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The 31-year-old Scandinavian has formalized his retirement from competition, after wearing 29 bibs in the maximum circuit, competing in two World Championships and achieving good results before the serious injury in Val d''Isère 2020.
Tuesday 26 July 2022 2 minutes reading time
The Sweden of speed, which awaits the return of an emerging athlete like Felix Monsen after the terrible fall remedied last December in Val Gardena, will not have a good reference point like Alexander Koell from the 2022/23 season.
The specialist from the '90s class announced, yesterday, his farewell to the races after wearing 29 bibs in the World Cup, the last of which in the Kitzbuehel temple in January, experiencing a distant last season from the good performance he had found between 2019 (when his best arrived, with the 20th place in the Beaver Creek descent, one of his three points finishes in the maximum circuit) and 2020, before the serious injury remedied in the opening of the 2020/21 vintage in Val d''Isère.
Koell, who took part in two editions of the world championships between Sankt Moritz 2017 and Are 2019, explained that the decision to retire from the competition stems mainly from his vision problems following that fall. "With the injury to the optic nerve, it had become dangerous as well as limiting - explained the Swedish downhill skier in his post to greet the white circus - It was the most difficult decision of my life on the one hand, but on the other. '' another also the easiest and most correct for these reasons ".
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