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Retreats in alpine skiing continue to coincide with the closing of the four-year Olympic period, this time to announce it are two protagonists of the Circo Rosa of the last decade, the Austrian Carmen Thalmann and Denise Feierabend.
Monday 9 April 2018 8 minutes reading time
"It was a wonderful chapter of my life that I will never forget - Carmen writes on her Instagram account - but since I was a child, I kept on promising myself that I would do everything with all my love. Last year was very hard for me, I tried to keep the smile, but in the end I had to realize that I could not do it anymore ... I lost my smile Smile and passion are the most important aspects in life of each and now I am ready for something new Something I have put all my love in! I want to thank my parents, who have made all this possible for me and, of course, all my family and my friends! to my crazy fanclub and to all the special people I met on this incredible journey, you gave me the support I needed, thanks to all my sponsors, in particular Europlast and Head, who have been by my side in good times and active. Thanks to all those who have walked with me in any part of my story. Just to let you know, it's not over yet, I'm just starting something new. "
"During the season I felt that it was becoming increasingly difficult to do everything possible to continue at the highest levels, and the distance from my friends and family became more difficult to manage - Denise says in a video of Swiss Ski at the end of the Swiss national championships - when I perceived all this I started thinking about the future and in the end I decided to retire ".
Born on September 11, 1989, a resident of Berg Drau, in Carinthia, Carmen Thalmann played 97 World Cup races, the first in the Semmering slalom on December 29th 2008, the last in the one of the finals in Ã…re last March 17th . In 2015 and 2016 it ended up twelfth in the narrow doors classification, of which it was almost exclusive specialist with some giant incursion in the second part of the career. His best result of his 15 top ten was Lienz's fourth place on December 29, 2015, at the beginning of the winter 2016-2017, when he seemed ready for the definitive leap in quality, he broke the crusader of his left knee and He struggled to make more results, the best of the last winter was the eleventh place of Ofterschwang, and failed to qualify for what would be his first Olympic Games. At the World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek 2015, her only world championship participation, she was seventh in slalom. In the European Cup he won four races, 3 in slalom and 1 in giant, collecting another 17 podiums and finishing fourth in the general of 2009, third in the slalom ranking in 2010 and 2011 and in the giant in 2014. His only podium in the Great Ski was the gold in the world championships race at Schladming 2013 during which they made a huge shirtless cheer for her as on many other occasions the components of her picturesque (not to say crazy, as she writes) fans club.
Denise Feierabend, also class 1989 but will turn 29 on April 15th, originally from Engelberg, Canton Obwalden, the country of Erika Hess and the Gisin family, took part in 156 World Cup races, the first in the slalom in Zagreb of the 15 February 2008, the last one was the same one of Thalmann in the slalom of the precordial ones on the snows nevi. Unlike the Austrian, it was a multipurpose and even for her in 13 top 10 positions there have never been individual podiums: the Swiss stopped in fourth place in the Lenzerheide combo of March 13, 2016 and in the Killington slalom last 26 November. She also suffered a serious knee injury in March 2012, when she was seventh in the combined classification, from which she returned stronger than before from 2013-2014 until completing her best season on the occasion of the one just ended, in which it was twenty-third in the general classification and tenth in that of slalom. In the European Cup he won two slaloms and a super-G plus two more podiums, closing third in the classification of the narrow doors of 2009, when he was also junior champion of the specialty at the fourth participation in the event, and the sixth of super-G in 2010. He conquered four top ten in three Senior World Championships, 2009, 2011 and 2017, finishing fourth in the combined dominated by home athletes in St. Moritz 2017. It was finally ninth in the multiple competition at PyeongChang 2018 in its second Olympics, during which collected in the team competition, just like Thalmann, his only podium in the Great Ski, five-circle gold.
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