Former world super-G skiing champion Hannes Reichelt retires
The former world champion's latest setback, however, was one too many.
The 40-year-old Reichelt said Wednesday he will retire at this week's World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
The announcement came six years after the Austrian won the biggest prize of his two-decade-long career -- super-G gold at the world championships in Beaver Creek, Colorado.
"I've got the feeling that after 20 years on the World Cup the time has come to leave,'' Reichelt said.
He failed to get back to the top level after damaging his right knee in a downhill crash in December 2019 and didn't make the Austrian team for the worlds in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, last month.