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• Wed Jun 11 2025

Dave Ryding, Britain's most successful alpine ski racer, is to retire at the end of the 2025-26 season.

Known as 'the Rocket', in 2022 slalom specialist Ryding became the first British alpine skier to win World Cup gold.

Earlier this year, he sealed the nation's best men's World Championship result since 1934 by finishing sixth.

February's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will mark 38-year-old Ryding's fifth and final Games.

"I'm committed to doing one more year all in and seeing what we can achieve," he told BBC Sport.

"Everything feels right now to draw a line after the Olympics while my body's good. I'm still at the top of the sport and still able to compete with the best, I still feel I can go all in.

"I sit here with no niggles, no pains in my body, which is really rare in skiing.

"I don't want the legs to fall off, it's not fun if the legs fall off mid-season. So while I still can, I'll do all I can to be the best in the world."