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It 'was Ted Ligety yesterday on Twitter and Facebook to announce the withdrawal of the 32 year-old Japanese director Akira Sasaki and the news was later confirmed by Kilian Albrecht, former Austrian slalom skier Mikaela Shiffrin and now manager.
Monday 10 March 2014 3 minutes reading time
At the end of the slalom in Kranjska Gora Ligety said he will miss skiing with Mike Janyk, who had already announced his retirement on his own, and with Sasaki and Albrecht added, referring to the Japanese, that one of his best friends in Circus White, with whom he had trained so many times, he retired, making him all the best for his future.
Born September 26, 1981 and originating in the prefecture of Hokkaido, Sasaki made his debut in World Cup February 17, 2001 in the slalom in Shiga-Kogen, Nagano Olympic snow, playing a total of 143 major races in the circuit. Like almost all Japanese who have appeared in the men's World Cup has been an almost exclusive specialist in the narrow poles and three second places in Wengen in 2003 and Schlading and Shiga-Kogen in 2006, is the Japanese that has the best balance of podiums in total and it is also what came several times in the first ten, 21, the first with its place of honor in Wengen and the last in Schladming in 2010 when he was ninth .
In Kranjska Gora yesterday ended his career at the World Cup with a twenty-second place. He has participated in seven editions of the World Cup and the slalom in St. Anton where he was the nineteenth, which remains his best World Championship together with that of Schladming in 2013, competed even before making his debut in the Cup, where he made his debut a week later. He did not do much better in the Olympics because the best result in four races is the eighteenth place in Whistler in 2010.
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