Salzburg, Austria (SportsNetwork.com) – Three-time Olympic ski jump champion Thomas Morgenstern announced his retirement Friday.<\/p>\n
Morgenstern helped Austria win silver in the team event at the Sochi Games.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Morgenstern struggled after suffering a cranial injury and lung contusion in a training accident at the start of the year.<\/p>\n
“I have reached my athletic goals and realized my dreams,” said Morgenstern on his official website. “With my last jump I got a silver medal with the team in Sochi. For me the time has come to complete this chapter.”<\/p>\n
Morgenstern was the individual large hill champion at the 2006 Torino Games and also captured gold that year as part of the team event. He was also a member of Austria’s gold-medal team effort at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salzburg, Austria (SportsNetwork.com) – Three-time Olympic ski jump champion Thomas Morgenstern announced his retirement Friday. Morgenstern helped Austria win silver in the team event at the Sochi Games. The 27-year-old Morgenstern struggled after suffering a cranial injury and lung contusion in a training accident at the start of the year. “I have reached my athletic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}