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On the eve of the new season, the German team Nordic Combined discovers having to do without one of its most representative men. Tino Edelmann has decided to hang on a nail skiing.
Friday 4 November 2016 3 minutes reading time
"During the second part of last winter have not been able to have high-level performance even though I had trained hard and were healthy. I then began to reflect.
After the national championships of the past weeks, ended with my fall on the track, I knew I had done my time. In recent years I have always managed to be at the top in the field of international ones, but now I realized he could no longer even be the number two or three of our team.
I have therefore come to the conclusion to put an end to my career. It was not an easy decision, but if the circumstances are such, I prefer to spend more time with my family. Also I will finish my studies by the university of Erfurt. "
The Teutonic thirty-one had actually taken the downward trend for some years and closes a respectable career, with three victories and 19 podium finishes in top-level competitions - including 2 individual of 'silver medals at the World Championships (mass start of Liberec 2009 gundersen with small trampoline jump in Oslo 2011) - five consecutive seasons ended in the top 10 of the overall standings of the World Cup.
Especially Edelmann has been part of the German quartet who win the 'gold medal in the relay race in Falun 2015, thereby ending the "curse of the fall of the wall", ie all''incapacità of Germany to gain success in a try teams of a main event from the time of Calgary in 1988, ie from before reunification.
In the event the nordic combined team of the Saxon Thuringian training also collected an Olympic bronze plus four silvers and one bronze world championship.
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