What Is It With Athletes Not Getting Retirement?
There’s always plenty of talk whenever an athlete says that he or she is going to be retiring from the sport. The challenge is that there are plenty of professional athletes who don’t seem to understand exactly what retirement is or what retiring means because they’re often right back in front of the cameras announcing their return as soon as the sports media stops talking about it.
Roger Clemens has been the king of sports retirement in this sense. Often saying that he’s done with baseball for good only to come back out on the pitching mound the next season. Brett Favre did it with football, retiring in March and then staging a comeback as training camps and pre-season games were about to get underway.
The latest athlete who seems to be thinking about coming out of retirement is cycling’s Lance Armstrong - winner of the most Tour de France titles ever. So far there is nothing definite about Armstrong getting back onto his bike to ride, but the word is out that his manager has inquired about anti-doping tests - something that likely wouldn’t be an issue if he were not planning to return.
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