at the Olympics, this might be an interesting update. The 2030 Olympics are still in her sight, but next year's world championships in February seem...unlikely.

 

She still needs to do at least two surgeries, one on her nasal cavities due to a chronic inflammation that has been bothering her for years, and one on her legs. In the Olympic season she struggled immensely with pain in her legs, which in the freestyle technique made her sometimes just not even able to move and therefore finish or even start the races. The Olympic 10k freestyle was hard and painful, but she managed to get through it. We knew she was dealing with compartment syndrome, which is quite serious and certainly needs to be dealt with surgically, but the recovery time for that meant that doing so during the season would likely jeopardize the Olympics - again.

 

The plan was to do the surgeries this year, but that's unlikely to happen now...

 

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Apparently they might pose too much of a risk to pregnant women  Which is a situation which, after two positive tests one and a half month ago and a second echo today, we really can't go around anymore  

 

[hoversaBR 884]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This is not a full retirement, but kind of a break/sabbatical due to...reasons.

 

 For those who have been following @brunamoura's journey towards and last February eventually, finally, at the Olympics, this might be an interesting update. The 2030 Olympics are still in her sight, but next year's world championships in February seem...unlikely.

 

She still needs to do at least two surgeries, one on her nasal cavities due to a chronic inflammation that has been bothering her for years, and one on her legs. In the Olympic season she struggled immensely with pain in her legs, which in the freestyle technique made her sometimes just not even able to move and therefore finish or even start the races. The Olympic 10k freestyle was hard and painful, but she managed to get through it. We knew she was dealing with compartment syndrome, which is quite serious and certainly needs to be dealt with surgically, but the recovery time for that meant that doing so during the season would likely jeopardize the Olympics - again.

 

The plan was to do the surgeries this year, but that's unlikely to happen now...

 

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Apparently they might pose too much of a risk to pregnant women  Which is a situation which, after two positive tests one and a half month ago and a second echo today, we really can't go around anymore  

 

That's great, congratulations to both of you! I wish her a good recovery. 

[hckošice 16,643]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

This is not a full retirement, but kind of a break/sabbatical due to...reasons.

 

 For those who have been following @brunamoura's journey towards and last February eventually, finally, at the Olympics, this might be an interesting update. The 2030 Olympics are still in her sight, but next year's world championships in February seem...unlikely.

 

She still needs to do at least two surgeries, one on her nasal cavities due to a chronic inflammation that has been bothering her for years, and one on her legs. In the Olympic season she struggled immensely with pain in her legs, which in the freestyle technique made her sometimes just not even able to move and therefore finish or even start the races. The Olympic 10k freestyle was hard and painful, but she managed to get through it. We knew she was dealing with compartment syndrome, which is quite serious and certainly needs to be dealt with surgically, but the recovery time for that meant that doing so during the season would likely jeopardize the Olympics - again.

 

The plan was to do the surgeries this year, but that's unlikely to happen now...

 

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Apparently they might pose too much of a risk to pregnant women  Which is a situation which, after two positive tests one and a half month ago and a second echo today, we really can't go around anymore  

 

Awesome. Congrats