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As reported by the British federation Bob and Skeleton, the double Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold announced her retirement from competitive activity.
Tuesday 16 October 2018 4 minutes reading time
30 years old on 31st October, the British began to dedicate herself to the skeleton in 2010 after practicing the athletic eptathlon. He won the 2012 World Junior Championships, the 2014 World Cup, the world and European titles of 2015 and took home two bronze medals in 2012 and 2017. But above all he won the Olympic gold at Sochi 2014, succeeding his compatriot Amy Williams, and PyeongChang 2018 becoming the most decorated Olympic athlete in his country at the Winter Olympics. that in Korea was his last race of a career interrupted for the 2015-2016 season due to too much stress and recovery in 2016-2017. Now he hopes to take on a role, perhaps as a talent discoverer, in the federal sphere.
Another double Olympic champion but a two-man bob, in Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 both with Heather Moyse, the Canadian Kaille Humphries, announced a break from competitions after being bronze at PyeongChang with a new braking machine, Phylicia George. The North American actress plans to return for 2019-2020 with the aim of the White Games of 2022 and 2026. In addition to Olympic medals Humphries has won two golds (both in the two-man bob in 2012 and 2013), three silvers (two in the two-man bobsleigh in 2016 and 2017) and four world championships (one in the two-man bobsleigh in 2011, all the other world medals have come in the bobsled and skeleton team competition). He also posted four four-piece bobsled cups in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
As for the sled, the 30 year old German Toni Eggert, bronze in the double at PyeongChang 2018 with his historic "partner" Sascha Benecken, with whom he won a world gold in 2017 as well as two titles in the team competition in 2012 and 2017, he overturned in training at Altenberg and suffered a fracture exposed to the fibula of his right leg and the expected recovery times are from six to eight weeks. Finally, the 30-year-old American Chris Mazdzer, an Olympic silver medalist in the South Korea single, has decided to return to devote himself to both the single and double sled races, as he had done as a junior. In the double he will compete with Jayson Terdiman, who was his crew mate in the junior races and otherwise would have been forced to retire.
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