Another helpful commenter reminded me that Norwegian Tore Ruud Hofstad also retired this past July. Â My results for Hofstad stretch back to World Junior races in 1998 up to his retirement in 2010. Â I think one of the reasons I may have overlooked him is that he didn’t really race much last season. Â In fact, […]
Also tagged retirement, tore ruud hofstadI can’t believe I forgot about the dominant Estonian skier Kristina Smigun-Vaehi. Â For individual events (distance and sprint), her stats are amazing: three Olympic medals (2 Gold), four World Championship medals and forty-nine World Cup podiums. Â 106 of her 161 World Cup results were top ten finishes. Â She might not have as much Olympic hardware […]
Also tagged kristina smigun-vaehi, retirementI thought it would be nice to collect all the cross-country skier retirement posts in one place, in case you missed some along the way. Â So here they are… Rene Sommerfeldt (GER) Sabina Valbusa (ITA) Anna Olson (SWE) Sara Renner (CAN) Virpi Kuitunen (FIN) Claudia Nystad (GER) Reto Burgermeister (SUI) Milan Sperl (CZE) Laurence Rochat […]
Also tagged retirementBiathletes retire too! Â I will be the first to admit that I know a lot less about biathlon than cross country, though, so these athlete profile posts for biathletes will be as much for my benefit as yours. Martina Beck is (was) a very fast German biathlete. Â The International Biathlon Union has a nice article […]
Also tagged biathlon, martina beck, retirementWho? Â Yeah, I’d never heard of her either. Â One of the coolest parts of working on this website is learning how much I didn’t know about international ski racing. The fact that I don’t know about this Swiss skier doesn’t really say anything about her (she’s done 115 World Cup races, 7 World Championship races […]
Also tagged laurence rochat, retirementThe career retrospectives took an unintentional week off last Friday due my being distracted by the Tour. Milan who? Â Again, a skier who’s name I should probably know, but did not. Â He’s a Czech skier who’d been competing internationally since around 2000. Particularly since he looks like a fun guy. Sperl won a Bronze medal […]
Also tagged milan sperl, retirementThanks to NordicXplained I’ve been alerted to several more athletes retiring after the 2009-2010 season. Â These next three may be somewhat less famous than the other skiers I profiled, but that doesn’t make them less important or less interesting! Â For instance…
Also tagged retirement, reto burgermeister