He retired Canadian John Kucera

After a four-year period during which the Olympic managed to play only eleven races of the World Cup during the winter 2012-2013 because massacred by injuries, retires at age 29 John Kucera, the first Canadian world downhill gold in 2009.

Friday 25 April 2014 5 minutes reading time

I'm really proud to have done great things in a very short career - said the athlete originally from Calgary announcing the withdrawal -. It ' was a great adventure. It is really was. I was the first to do things for this country and I'm really proud of that. " Besides that the first iridescent descent Kucera is was the first Canadian to win the World Cup in Lake Louise, in the super-G on 26 November 2006, starting with the incredibly number 1. Born September 17 1984 in Calgary from parents originating in the Czech Republic, after having played in two Junior World Championships in 2003 and 2004 without significant results, John made his debut in November 27, 2004 Cup downhill at Lake Louise in 2005 and won the Nor- Am Cup, the North American Continental Cup. The first five winters in the cup are so much promettentissimi Admittedly, mainly in fast races in giant slalom and combined, but also ends up in the top ten 19 times, including three podiums: in addition to the already successful quoted in Lake Louise, December 15, 2006 placed third in super-G in Val Gardena and 30 November 2008 always second in Lake Louise and always in super-G. In a giant difficult as that is in Alta Badia was fifth in 2006 and fourth in 2007. On 7 February 2009, the apotheosis of his career: the third world, favored by the low number of start then with the track still immaculate, 2, and visibility favorable as opposed to the one that will best then, Kucera succeeds in which all of his illustrious countrymen of his generation and the previous one had failed, and that is win gold world of supreme discipline of alpine skiing on difficult Face de Bellevarde in Val d'IsÃ¨re, a track made for a downhill skier supertecnico as he descents Cup had never done better than seventh place, coincidentally at Lake Louise in 2007. Since that time the luck that had helped him in Val d'Isere leaves him completely: November 29, 2009, the day after he finished sixth in the downhill, super-G in Lake Louise fell and broke his left tibia and should skip the Games home in Vancouver. The recovery proves difficult time returning to the races three years Later, on November 24, 2012 in the downhill in Lake Louise, after re-fractured the tibia itself before the 2011-2012 season. The fourteenth day after arriving in super-G, but this will be its the only placement seasonal points. His 124th and final race in the World Cup is the super-G Kvitfjell of 3 March 2013, then in September the following year, during training in Chile La Parva, he was diagnosed with vestibular neuritis inner ear that creates serious feeling dizzy. The inevitable decision to skip the entire Olympic season (his only winter games in which he participated are those of the Turin 2006) and now, just as inevitable, the decision to say enough is enough with ski racing.

Max Valle

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