Ski alpine skiing: Olympic champion Mancuso resigns from the race

Ski Olympic champion Julia Mancuso (USA) has lost the battle for her fifth winter games and ends her career:”I say goodbye with a heavy heart, but also with a great deal of gratitude,”the 33-year-old wrote in the social networks. Friday’s departure in Cortina d’ Ampezzo was 399. and last World Cup race.

“It was a gigantic fight with my hip injury in the last three years, I have given everything to compete again at the highest level and reach my fifth Olympic Games,”Mancuso continued. This didn’t work out “unfortunately”,”but I’m proud to have fought to the end.”

At the Winter Games in Pyeongchang (9. till 25. The giant slalom Olympic champion of 2006 will still be present as TV expert for the US broadcaster NBC. Mancuso has won nine individual medals at major events such as Lindsey Vonn – four at the Olympics, five at world championships. She celebrated seven victories in the World Cup and was on the podium 36 times, for the first time in January 2006 in Cortina.