Anna Veith before resignation: Is skiing losing its next star?

Wie die Krone Zeitung According to reports on her homepage, the 30-year-old from Salzburg will announce the end of her successful career in May. There was no confirmation for the time being.

Veith, née Fenninger and married to Manuel Veith since April 2016, is one of the most successful skiers of recent years. The Salzburg native is an Olympic champion (Super G 2014), a three-time world champion (Super Combined 2011, Super G and giant slalom 2015), twice the overall World Cup winner (2013/14 and 2014/15) and three times Austria's athlete of the year (2013, 2014, 2015). . Great triumphs were followed by injury misery After their outstanding seasons in 2013/14 and 2014/15, however, serious injuries repeatedly set them back. The ordeal began on October 21, 2015 with a torn cruciate, medial ligament and patellar tendon in her right knee, which she sustained while training in Sölden. Her comeback was only brief in December 2016; after another operation in February 2017, Veith had to take another break for months.

After a comeback victory in the World Cup on December 17, 2017 at the Super-G in Val d'Isere and Olympic silver in the 2018 Super-G in Pyeongchang, another cruciate ligament tear followed on January 12, 2019. Nevertheless, Veith announced on June 5th of the previous year that she was continuing her career. Now, a few weeks before her 31st birthday on June 18th, she is apparently drawing a line. Want to have children as a reason? “There are increasing rumors in insider circles that she is going straight to the ski pension instead of the coming season. “Next week or the week after that, at least in May, she should officially declare her resignation,” she wrote Krone Zeitung . The ÖSV media partner speculated that this “may also have private reasons”. She runs a hotel in Rohrmoos with her husband “and in the last few months she has talked more and more often about her family planning. About the desire to have children.”

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Anna Veith before resignation: Is skiing losing its next star?

Eight months after Marcel Hirscher, the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) is apparently threatened with losing its shining light among the alpine women too. Anna Veith is about to resign.

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