{"id":2564,"date":"2023-01-28T23:56:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sixday.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:08:30","slug":"emotional-farewell-for-maximilian-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/2023\/01\/28\/emotional-farewell-for-maximilian-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional farewell for Maximilian Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;177276&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Berlin 28 January 2023.<\/strong> An emotional farewell after a unique career celebrated at the 110th Berlin six-day race crowd favorite Maximilian Levy. The three-time Olympic medalist and four-time world champion was frenetically celebrated with chants and standing ovations in the packed Velodrom. The 35-year-old won nine times at the Six Day in Berlin, the last time in 2020. In 2021, the Berlin-born athlete ended his career after his fourth Olympic Games, but because of Corona, it was only now that he had his well-deserved farewell lap of honor &#8211; and it was a tough one. In 12.670 seconds for the flying lap, Levy once again proved his extra class to his favorite song &#8220;Mr. Boombastic.&#8221; Even without training.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most beautiful thing for a sprinter was always the lap record. I&#8217;ve raced here 84 times so far and actually wanted to complete the 100. Unfortunately, that didn&#8217;t work out because of Corona &#8211; but I will enjoy this one lap again,&#8221; said Levy, who went on his farewell ride with a specially made special jersey. Carried by the audience, including his mother Miriam, his father Rainer, life partner Emma Hinze and many companions, the clocks stopped well before the targeted 13-second mark. &#8220;It was a lot of fun. Age doesn&#8217;t protect you from performance,&#8221; Levy said, tearfully thanking his parents and appealing to the spectators after his run through the line of other racers. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad they let me go back then (to sports school) to make my dream come true. And send your kids to sports &#8211; it&#8217;s a good thing. They don&#8217;t have to become world champions, they just have to have fun,&#8221; Maximilian Levy said.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;177276&#8243;] Berlin 28 January 2023. An emotional farewell after a unique career celebrated at the 110th Berlin six-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixdayweekend.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}