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At just 27 years, the Swiss luger Gregory Carigiet announced the retirement competitive.
Monday 28 April 2014 3 minutes reading time
The basis of the decision of the athlete Switzerland there are economic motivations. Carigiet in an interview on national television Swiss German (SRF) thus explained:
"I decided to quit because I'm sick to continue to seek sponsors for the finanziarmi career. Every time you knock on some doors always feel answering the usual phrase I'm sorry but we can not help you. Without adequate financial support is impossible to be competitive in this sport and the budget to cover to get to the top is of about 420,000 Swiss Francs per season. "
Gregory Carigiet only male representative of Switzerland, has firmly taken part in the last six editions of the World Cup, making his debut in the maximum circuit of the snowmobile in 2006/2007 by participating in the same year at the World Junior Cesana ended fourth.
Just during the past season the twenty-seven of Chur had obtained his best results of his career catching even a podium in Koenigssee, using materials prepared on that occasion by the German Georg Hackl, "Not even the great result and a final placing in Koenigssee top ten in the overall standings allowed me to obtain new financing " added to the dejected athlete SRF.
The Swiss at the moment has not yet planned his future outside the world of luge, "I owe a lot to this sport. I believe that this discipline has been a sort of school of life for me both in sports that on a human level. Leave is not easy especially if the underlying reasons are purely economic. "
The withdrawal of Carigiet lengthens the list of athletes that at the end of this season they have decided to hang up the slide to the nail. Before he had announced the farewell competitions German David Moeller, the Austrians Linger-Linger and Latvian Martins Rubenis.
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