Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami, 34, retiring after 2026 Olympic season

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 1:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Two-time wide World Cup champion Lara Gut-Behrami intends connected retiring aft the upcoming Olympic season.

The Swiss skier revealed her plans astatine a sponsor's lawsuit successful Zurich.

The 34-year-old Gut-Behrami said she wants to determination to London adjacent twelvemonth to articulation her husband, erstwhile Switzerland planetary Valon Behrami, who she said was taking implicit arsenic sporting manager astatine English shot nine Watford.

"I surely won't beryllium a cleaning lady," Gut-Behrami said this week, portion hinting she would similar to go a mother.

Gut-Behrami won her wide titles successful 2015-16 and 2023-24 and has 48 World Cup victories, bully for 5th connected the all-time women's list. She besides won golden successful super-G and bronze successful elephantine slalom astatine the 2022 Beijing Olympics, positive a bronze successful downhill astatine the 2014 Sochi Games.

One of Gut-Behrami's champion performances came astatine the 2021 satellite championships successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, wherever she swept golden successful super-G and elephantine slalom and took bronze successful downhill.

Cortina volition big women's skiing successful the Winter Games successful February, which would beryllium Gut-Behrami's 4th Olympics. She missed the 2010 Vancouver Games owed to injury.

Gut-Behrami made her World Cup debut astatine property 16 successful 2007.

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