Canadian speed skater Cindy Klassen, who won a Games-leading five medals at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics, is expected to announce her retirement at a press conference scheduled for Saturday, according to The Associated Press.
Klassen, 35, won six Olympic medals total, highlighted by 1500m gold in 2006, and tied with fellow speed skater (and cyclist) Clara Hughes for the most Olympic medals earned by a Canadian.
She also claimed five World Allround Championships medals, including two golds, and 11 World Single Distance Championships medals.
She leads the women’s Adelskalender, a calculation averaging personal-best times over a career for all speed skaters in history, which favors more recent skaters given times are faster now than a decade or two ago.