SmokeBassett
10-28-2007, 05:54 PM
Many people's favorite skater of all time is retiring from the ice this Spring.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jIa1D9o4IjTnMSxNCk-7es55L8rg
Witt to call it a day in Spring 2008
6 days ago
BERLIN (AFP) — Double Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt of Germany is to call time on her professional skating career with farewell performances in Germany and Russia during the Spring of 2008.
The 41-year-old, also a four-time world champion and six-time European champion, will take part in galas in Chemnitz, Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as potentially the United States as she says goodbye.
"For the last two years I've been thinking about saying goodbye, something that makes me feel both happy and sad," she said.
"Happy because I'm going to focus on new professional ambitions and sad because it's the end of a magnificant era."
Witt won the Olympic title in 1984 and 1988 and made an unsuccessful attempt at an amateur comeback for the 1994 Games in Lillehammer.
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Also check out her site: www.katarina-witt.de
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jIa1D9o4IjTnMSxNCk-7es55L8rg
Witt to call it a day in Spring 2008
6 days ago
BERLIN (AFP) — Double Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt of Germany is to call time on her professional skating career with farewell performances in Germany and Russia during the Spring of 2008.
The 41-year-old, also a four-time world champion and six-time European champion, will take part in galas in Chemnitz, Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as potentially the United States as she says goodbye.
"For the last two years I've been thinking about saying goodbye, something that makes me feel both happy and sad," she said.
"Happy because I'm going to focus on new professional ambitions and sad because it's the end of a magnificant era."
Witt won the Olympic title in 1984 and 1988 and made an unsuccessful attempt at an amateur comeback for the 1994 Games in Lillehammer.
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Also check out her site: www.katarina-witt.de