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With the thirteenth place in & rsquo; today's super-G of the absolute Italian championships of Sella Nevea you & egrave; ended the career of Silvano Varettoni, who announced on his Facebook page on Instagram and his retirement from & rsquo; activity & agrave; challenge.
Friday 25 March 2016 6 minutes reading time
& Ldquo; It & cos igrave; you & egrave; ended my life as an athlete - writes Silvano - after years of sacrifice and satisfaction with the smile I have decided to close this page of my life !! Of course, thanks for making me become the person I am going to my family and my girlfriend, also for making me reach sports goals I never thought to C & lrm; orpo State Forest and finally to all the people who believed in me and to friends who have wished to greet me in this way (as in the photo, ed) Emanuele Buzzi, Paolo Pangrazzi, William Bosca, Mattia Casse. Thanks to that Head & egrave; I have been at my side for 10 years and to @ tomiit71 who endured me and helped me all this time !!! Thanks to all & rdquo ;.
Born December 3, 1984 in Pieve di Cadore and lives in Borca di Cadore, province of Belluno, in his one-world juniors (and seniors) wins l & rsquo; silver in downhill Feb. 10, 2004 in Maribor behind dell & rsquo; Austrian Romed Baumann, in the European Cup he had already & agrave; debuted March 6, 2001 downhill Ssetriere but will have & agrave; wait 2 February 2007, when he was second in the super-G in Tignes, to get on the podium. In the World Cup, which debuted December 15, 2006 in the super-G in Val Gardena, it raced almost exclusively in speed & agrave ;, with some rare foray into combined.
On 29 February 2008 tumbling falls in Kvitfjell downhill, the race where a year before had been twenty-ninth, and for the first time to maximum points in the circuit, getting a sprain to his right knee with lesions of the anterior cruciate ligament, the medial compartment and patellar tendon. For the 2009 season remains stationary in the pits and in the next two can play only four races of the World Cup. The return takes place at almost full capacity in 2011-2012, when it competes only in the European Cup and brings his first victory in the continental circuit, the super-G Sarn of 10 February 2012 also conquered another podium.
Three podiums in the next season, including the success in the super-G in Sochi on 14 March 2013, also ends up sixth overall in the general of the continental event, third and fourth in the super-G downhill. In the same season in the World Cup ends for the first time in the top ten, ninth in the downhill in Val Gardena, then more and downhill & egrave; fifth right at Kvitfjell, the very place where his career had suffered a sharp and prolonged stop. Another two ninth places catches them l & rsquo; next winter in Bormio and in Kvitfjell, then, February 28, 2015, & egrave; even fourth in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, his best result in the World Cup just 4 cents from the third place of & rsquo; Austrian Matthias Mayer.
This season & egrave; rose for the seventh time on the podium in the European Cup, finishing second in the downhill in Val Sarentino last February 4, at the World Cup only collects a punticino finishing thirtieth in the descent of Santa Caterina last December 28. His 71st and last race in the maximum circuit & egrave; tata the Chamonix downhill of 20 February. The Italian Championships & egrave; It was third in the downhill and super-G in 2013. Impossible for him, with the competition that you & egrave; found in the house, snatch the pass for World Championships and Olympic Games, he goes to memorize options He acknowledged to have had its best competitive period when perhaps more & ugrave; no one expected after so many troubled seasons or jump later all''infortunio in Norway.
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