Walking away while at the top is hard – for athletes and for the sports


IT’S hard to walk away when you are riding high or still chasing your own personal summit.

Yet, there are a few who have - some for personal reasons, some to become legend and yet others because the pressure of being consistently “up there” is too hard to bear.

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