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At just 26 years, the Norwegian lotte smiseth sejersted on Instagram announced his retirement from racing.
Thursday 20 April 2017 4 minutes reading time
"And so I decided to retire from ski racing - writes Lotte -. I had the most extraordinary years doing what I love, but now it's time to start a new chapter. In this sport you have to be willing to risk everything and after injuries in recent years have reached a point where they are no longer willing to take these risks. I am very grateful to all the people who have made this my path. Skiing will miss him, but I'm excited for new adventures that will be in my life. "
It was actually the accident to prevent this girl was born on 5 March 1991 to make the final leap, considering that in the last three seasons has been able to play only 13 World Cup races. He debuted in the top competition in stages of alpine skiing in the Sölden giant of 24 October 2009. Mostly downhill but with good attitudes for the giant and especially for the combined, has placed eight times among the top ten of a race Circus Rosa ranking fifth in Lenzerheide downhill of 16 March 2011, in the Val d'Isere on 21 December 2013 in the super-G in Lake Louise on 6 December 2015.
He has participated in three editions of the World Juniors by winning silver in 2009, bronze in 2010 and gold in 2011 and silver in downhill in 2010 combined. In two editions of those seniors his best result was the tenth in the combined in 2011, while the 2014 Sochi Olympics was sixth downhill. In the European Cup between November 2009 and December 2011 he won three podiums, all in giant, including a win on December 15, 2011 in Zinal.
And now the chapter injuries. The December 20, 2014 falls in the downhill in Val d'Isere procuring abrasions to the face but also the collateral ligament injury in his left knee and is forced to skip all the rest of the season. Back after ten months and have time, as I said, you get fifth in the Lake Louise super-G before falling again, January 9, 2016, in what will be his 125th and final race of the World Cup downhill in two runs Altenmarkt-Zauchensee.
During the first Lotte fraction procures the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, the following autumn is ready to return but suffered an identical injury in training in the United States and jump to full season ended a month ago. Now this gentle and humble girl we met the Atomic Day of 2013, before it passed to Head in 2015, he has given up the bad luck that has heavily targeted in the past two and a half years. Good luck to your life without the races, Lotte!
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