Three-Time Olympic Ski Jump Champ Morgenstern Retires
Three-time Olympic ski jump champion Thomas Morgenstern is retiring, seven months after winning silver at the Sochi Games to end a season that included two bad crashes.
The 27-year-old Austrian says, "I am ending my active career. I am making a jump into a new life."
Morgenstern suffered facial cuts, bruises and a broken finger from a bad landing during a World Cup in December, and skull and lung injuries in a ski flying training crash four weeks later. He recovered to help Austria to silver behind Germany in the team event at the Sochi Olympics.
Morgenstern is one of only four athletes to have won the four biggest ski jump competitions — Olympics, world championships, overall World Cup, and Four Hills Tour.
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