Olympic halfpipe champ Farrington retires

LOS ANGELES, California: Kaitlyn Farrington, who upset three former Olympic champions to take halfpipe snowboarding gold at the Sochi Games, is retiring at 25 because of degenerative spinal condition.
“The past few months have been really difficult,” the American said in a post on her Instagram account on Thursday night.
“I’ve met with many specialists and they all confirmed I have congenital cervical stenosis of my spine,
“It is a condition I was born with and never knew I had until a recent fall in Austria led me to get an MRI.”