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Big names retire from competitive snowsports

Thursday 29 April 2010

After an exciting Olympic and World Cup season several stars of the snowsports world have decided to hang up their skis and snowboards

Marco Büchel skied his last competitive race in a tuxedo and shorts
(image c/o www.fisalpine.com)

As reported in an article on www.fis-ski.com, this season’s snowboarding retirees include 35 year old Jasey Jay Anderson, Canada’s most decorated snowboarder with World Cup Snowboard Cross and Parallel Giant Slalom (PGS) titles to his name and an Olympic gold medalist on home soil in 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Other Olympic snowboard champions to retire following this season include Swiss rider Tanja Frieden who triumphantly stole the Snowboard Cross gold from a showboating Lindsey Jacobellis at the discipline’s inaugural Olympic outing in Turin in 2006.

Alpine Skiing is also saying goodbye to several racers including Liechtenstein's Marco Büchel, a participant in no fewer than six Winter Olympic Games from 1992 to 2010 and the oldest winner of a World Cup race aged 36 when he triumphed in the Super G in Kitzbuhel.

Büchel retired following the Super-G race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 11 March 2010, celebrating his last race by wearing a tuxedo with black shorts and stopping half way down on the course to chat to fans.

Skiing looked like it might lose Anja Paerson after the ski racer hinted this season she need to consider her future, however the Swedish star, who has won seven World Cup titles and a clutch of Olympic medals including Super Combined bronze in Whistler, has decided to continue in the sport.

Other retirees include Austrian freestlye skier Karin Huttary, credited as a pioneer in Ski Cross, and there are also athletes retiring across the Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined and Cross Country disciplines. For further details visit www.fis-ski.com.