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Just over two months ago he had competed on the Rettenbach, his tenth and last appearance in the World Cup: today the announcement due to the lack of results, he who had obtained his two podiums in the European Cup in the season in which he follow him Ferdinand Hirscher. "I still managed to fulfill the dream I had as a boy".
Thursday 5 January 2023 4 minutes reading time
Another retirement that arrives prematurely, even if in this case the reasons are more to be found in a competitiveness that is not the expected one, rather than the motivations or the difficulty of withstanding the pressures of a very tough sport like skiing.
A few days after saying goodbye to Matthias Mayer, Austria sees Thomas Dorner say enough with competitive spirit. We are talking about a born in 1998, a native of the Vorarlberg region, who in the last 3 years had managed to put together 10 appearances in the World Cup. "I don't know if I will do another race in the new year, I will think about it during the holidays", Dorner told the Austrian media on December 20, 2022, at the end of a FIS giant in Schladming finished in fifth position, he who the previous days he had also competed in the European Cup slaloms in Obereggen and Pozza di Fassa (without hitting the points zone).
Said and done: the 24-year-old from the Wunderteam hangs up his skis, he who just over two months ago was at the starting gate of the inaugural giant of CdM in Soelden, his last presence in the top circuit, where he only made the top 30 on the occasion of the parallel of Lech/Zuers 2021 (he was 25th). The debut in Garmisch, in February 2020 and always between wide doors, in his favorite discipline that seemed to be able to launch him to an important level, after starting the collaboration with Mike Pircher and Ferdinand Hirscher, in the rich winter 2019/2020 of satisfaction given that, before making his debut among the "grown-ups", Dorner had conquered two third places in the European Cup, his only podiums at the parallel of Kronplatz and the giant of Méribel.
“Ever since I was a little boy, I wanted to be a World Cup skier. I did it – wrote Dorner in his greeting message to the world of skiing – Now it's time to move forward and start a new chapter. Regardless of what I experience, I absolutely want to do it with the same enthusiasm and energy that I have put into ski racing in recent years."
Dorner had lost his place in the OESV national teams last spring, but in any case he had had the opportunity to train with the boys of the European Cup group, so much so as to win the pass for Soelden in the internal tests, but the boy from Bregenz now simply admits that "I am no longer able to convert my performances into results, which is why I think it is right to leave".
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