Austria’s double Olympic champion Raich retires (Reuters)

Austria’s former world and Olympic ski champion Benjamin Raich announced his retirement on Thursday, citing a lack of motivation to continue racing at the age of 37. “I no longer have the motivation to go the limit and you need that in ski racing,” the winner of four Olympic and 10 world championship medals said in an Austrian Ski Team interview on YouTube. “Possibly the fairest sportsman I’ve ever raced against, no matter if winning or losing with the smallest margin,” said Norwegian rival Aksel Lund Svindal, a two-times World Cup overall champion, on Twitter.