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    7 READING When you hear the final whistle TE) One of the hardest things for any sportsperson (o\do isto know when to retire. Do you retire when you are at your physical ‘peak’ or do you wait untit your body (or your coach) tells you that it's time to go? But even harder is finding the answer to the question ‘What am | going to do with the rest of my life” a "There's a high risk of depression and people often find adjusting toa new way of life difficult’, says !an Cockerill, a sports psychologist For sportspeople, there's an extra trauma — the loss of status, the loss of recognition, and the loss of the glamour, That's the hardest part.’ As Eddie Acaro, the US jockey says, ‘When a jackey retires, he becomes just another little man, —______. Perhaps they just canftstand life without the ‘high’ of playing professional sport. Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time, retired three times. He retired once from the Chicago Bulls, made a successful comeback with the Bulls, then retired again. His second comeback with an inferior team ended in failure and he retired for ever at the age of 38. Jordan said, ‘There will never be anything 1 do that will fulfil me as much as competing did” a) Muharnmad Ali needed the money, but his comeback fight, atthe age f 38, against Trevor Berbick, was one af the saddest spectacles in modern spor. Ater losing to Berbick, Ali ceived permanently. Thre years later he developed Parkinson's disease i: __. As jimmy Greaves, an excEngland international footballer said, ‘t think that a lot of players would prefer to be shot ance their career is over’ Many of ther spend their retirement in a

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