The Austrian ski jumper Gregor Schlierenzauer finished his career. The record World Cup winner attracted the final line at 31 years.
Gregor Schlierenzauer looked smiling in the sunset and casually showed the Victory sign. Every end is a new beginning, wrote the 31-year-old, undisputed one of the largest ski jumpers in history, on Tuesday at this photo at Instagram. The Austrian seemed relieved when he finished his unique career after years of success, but also disappointments and setbacks - and dared to jump into a new life.
It was a unique and emotion-intensive journey that goes on differently, Schlierenzauer wrote on his website: Active performance sports has kept me in the past 15 years with all its heights and depths in motion, fully filled up and sustainably shaped.
However, the heights in the career of the Gregor Schlierenzauer lie back for some time, most recently, the career of the Tyrolean was shaped by depths. Also weakened by a corona disease, the six-time world champion collected only eight World Cuppieces in the past winter, in February, the record World Cup winner also tore the cruciate ligament.
Schlieri turned thoughts. In May, the former golden boy was deleted from the cadles of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV), the prospects for the upcoming Olympic winter were anything but promising.
Gregor Schlierenzauer: Time feels right
Through the injury break, I had enough time and the necessary distance to work out and looking past, where I am now, he wrote, the career end was not easy for him, but the decision feels like the time right.
When his star started, Schlierenzauer was just 16 years old. At the Tournee 2006/07, the teenager won the jumping in Oberstdorf as well as Bishopshofen and thus conquered the hearts of the Austrian ski jump fans in the storm. With 24 he had already collected 53 World Cup victories - nobody has been added since then.
Then follow stalls, mental problems, injury worries. Schlierenzauer had long since been able to be in sporty pension, he had had enough opportunities to stop. In 2013, for example, when the team Olympic champion of Vancouver and four-time ski flight world champions was a complete one with his sixth World Cup title and third tour success. 2016, when psychic problems and a cruciate ligament rupture paralyzed him. Or in 2018, as he burned out from the World Cup.
Gregor Schlierenzauer: Olympic victory in singles is missing
But Schlierenzauer continued to fight - without success. The cooperation with the former national coach Werner Schuster did not bring the hoped-for trend. If I look back, I see an emotional journey that has shifted me boundaries, but also shot me limits, said Schlierzauer s balance.
Now the ski jump circus loses one of his biggest athletes. Schlierzauer have raised his sport on a new level , wrote his German companion of Severin friend. Only an Olympic mail in singles remained denied him.
And now? My fire, which always burned fully for the sport, now burns for new tasks that are there and waiting for me.
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Finally, Schlierenzauer said deliberately again, - where and whenever - I m looking forward to it!
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