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VIENNA, Austria -- Austrian skier Marlies Schild retired Tuesday, ending a career in which she overcame several serious injuries before setting the womens record for most World Cup slalom wins. "The time has come for a new chapter in my life," the 33-year-old Schild said. "I have been able to realize the dreams I had as a little girl. I am thankful for that. But your goals change and so do your priorities in life. My biggest wish is to have a family." Schild won her 35th career slalom event in Lienz in December, beating a 19-year-old mark set by Swiss great Vreni Schneider. Schild earned four crystal globes as the seasons best slalom skier and became the disciplines world champion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2011. She also won four Olympic medals but failed to take gold. "It was a great and intensive time," said Schild, who is in a long-term relationship with 2006 overall World Cup champion Benjamin Raich. "Garmisch was definitely one of my greatest successes. Benni got injured that week and that made me even more eager to take the gold." Schilds retirement wasnt unexpected. She announced after her last race at the World Cup finals in March that she would consider ending her career, and she didnt join her Austrian teammates two weeks ago when they flew to New Zealand for the annual pre-season training camp. The Austrian likely would have broken Schneiders record earlier if her career hadnt been marred by injuries. Schild missed the entire 2008-09 campaign after breaking her left lower leg two weeks before the season-opening race in Soelden in October 2008, and was out for months after damaging her right knee in pre-race warmups for a slalom in Are in December 2012. In fact, suffering from knee injuries as a teenager forced Schild to reduce racing in speed events and specialize in the more technical disciplines, slalom and GS. "I am proud that I managed to fight my way back to the top time after time," she said. "I am a fighter and somehow Ive always found ways to battle back. But now, I cant ski the perfect slalom anymore. Its still good, but not as good as in my best years." Schild took over from Janica Kostelic as the dominant force in womens slalom skiing after the three-time overall champion from Croatia retired in 2007. The Austrian won her first globe that year and repeated the feat in 2008, 2011 and 2012. "Marlies Schild is an extraordinary athlete," said Hans Pum, the sport director of the Austrian ski federation. "She has brought new dimensions to ski racing. Her skiing technique is unique and the way she handled the setbacks in her career is admirable." With the soft-spoken Schild, ski-mad Austria is losing one of its most beloved athletes. Despite her successes on the slopes, Schild has kept a down-to-earth profile and seemed more at ease away from the limelight, though she has been appearing alongside Raich for many years in TV commercials for an Austrian insurance company. "(She) can be very happy with her career achievements," Raich said. "I had the feeling at the end of last season that she might decide this way. Its not an easy step for her but she can be grateful for everything that was." The 36-year-old Raich also considered retirement in the off-season after persistent back problems but has decided to extend his career for at least another season. Schild has won four Olympic medals, more than any other female skier from Austria. However, a gold medal is missing after her 12-year-career. In her first year on the circuit, she failed to finish the slalom at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. Four years later, she earned bronze -- and a silver in the combined event -- in Turin. In Vancouver in 2010, Schild got silver after being beaten for the title by German rival Maria-Hoefl Riesch, who retired in March. This year in Sochi, Schild again came runner-up, this time to Mikaela Shiffrin. 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Amazingly, less than 48 hours after surgery to insert a titanium rod and three screws in his left tibia, the 38-year-old Brazilian was up on crutches, accorded to the surgeon. "Its amazing because I dont know if I would be able to do it that quickly," said Sanders. And the surgeon said Silvas question prior to the operation was when could he train again. Still the former middleweight champion is spending most of his time in his hospital bed, at this stage, with his leg in a posterior splint. "Hes behaving as anyone would who had just broke both their bones violently and then had a 11.5-millimetre-diameter rod stuck down the intramedullary canal of your tibia. It hurts quite a bit," Sanders said. The fighter is expected to stay in hospital for a few more days and faces a long recovery before he could compete in the cage again. But Sanders says Silva will eventually be able to resume mixed martial arts. The surgeon expects the fighters fractures to heal in three to six months, with a time frame of six to nine months before trying to resume training. "The expectation is positive," Sanders said. Silva (33-6) will be able to do some rehab work, to put some weight on the leg "in the near future as we get though this acute pain phase." Saturdays fight was stopped at 1:16 of the second round, with current middleweight champion Chris Weidman declared the winner as doctors attended to a writhing Silva. Silva broke both the tibia and fibula in his lower left leg kicking Weidman in the main event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Weidman checked the kick, meaning Silva went bone-one-bone. His leg snapped about a third of the way up the tibia from the ankle, causing his essentially untethered ankle and foot to swing around Weidmans leg in an stomach-churning moment. Silva, who up until his upset loss to Weidman in July at UFC 162 was considered the top pound-for-pound fighter on the planet, collapsed in agony. Sanders called it "horrific pain." Sanders said Dr. Anthony Ruggeroli immediately realigned the limb and applied traction, helping prevent the injuryy from getting worse.dddddddddddd Silva was stretchered outside the cage under the direction of Dr. Jeff Davidson and taken to a waiting ambulance, which transported him to University Medical Centre Hospital, a Level 1 trauma centre. The operation lasted about an hour, with the rod inserted into his leg at the front of the knee, with a screw at the top and two at the bottom to stabilize the bone. While the fibula was also broken, Sanders elected not to operate on that bone because it would have required an incision at the site of the break, opening Silva up to the risk of infection -- among other reasons. Sanders says the fibula could heal on its own, adding he saw no evidence from X-rays there was an predisposition to a break. The surgeon called Silvas fracture "fairly severe," given the fact that the skin was essentially holding the leg together. That means the tissues that normally surround the bone, and help with the healing, have undergone trauma. The soft tissue recovery is "more of a variable" than the bone repair, said Sanders. The injury, while horrific to watch, could have been worse, with Sanders listing off the elements of a worse case scenario -- a break near the joint, the skin breaking, tearing a blood vessel challenging blood supply to the foot. "Unfortunately in my line of work, things can always sometimes be worse," he said. That includes "limb-threatening" if the fracture compromises vascular support to the foot. Silvas dramatic injury -- which Sanders pithily described as "an abnormal bend in the leg at a place where its not supposed to bend" -- was "extremely close" to being much worse On the plus side, the straight nature of the break will help in rehab, since a spiral fracture can "unwind." And the surgeon said the rehab wont be as intense as when fighters injure knee ligaments. The titanium rod can be removed at a later date or can stay in Silvas leg, Sanders added. "For whatever reason, humans like titanium." Sanders has worked with the UFC for more than a decade and has practised in Las Vegas since 1991, working with boxers prior to MMA fighters. Sivas injury recalled that of Corey Hill, who broke his leg while throwing a kick that was checked by Dale Hartt on a UFC card in December 2008. Hill returned to action in January 2010 and has gone 4-3 since, although not in the UFC. UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon (Bones) Jones said Silvas injury will not change his approach to fighting. "No Andersons last fight will not change my psychology towards kicking at all, that was just an extremely unfortunate situation," Jones tweeted. ' ' '