Alpine climber Matthias Meyer adds: – I miss the spark

Alpine climber Matthias Meyer adds: – I miss the spark
Thanking himself: Matthias Mayer has retired, just months after taking Olympic gold in the Super-G in Beijing.

Three-time Olympic champion Matthias Mayer (32) surprises with the immediate subtraction.

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Announce this on the Swiss website SRF Thursday morning.

– It’s my time. I lack the spark right now, Meyer says.

Recently, in February, the Austrian took Olympic gold in super-G during the Beijing Winter Games, in the race Alexander Amodt Kilde earned his first medal of the tournament his bronze.

This season, Mayer has shown that he is still among the best in the world, with two World Cup podium finishes.

Mayer is a legend in alpine sports, becoming the first to win gold in three consecutive Olympics.

In addition to the aforementioned super-G gold in 2022, Mayer also won the super-G in Pyeongchang in 2018 and the downhill in Sochi in 2014.

Mayer’s shelving of his skis means that the two Olympic winners in the fastest sports from Beijing will not be seen soon at first. Earlier in December, Swiss Beat Feuz—February’s Olympic downhill gold winner—reported He gives up After the descent of Kitzbühel on January 21, 2023.

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