Olympic champion Tanja Frieden has retired due to injury three weeks before she was set to defend her snowboardcross title at the Vancouver Games.
The 33-year-old Swiss says her competitive race career is over after tearing both Achilles tendons at a World Cup meeting last week in Stoneham, Canada.
Frieden spoke tearfully Tuesday at a news conference from a wheelchair after undergoing surgery on Saturday.
Frieden won gold ahead of Lindsey Jacobellis from the United States when snowboardcross debuted as an Olympic sport at the 2006 Turin Winter Games.
Jacobellis appeared set for victory but fell when grabbing her board at the next-to-last jump and had to settle for silver.
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