Speed ace Tamara Tippler has to end the ski season early.
However, the reason for this is a very joyful one: she is expecting a baby.
Munich – Tamara Tippler announced her early retirement from the World Cup on Sunday.
"I will end the season early and will not compete in the World Cup finals in Soldeu," wrote the alpine skiing ace.
However, the reason for the premature end is not an injury or illness.
Team Austria can look forward to offspring!
The speed ace made the pregnancy public on Instagram and explained that she would no longer start at the World Cup finals in Andorra on Wednesday.
The colleagues were also pleased with the message. "Tears in her eyes," wrote Stephanie Venier under the post, for example.
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Tamara Tippler is pregnant and therefore ends the World Cup season early.
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Ski star Tamara Tippler announces the end of the season after baby news – "tears in her eyes"
"SURPRISE!
The current situation also came as a surprise to me," explained Tippler, giving the reasons why he put his skis in the basement early: "I notice that I no longer have the necessary willingness to take risks, which has always distinguished me to race at the highest level to deny.
It was extremely difficult or no longer possible to switch off my head completely and risk everything.” The 31-year-old and her boyfriend Oliver Selle can now look forward to their first child together.
However, Tippler left it open whether she would return to the ski slopes after the birth of her child.
"The motivation and passion for skiing is still very high and I would like to see what the future of skiing will bring," said the Austrian.
Most recently, there was also whispering about the premature end of another winter sports star's career.
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Ski star Tippler is pregnant: speed specialist leaves return to World Cup open
But now "another wonderful, exciting task is waiting for me/us, which I'm looking forward to with pleasure," Tippler continued on Instagram.
She also provided the emotional post with a sweet video message, which showed up together with Selle and the first ultrasound scans.
To date, Tippler has completed 129 World Cup races, with the speed specialist finishing ten times on the podium.
She took second place once in the downhill and was second in the Super-G four times.
There you also get five third places.
Tamara Tippler announces the end of the season: Two top 10 places this year
She celebrated her greatest success at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, where she narrowly missed out on a medal.
In the Super-G, she just missed the podium with three hundredths of a second behind bronze medalist Michelle Gisin.
Two years ago, eleventh place in the overall World Cup was Tippler's best result.
This season she finished in the top 10 twice. She was sixth in the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo and fifth in the Super-G in St. Anton.
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