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The Italian champion provided the official decision not to retire from the world of biathlon today during an event with the sponsor Rizzoli at Verona Fiere.
Wednesday 4 May 2022 3 minutes reading time
The blue biathlon will still be able to count on Dorothea Wierer, for a 2022/23 season which should be the last of the career of the two-time World Cup winner and who, last February, took away the great satisfaction of the individual Olympic medal that she still lacked.
The fear that “Doro” might leave existed at the end of a year that was not easy for her, but the South Tyrolean star has dissolved all reservations. Interviewed this morning by his colleague Alberto Dolfin, during an event organized by his personal sponsor Rizzoli Cucine at Verona Fiere, Wierer has formalized the continuation of his career for another year. “I decided to do another season - the words of Dorothea, who has just returned from vacation and is already ready to resume training - I feel in good shape and I will try to get good results again.
The last two years without an audience have been complicated and even a little sad, isolating ourselves to avoid having problems with Covid, we hope that in the next season we can return to normal. We will resume with the preparation in mid-May in Tuscany ”.
Despite having repeatedly ruled out the possibility of being there for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Games, with the biathlon competitions in her Antholz, the Italian champion added. "At my age you have to think year after year, I have thought a lot about the future because, when you are always with a suitcase in your hand, everything weighs more and more, also due to the expectations that are created".
After 2022/23, we will see if a window remains open for another Olympic dream as well ...
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