Athletes Retirements Thread

[Olympian1010 7,971]

Not sure about the validity of this, but a great career nonetheless.

 

[hckošice 14,822]

 

Another legend officially retired. Well, he did not play since 2017 after back surgery for a herniated disc, but yesterday his tweet made it official.

 

Marián Gáborík

2x Olympian 2006 & 2010,

one of the very few players who played two World Cups of Hockey 2004 & 2016 (Silver) and 6 World Championships Tournaments. Junior WCh 2000 bronze medalist.

 

Huge NHL star where he played more than 20 years. (1035 regular-season games in the NHL and had 407 goals and 815 points in 17 seasons. He scored 30 or more goals seven times and is fifth in scoring in NHL history among Slovakian players. He won the fastest skater contest at his first All-Star Game in 2003 and was named MVP of the All-Star Game in 2012 in Ottawa.)

 

 

 

 

 

Ďakujeme "Majo"

 

[Olympian1010 7,971]

 

[Vic Liu 1,682]

  Badminton Tokyo OG silver medalist Li Junhui announced retirement due to constant injuries on his Weibo account. Good luck in the new chapter of life.

[vinipereira 3,240]

David Moura (Judo)

 

World silver medalist and Pan Am Games champion, never got a chance to be an Olympian thanks to Rafael Silva competing in the same weight class.

[rybak 3,217]

 

[Werloc 3,164]

 Lithuania

 

Simona Krupeckaitė has announced that she will retire in UCI Champions League event on November 27th in Panevėžys, Lithuania.

 

Simona is a five time Olympian (shared record with Virgilijus Alekna and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė), 2 time World Champion, 3 time European Champion, she still holds two World Records and she has countless silver and bronze medals from all major championships, yet only the olympic medal has eluded her.

 

She is very well known in the cycling-track world and Lithuania probably will never have a cyclist that accomplished as Krupeckaitė was.

 

Sad to see her go, but as people say, don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened and she has awarded so many wonderful sport memories from my childhood to adulthood. Will always be one of the greats. 

[Werloc 3,164]

On 11/22/2021 at 1:44 AM, Werloc said:

 Lithuania

 

Simona Krupeckaitė has announced that she will retire in UCI Champions League event on November 27th in Panevėžys, Lithuania.

 

Simona is a five time Olympian (shared record with Virgilijus Alekna and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė), 2 time World Champion, 3 time European Champion, she still holds two World Records and she has countless silver and bronze medals from all major championships, yet only the olympic medal has eluded her.

 

She is very well known in the cycling-track world and Lithuania probably will never have a cyclist that accomplished as Krupeckaitė was.

 

Sad to see her go, but as people say, don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened and she has awarded so many wonderful sport memories from my childhood to adulthood. Will always be one of the greats. 

Nevermind, she is going to be racing in UCI Champions League and she will retire after the league is finished. 

[phelps 7,670]

 Federica Pellegrini (swimming)

 

game over, guys!

 

the last 50 meters (actually not a race, but a party with some of her historical rivals and a touching memory of Camille Muffat)...

 

 

thank you, Federica for all the emotions...

[Grassmarket 3,403]

Another swimmer, Hannah Miley of Team . Won a lot of medals, swam a lot of meets, but was often an eternal second behind Katinka Hosszu.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/59488423