11. Juli 2011  
Lucerne, Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

Ariella KAESLIN - an absolute surprisingly Retiremen!

Ariella Kaeslin (SUI),
ab solute surprisingly retirement!

Ariella Kaeslin, Switzerland’s most successful-ever gymnast, has said today, she is quitting the sport just a year before the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

The popular 23-year-old from Lucerne, who was named Swiss Sportswoman of the Year a record three times in a row from 2008-2010, said she was struggling to reach the physical fitness needed for a professional athlete.
“Ultimately I would no longer have been able to compete in top-level sport. That would have meant that I couldn’t achieve aims which I set myself,” she said at a news conference on Monday in a Hotel in Lucerne.

She looked back at highlights of a career that lasted more than ten years ...

Sprung-Europameisterin vor zwei Jahren in Mailand

Highlights of her career ...
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These include fifth place at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and a year later becoming the first Swiss woman to win a medal at the European championships in Milan (ITA) , where she took one gold (in the vault) and one bronze (in the all-around competition).

In October 2009 she became the first Swiss woman to win a medal in artistic gymnastics in a world championship competition, in London – a silver in the vault.

In this spring once again Ariella won a vault medal at the 2011 Europeans in Berlin ...!

Hotel Schweizerhof in Lucerne, today:
... absolute surprisingly Ariella KAESLIN informed the Swiss media at a press conference her retirement of top-sport ...
So Switzerland loose one of its Olympic medal hope for London 2012 ...

In a very emotional Interview  ("BLICK" -SUI) she spohke about her personal cause:
* VIDEO (blick.ch) --:

Goodbye, Ari ...!
... once again the Swiss media "BLICK.ch" presents the most impressive moments of a remarkable career of the best Swiss gymnast of all times ...!
* VIDEO (blick.ch) --:

* Source: blick.ch