Snowboarding: 6-time Olympian Tomoka Takeuchi to retire after 1 more season
Japanese snowboarder Tomoka Takeuchi, who has competed in the past six Winter Olympics, said Thursday she will retire at the end of the 2025-26 Olympic season.The parallel giant slalom silver medalist at the 2014 Sochi Olympics has already met the qualifying standards set by the Ski Association of Japan for next February's Milan-Cortina Olympics.
"In one last season, I want to go all out to win," the 41-year-old said at a press conference in Tokyo.
The Hokkaido native made her Olympic debut in 2002 and moved her training base to Switzerland five years later.
Takeuchi did not compete for about two and a half years after the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, she was 15th in the parallel giant slalom.
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