With Dorothea Wierer, one of the most popular and successful biathletes of all time will resign after the 2025/26 season. The Italian is looking forward to her last year in professional sports. At the same time, they also accompany some worries.
Dorothea Wierer looks at the last biathlon season of her career with anticipation, excitement and a few worries. The Italian steadfastly states her decision to hang up the rifle, as she explained in an interview with the “Gazzetta Dello Sport”.
The Olympic Games in their homeland are the “perfect time” to draw the line. “Even if I shouldn’t win or get a medal,” she said.
Biathlon star Wierer wants to “enjoy life”
Your motivation is still there. “I’m still giving everything, but my body reacts [auf die Belastung] Not like at the age of 25, “said the 35-year-old. That she would end her career in Antholz, i.e. in the place where everything started for her, was” a wonderful thing. And it’s a great story. I can hardly wait until February “.
What does your career come? This is still completely unclear. Wierer himself says: “I hope I will be able to enjoy life a bit.”
Wierer has “fear” of the biathlon retirement
Since she does not yet know which way she will take, there is still some question marks in the head with the Italian. “Retirement makes me a little scared? A little bit, yes. As an athlete, you can’t prepare 100 percent for the future.”
As a professional athlete, you can have various plans and ideas for the time after. “But until you experience it, you don’t know how life is outside. We live in a bubble. This is not a normal life. But we are privileged in this sense,” said Wierer, who has been one of the most famous biathlon faces in the world for many years and also appears again and again.