Paris (AFP)
Austrian skier Anna Veith, 2014 super-G Olympic champion in Sochi and double winner of the Alpine Ski World Cup in 2014 and 2015, decided on Saturday to end her career at 30.
"My dreams for the future have changed in recent years, which is why I want to end my skiing career," said Anna Veith, also three-time world champion in three different disciplines, in an interview with Austrian public television ORF.
In fourteen Alpine Ski World Cup seasons, the Austrian won 15 races and climbed on 46 podiums. She has twice won the big crystal globe (2014 and 2015), an award promised to the winner of the general classification of the World Cup.
She has 3 world titles - one in combined in 2011, one in giant slalom in 2015 and one in super-G in 2015 - and an Olympic title, that of the super-G of Sochi-2014.
Her serious injury in the fall of 2015 to her right knee (rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, the internal lateral ligament and the patellar tendon) took her away from the slopes all winter 2016 and she never fully regained her level of before. She still won a last medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018, in silver in super-G.
With Anna Veith, Austrian Alpine skiing records the retirement of its second triumphant headliner of the 2010s, just eight months after the announcement of the end of career of Marcel Hirscher, eight-time winner of the World Cup alpine skiing (2012-2019) and five-time world champion.
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