Austria's Eberharter Retires
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Stephan Eberharter announced his  retirement on Friday after a decade and a half as a leading  light of the Austrian Alpine skiing team.
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Swedish tennis player Joachim Johansson, who once reached number nine in the world, announced his retirement on Friday at the age of 25 because of a long-standing shoulder injury.
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Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich retired from cycling Monday amid continuing investigations of his alleged role in a Spanish doping scandal.
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Thomas Holtrop has quit as head of Germany's second-biggest travel and tourism group Thomas Cook following a row with other board members.
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Harley-Davidson Inc. on Thursday said Jeffrey L. Bleustein will retire from his position as chief executive on April 30 after 30 years at the company.
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He is retiring from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, where he blew a mellow horn, but Russian soldiers once fired at a photograph of this veteran musician.
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Former France captain Raphael Ibanez announces his retirement from international rugby.
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MONZA, Italy  - Michael Schumacher, the most   successful Formula One driver of all time, said on Sunday that   he was retiring from the sport at the end of the season.
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The Austrian Ski Federation gave lifetime bans to Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann, both retired biathletes, and the former coaches Emil Hoch and Walter Mayer yesterday because of their involvement with blood doping at the 2006 Turin Olympics.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Sports Network) - Ohio State athletic  director Anthony Geiger retired at an afternoon press  conference Wednesday.
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Seve Ballesteros officially retired from competition Monday, ending a charismatic career filled with five major championships, a record 50 victories on the European Tour and a fighting spirit that reinvigorated Europe in the Ryder Cup.
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Germany's BMW AG said Monday the head of its ultra-luxury Rolls-Royce car brand, Karl-Heinz Kalbfell, has resigned to take up new responsibilities outside the company, which has been struggling to meet its ...
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LOS ANGELES - Michael Eisner, who helped transform The Walt Disney Co. into a media powerhouse, but has come under increasing pressure recently to improve the company's lagging performance, will retire after more than two decades as CEO, the company said Friday...
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BERLIN - Germany&#39;s BMW AG said Monday the head of its ultra-luxury Rolls-Royce car brand, Karl-Heinz Kalbfell, has resigned to take up &quot;new responsibilities&quot; outside the company, which has been struggling to meet its sales targets for the superluxury brand
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Two-time world rallying champion Carlos Sainz&#39;s career ended Wednesday - one race short of his scheduled retirement. The 42-year-old Spaniard had planned to call it quits after the
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Ronald Waterreus, the veteran Dutch goalkeeper for the Red Bulls, announced Friday that he would retire at the end of the season.
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Anwar Ibrahim, former deputy prime minister of Malaysia, departed the country Saturday to receive medical attention in Germany.