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With a long post on Instagram Stacey Cook, a Californian from Mammoth Mountain, announced the withdrawal from competitive activity four days after turning 34.
Saturday 7 July 2018 4 minutes reading time
"With a sunset comes another dawn - Stacey writes - I decided that the time has come to abandon the competitive ski and look towards new goals and adventures.I loved being an athlete and all that this brought, including travel, friendship, inspiration and opportunity.The sport has improved my life in many ways.Now, even if I still feel so much love and passion for skiing, I feel very inspired by the thought of realizing my potential in another way I leave behind goals that I deeply wanted to achieve, but I also think back to my girl dreams and how I overcame what I could have imagined I know that my constant desire to achieve the maximum will be a force to go forward and not a regret that I leave so many people with whom I am indebted for helping me along the way, it would take too long to list them here, I hope I have the opportunity to thank each one of them in the future, from vici no or from afar ".
Born on July 3, 1984, Stacey Cook has played 244 World Cup races since the descent of Haus January 30, 2004 to that of the final of Ã…re last March 14, 2018 ending 27 times in the top ten, 24 down and 3 in superG , 11 of which at Lake Louise, unquestionably his favorite track, where he conquered his only podiums, finishing three times second behind Lindsey Vonn in both the descents of 2012 and the second of those of 2014, on that occasion preceded Julia Mancuso in the first all-American podium (and all-class 1984) of the history of the Alpine Ski World Cup, including men. She was fourth in the 2012-2013 descent cup and twenty-eighth in the general classification of the following winter. In Nor-Am Cup he won 6 descents and 3 super-G between 2002 and 2017 finishing four more times on the podium and winning the general classification and the descent in 2004. He competed six editions of the World Championships from 2007 to 2017 placing sixth in the descent of Schladming in 2013 and three Olympics from 2006 to 2014 ending eleventh in 2010 always downhill at Whistler.
This year he played two tests of the PyeongChang Olympic descent but he eventually gave up as not to the best of physical conditions due to a terrifying fall a couple of weeks earlier in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. We wish the nice Stacey all the best for his life outside of competitive skiing!
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