Cory Butner and Curt Tomasevicz retire

Double & nbsp; withdrawal & nbsp; into the world of & nbsp; bob United States. In recent days, both the pilot & nbsp; Cory Butner & nbsp; brakeman that the & nbsp; Curt Tomasevicz & nbsp; announced to the public that he had hung up his helmet proverbial & nbsp; nail.

Wednesday 20 August 2014 5 minutes reading time

The withdrawal of & nbsp; Butner & nbsp; & egrave; be considered as a real & nbsp; thunderclap & nbsp; since the trentatreenne & nbsp; Californian & nbsp; into the & nbsp; season just ended & nbsp; had obtained the best results in & nbsp; career. The pilot native of & nbsp; Riverside & nbsp; announced its choice using the known & nbsp; social network & nbsp; Facebook: & nbsp; "I never thought that came this time, but now I'm officially an ex-athlete. I can not ringrazione all people I have been close in the past seven years of operation & agrave ;, my family, sponsors, friends and opponents that I have loved, supported, aided and abetted in this long period of my life. Surely in the future I will miss those 55 seconds of pure adrenaline courses along the tracks of each part of the world to challenge the world's best athletes. thank you for sharing this adventure with me and for letting me live the dream of every athlete representing the United States at the Olympics !! " Born as a brakeman for John Napier, Butner in 2009 he made his debut in the World Cup in the guise of & nbsp; pilot, a role which he then held until last season. The pi & ugrave; great satisfactions have come in the last two years with the conquest of four podium finishes, the result of two & nbsp; seconds & nbsp; (Park City and Lake Placid in 2012-2013) and two third places & nbsp; (Lake Placid and Winterberg 2013-2014) results exclusively in the two-man bobsleigh & nbsp; her favorite discipline. Last year, the 'athlete Californian & egrave; was among the & nbsp; great protagonists of the season, collecting two podiums in addition to three placings in the top five in eight races on the program, finishing in fourth place in the overall standings specialty & agrave,. & nbsp; Withdrawal illustrious also to & nbsp; Curt Tomasevicz, & nbsp; historical brakeman Steven Holcomb, & nbsp; than the threshold of 34 years decided to stop with the competitions. & Nbsp; Tomasevicz & nbsp; closes a career unforgettable culminated in the conquest dell''oro Olympic Vancouver 2010 in the four-man bob with the legendary "Night Train", to which are added 2 gold in the world (Lake Placid 2009 and 2012), 14 victories in the World Cup and the Olympic bronze medal in Sochi, his last great effort. Butner and & nbsp; Tomasevicz athletes who are sixth in the summer break, they decided to hang the bob to the nail. Before they made themselves & nbsp; withdrawal of the Swiss Fabienne Mayer and Caroline Spahni, the 'Dutch Esme Kamphuis and Switzerland's Gregor Baumann.

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