Ski star tearfully announces end of career.. As of: February 26, 2024, 1:35 p.m By: Christoph Klaucke CommentsPressSplit The Ski World Cup is losing a big figurehead.

Norwegian Olympic heroine Ragnhild Mowinckel is retiring at the end of the season. The 31-year-old Norwegian won Olympic silver in the 2018 downhill and giant slalom. It was the first medal by a Norwegian woman in the Olympic alpine races since Laila Schou Nilsen in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.