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A few minutes ago Andreas Birnbacher has announced his retirement via his Facebook page. The Bavarian thirty-four appender & agrave; skiing and rifle to the nail at the end of the season.
Tuesday 8 March 2016 4 minutes reading time
These are the words written by the German: "Lately, many have asked me what I would do after the Oslo World Cup. Now & egrave; the time to respond. After the shut memorize options season, my career as a biathlete. & Egrave; important to stop a Positivity, knowing they can still fight with the best in the world, without being forced to retire from his body.
In recent years, I realized that for me the men's tour the 'air is becoming more & ugrave; rarefied and, also due to the many injuries, not & egrave; always it has been easy to come back in top form. Despite all of the past two seasons have managed to achieve positive performance, defending myself in the context of the World Cup, although I do not presented on the podium with the same frequency of the past. Simply, I realized that & egrave; the right time to quit. The 'et & agrave; surely & egrave; a factor, but not & egrave; The only. If I wanted to stay at the top, I would have to make the decision to train even more & ugrave; hard and just focus on biathlon. It would be a very selfish choice that, as the father of two children, I could not do.
I have great memories of my many achievements, but at the same time do not forget the failures. Sports & egrave; probably because of pi & ugrave; beautiful can exist when things are going your way, but at the same time can memorize options be extremely cruel because & eacute; few have any idea how hard workout can be defeated by a single competition.
After the season, I riposer memorize options for a while '' with my family. After which & eacute; will search memorize options new targets. First thing I enroll memorize options all''Universit & agrave; Sports in Cologne, in such a way to get her degree as manager. I want to put to use my experience and help more & ugrave biathletes; young people grow, so will remain memorize options in quest''ambiente ".
Birnbacher career has won 6 wins, all concentrated between March 2011 and December 2012. A total of & egrave; finished on the podium 16 times, including the 'World Championship silver in the mass start of 2007.
In addition to the World Cup he has been awarded 5 medals with relay races, a 'gold (mixed 2008) and four bronze.
In the season 2011 - '' 12 finished third overall standings of the World Cup and won the Cup of specialty & agrave; the mass start.
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