Ashton Eaton, the world record holder and two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon, has announced his retirement from track and field at the age of 28 on Tuesday.
In a joint-letter to supports with his wife, Olympic bronze medalist Brianne Theisen-Eaton, the couple announced their decision to retire on their personal websites.
“It has been 10 years since then (secretly I find that fitting) and it’s my time to depart from athletics; to do something new,” Ashton Eaton wrote. “Frankly there isn’t much more I want to do in sport. I gave the most physically robust years of my life to the discovery and pursuit of my limits in this domain.