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The news was in the air'', the'' c'' coach Brugger is l'' he confided in an interview,'' but it is now came the confirmation from the direct question. Sandra Gasparini at only twenty-three years he decided to say enough with the sled.
Tuesday 27 May 2014 4 minutes reading time
"The sledge was a great passion and an important part of my life - he confided to Sportnews.bz Sandra - I worked so hard over the years, but now I think I can say that I do not see my future in this discipline. I reasoned well on this choice, but I understand that in recent times, despite the amount of work, they are no longer able to improve. And then you just take a step back. "
Gasparini after being put on display in the junior category, only 16 years old he made his debut in the maximum circuit sledging in the 2006-2007 season. From that moment on, Sandra '' was the only blue constantly engaged in making the World Cup fixture in the relay Italian. Most great satisfaction of his career are just come from this new race format, which allowed her to climb on the step 3 times more top of the podium and get another 14 placings in the top three.
At the individual level, the athlete'' Vipiteno / Sterzing has racked up several placings in the top ten, taking a best result of two sixth places, the first in 2011-2012 and the second in Sigulda just last year in Lillehammer. In the overall standings the'' blue has always sailed around the top ten even though his best season is was in 2012-2013 when he closed in eighth place.
Sandra has participated in two Winter Olympics, Vancouver 2010 and the fourteenth to twentieth Sochi 2014 while in reviews iridescent got a'' silver medal in the relay along with teammates Armin Zöggeler and Oberstolz-Gruber.
The decision to quit has started to blend into the head of the young Tyrolean already at the end of the 2012-2013 season, "In the 2012/13 season things did not go well - he continued on the web portal the blue'' - but considering that this was the Olympic year, I decided to go ahead and to try to get up and regain confidence in the results. I worked so hard, but in the end, even this season, I had to settle for placings in the top ten and then at the end I saw that the improvements have not arrived. "
In the future Sandra c'' is Now the world of fitness, "In the future I will continue to be used in my group sports, and end of my course of study to become a personal fitness trainer."
With the withdrawal of Gasparini, this is the national women's luge now all in the hands of the young Andrea and Sandra Voetter Robatscher, waiting for the newcomer Greta Pinggera beginning to get space in this discipline.
By the editors of Sports Neveitalia a big good luck to Sandra Gasparini.
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