Thomas Biesemeyer greets the white circus after a thousand injuries: "I know I could regret it"

The decision of the American sprinter, whose last race dates back to the second descent of Bormio last December.

Thursday 1 October 2020 2 minutes reading time

The national team with stars and stripes loses one of its reference sprinters of the national team, who for a decade had been a constant protagonist in the World Cup for a decade, having collected 89 bibs despite the thousand injuries of a truly unfortunate career. Today Thomas Biesemeyer officially announced his retirement from competition, even if he kept a door open for a possible return, in the long interview with which, on the website of the US federsci, he announced that he wanted to hang up his skis at 31 years. A rookie in the top circuit ten years ago, in the Lake Louise descent in November 2010, the specialist native of the state of New York was also a good protagonist at the level of world reviews, 13th in super-g at Schladming 2013 and unfortunate protagonist in the same race in Sankt Moritz 2017, when he injured his shoulder at the end of a test that saw him in the race for medals. Physical problems characterized his adventure in the white circus, in particular the terrible knee injury before the 2014 Sochi Olympics and that of the Achilles tendon, which in fact definitely marked his career, just one step away from the debut at the Games as Biesemeyer was injured in the Olympic downhill test in PyeongChang 2018.

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