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With the conclusion of the 2014-15 season successive withdrawals from some of the most cross-country skiers & ugrave; experts worldwide. Today & egrave; the turn of the Finnish Riikka Sarasoja-Lilja.
Thursday 26 March 2015 4 minutes reading time
& Ldquo; To continue to do this sport, I would have had to extend the sacrifices for a few years. I always wanted to give my best to achieve the goals I set for myself and to live these emotions. Now for & ograve; I decided to take a step back: I love cross-country skiing, but are no longer & ugrave; willing to concentrate on it for 24 hours on 24 and 7 days on 7 & rdquo ;. With these words, the 32 year-old resident of JYV & auml; skyl & auml; has officially announced his retirement, continuing: & ldquo; I took this decision last Saturday, but gi & agrave; Sunday I woke up with the thought that I would not pi & ugrave; competed, and the same feelings I experienced up to Wednesday & Igrave ;. This & egrave; significant than & egrave; was important cross-country skiing in my life and how hard it was to give it up & rdquo ;.
Now Sarasoja, that the marriage took place in 2011 has added her husband's surname Lilja, you will dedicate & agrave; the completion of his studies, but does not rule out a few appearances in the long distance races: & ldquo; I can not rule you can do a few races just for the heck of it, maybe in Finland or in a large classical European long distance & rdquo ;.
Riikka Sarasoja-Lilja, whose debut in the World Cup & egrave; dated November 25, 2001, retires cos & Igrave; 33 years with the bronze medal won in tandem with Krista P & auml; rm & auml; Koski in the Team Sprint World Cup Fiemme 2013 as the apex of a career still a good standard. As for individual tests, his best results are 2/4 places obtained in the prologue of the Tour de Ski in 2011-12 and 10 km classic technique of Val di Fiemme, always valid for the Tour de Ski, but in 2010, while other features 6 podiums, 2/2 and 4/3 places in team races first level. However, she remembers especially the disastrous last lap of Relay World Championships in Val di Fiemme in 2013, when following a crisis hard to imagine him losing to Finland a medal that seemed obvious.
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