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Athletes Retirements Thread


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  • 2 weeks later...

:GER decathlete Michael Schrader has retired. He won silver at the World Championships 2013 in Moscow. In an accident in Pole Vault 2016 he was severely injured and didn't compete since. And after another harmstring injury while trying for a comeback he retired for good.

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Well, it's been brewing for a long time. This time our very own Rūta Meilutytė :LTU has announced her retirement.

 

It's been years of battling depression due to the pressure of the Lithuanian public as well as years of not being able to swim as fast as when she was 15.

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2 hours ago, Werloc said:

Well, it's been brewing for a long time. This time our very own Rūta Meilutytė :LTU has announced her retirement.

 

It's been years of battling depression due to the pressure of the Lithuanian public as well as years of not being able to swim as fast as when she was 15.

Sport and life nowadays...when someone has to retire at 22 because pressure was too big.

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Ladislav Nagy. The (until yesterday) last active Slovak Ice Hockey World Champion from 2002 officially and definitively retired yesterday after his last careers match, his 122nd National Team cap.

 

Just for the story, Košice born player and the city hockey legend, played his slast match as captain of his National Team in his home city arena in front of home crowd in his birth place. And yes, he scored the winning goal of the match.

 

That´s what I call retire in style.

 

here the 2 and half minute video after the yesterdays match. definitely worth to watch. Thank you Laci for everything ! Thank you champion !

 

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hace 3 horas, Werloc dijo:

Well, it's been brewing for a long time. This time our very own Rūta Meilutytė :LTU has announced her retirement.

 

It's been years of battling depression due to the pressure of the Lithuanian public as well as years of not being able to swim as fast as when she was 15.

 

It's fine. She has nothing to prove, she already earned the biggest honor a swimmer can achieve. Better to move on, stop suffering and think in other stuff as she is still too young for life. Those who criticize now will be making her homages in 10 years.

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9 hours ago, ChandlerMne said:

Sport and life nowadays...when someone has to retire at 22 because pressure was too big.

Yeah, with the Internet it's now as easy as ever to get to them.

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7 hours ago, dcro said:

Didn't she failed a doping test last week or something?

Yes, she didn't show up, but there were speculations that she did it on purpose, to give herself an out of the sport, but then she decided to end her career all-together.

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