Sudden and surprising withdrawal of Larisa Yurkiw

Had just been operated for the fifth time, this time to the knee & ldquo; good & rdquo ;, as the & rsquo; he called her, and a few days after the Canadian Larisa Yurkiw announced by a long post on Instagram his retirement from & rsquo; activity & agrave ;.

Thursday 12 May 2016 6 minutes reading time

After that of An & eacute; mone Marmottan then comes another withdrawal of a star of the class downhill skiing in 1988 massacred by injuries and operations, with the difference that the French had returned from one of the pi & ugrave seasons; difficult of his career while the Canadian was coming from his best competitive winter ever, that & rsquo; led her to quit even third in the ranking of the downhill cup behind Lindsey Vonn and Fabienne Suter and ahead of the winner of the general Cup, Lara Gut. But Larisa you & egrave; realized not have pi & ugrave; health, as she says herself, in addition to test its limits. The surgeon that & rsquo; he made, last week, you & egrave; said amazed that Larisa had returned back to ski after the serious left knee injury that sub & igrave; in Val d & rsquo; Is & egrave; re in December 2009 and held it away from racing for two years just as it was proving one of the most & ugrave discesiste; promising Circus Rosa. Born March 30, 1988 in Owen Sound, in & rsquo; Ontario, and raised in competitions in Georgian Peaks Club in Thornbury, always Ontario, Larisa Yurkiw made his debut in 19 years of World Cup still to be made, January 13, 2007 in the descent of Altenmarkt- Zauchensee, l & rsquo; year after he won the & rsquo; silver in the combined at the World junior Formigal and in 2009, for the & rsquo; accuracy Jan. 17, just in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee wins surprise the descent of the super combined World Cup, then coming to the first time among the top ten in Tarvisio downhill of 21 February 2009, in which ninth place. Then, the serious Val injury d & rsquo; Is & egrave; re that whittled away at the moment when he was about to take flight, and the slow, according to some, as we have seen, miraculous recovery, which returns it to the top ten Cup World in Lake Louise downhill of 6 December 2013 in which & egrave; seventh. Eleven days after wins in the European Cup in St. Moritz always downhill, in our review Continental totalizzer & agrave; four podiums in the North American nvece between 2005 and 2014, it brings together 23 of which 10 victories and the triumph in the general classification and fall in 2007-2008. The first podium in the World Cup for Larisa arrives January 16, 2015 when & egrave; second in the shortened downhill in Cortina d & rsquo; Ampezzo won by Elena Fanchini. It seems an isolated case and instead last season & egrave; third December 19 in Val d & rsquo; Is & egrave; re and second in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee and Cortina d & rsquo; Ampezzo: the three places that, for better or for worse have marked the career of Larisa. In three editions of the World Cup, in 2009, 2013 and 2015, and the Olympics, 2014, does not & egrave; never placed in the top ten. And now the retreat, which terminates on 91 points as the number of appearances in the World Cup and that leaves us all dismayed, because & eacute; He had a great protagonist season and because & eacute; He says enough is still much too young to have asked his physique: a fact that should make us reflect on the level of exasperation that reached professional sport in general and alpine skiing in particular & hellip;

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