{"id":8296,"date":"2021-05-07T23:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:38:50","slug":"germanys-faris-al-sultan-retires-from-pro-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8296","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Faris Al-Sultan retires from pro triathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click:<a href=\"https:\/\/chenohome.com\/\">\u88dd\u4fee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>German pro Faris Al-Sultan has retired from top-flight triathlon after 18 years in the sport, calling it a day after dropping out from Ironman Texas last weekend with pain in his hamstrings.<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking to commentator Bob Babbitt\u2019s Babbittville Radio, Al-Sultan said he\u2019s been \u201cstruggling more with the injuries than actually training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe most important thing is your brain \u2013 if you\u2019re mentally no longer there to really be there 100 percent, then it\u2019s hard. Yesterday I realised that, \u2018OK, I\u2019ve had so many bad races, and I can\u2019t stand having one more bad race.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019d like to wish a happy retirement to 2005 IRONMAN World Champ Faris Al-Sultan! Thank you for a memorable 18 years. pic.twitter.com\/4voZCKuHqS<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) May 19, 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He did say that he may do a few more short-distance races this summer, but other than that is undecided whether to move into triathlon coaching or something else entirely separate from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Sultan has a string of top-flight results to his name, including winning the Ironman World Champs in Kona in 2005, taking silver at the same race in 2004 and 2006, and more recently winning the Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.storerwc.com\/chiefs.html' title='Chiefs rugby store'>Chiefs rugby store<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can listen to the Babbittville Radio interview here.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click:\u88dd\u4fee German pro Faris Al-Sultan has retired from top-flight triathlon after 18 years in the sport, calling it a day after dropping out from Ironman Texas last weekend with pain in his hamstrings. Advertisement Speaking to commentator Bob Babbitt\u2019s Babbittville Radio, Al-Sultan said he\u2019s been \u201cstruggling more with the injuries than actually training.\u201d He added:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11988,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}