Roger Federer’s retirement at age 41who left having won 20 Grand Slam titles throughout his career, This is the most notable of how much has happened in the world of sports throughout 2022.
Federer is not the only famous name in racket sport to say goodbye as he is Australian Ashleigh Barty did the same at the age of 25 when he was number 1 in the world.
Argentine Juan Martín del Potro, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, South African Kevin Anderson and Puerto Rican Olympic champion Mónica Puig will also not continue their trajectory.. Also, the withdrawal of Serena Williams, winner of 23 ‘big’ games, was taken for granted, although it did not seem to completely close the doors to a possible return.
In the motor world, the German driver Sebastian Vettel has left the great circus of Formula 1 at the age of 35. He does so after winning four consecutive world titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 as well as three runners-up finishes in 2009, 2017 and 2018.
Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali also has an excellent service sheetthat set foot on land with two editions of the Giro d’Italia, one of the Tour de France and another of La Vuelta.
They also left with ‘big’ in their suitcase Alejandro Valverde (a Vuelta in addition to a World Cup) and Tom Dumoulin (a Giro) while the ‘multicolored snake’ lost in the same way to the Belgian Phillipe Gilbert, the Spanish Mikel Nieve or the Australian Richie Porte.
Women’s basketball also runs out of relative numbers. Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles, WNBA legends, will never dress short again like coach Mike Krzyzewski who will no longer lead a game from the bench. They also do not follow the Mexican center Gustavo Ayón and Laia Palau, one of the benchmarks of the Spanish team in recent times.
Another athlete who brought a lot of glory to Spanish sport is the karate fighter Sandra Sánchez.the only Olympic gold winner in his discipline by reaching the top of the podium at Tokyo 2020 and its absolute dominator on the world scene in recent years.
There was also a withdrawal that brought the world to a standstill but ultimately did not materialize. It’s quarterback Tom Brady’s, one of the greatest athletes in history, who stepped back and returned to the gridiron. They have not done the same, at least for the moment, other outstanding American football such as Ben Roethlisberger, Rob Gronkowski, Andrew Witworth or Frank Gore. Even the baseball player Albert Pujols or the Brazilian swimmer Nicholas Santos.
Source: La Verdad
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