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After the announcement of the withdrawal by the Bavarian giant player, the same former teammate recounted the moments lived together. Especially those two great Olympic adventures ...
Tuesday 1 September 2020 3 minutes reading time
They wrote the recent history of women's Germany, characterizing the new millennium between Olympic and world medals, World Cups and 46 victories in two in the maximum circuit, the two most successful ever after Katja Seizinger who closed at 36.
Maria Hoefl-Riesch on one side and Viktoria Rebensburg on the other, both set off from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to conquer the world; the three-time Olympic champion, who retired at the end of the 2013/14 season in which she touched her second absolute crystal ball, wanted to give a sweet thought to the former teammate who today, quite surprisingly, announced the goodbye to competitive skiing.
A Germany that, lost in the spring also Christina Ackermann (who will soon become a mother), will regret two great champions like Maria and Viki. "We have lived through many successes and good moments together, but also difficult periods with defeats and injuries - Hoefl-Riesch's words to Rebensburg - We are happy with the medals around our necks from our two Olympics together, in Vancouver (where Maria won two gold in slalom and combined, Viktoria in giant) and in Sochi (another gold in combined for the first, bronze in giant for the second), only congratulations for your career and a great future ”.
The third most successful gigantist ever in the World Cup with 14 successes (on a par with Maze, Morerod and Wachter), behind only Vreni Schneider and Annemarie Moser-Proell, cannot but miss the entire white circus.
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