From Alain Prost to Szczesny: They returned to do a miracle

Wojciech Szczesny (football)

The Polish Soccer Gate, previously in Arsenal and Roma, retired from Juventus at the age of 34 in August 2024. In the autumn, there was an opportunity he couldn’t say no, Barcelona was looking for goalkeeper because of a serious injury to Marc-André Ter Stegen. Szczesny accepted the Catalans’ offer in October, and his return went so well that it could be read in the spring and extended his summer contract with the pomegranate-blue.

Kiss Flower (basketball)

The center of Győr and the Hungarian national team decided at the age of 17 to suspend their career after he was scattered from basketball. He graduated, went to university for a year and finally returned to the track after a two break. Since then, he has become a key player in the adult national team, with the biggest success in the 2023 European Championship fourth with the national team.

Alain Prost (Formula 1)

The four-time world champion F1 legend was kicked out by Ferrari during the bad 1991 season after making a spicy comment on his car, saying it was easier to drive a tractor. As the French contract required that it could not contract anywhere else by 1992, it was forced to sit next season, working as a television commentator. After a year of skipping, he contracted with Williams, winning his fourth World Cup title in 1993.

Timea Nagy (fencing)

Many of the women returning to the top sports after giving birth is the two -time Olympic champion Timea Nagy It comes to mind – not by chance, as the former class duel fencer gave birth to three children and reached the top after all three. After the birth of his 54-year-old great first child, Csenge, he won Olympic gold in 2000, then defended his five-ring title in Athens after Luca’s world. Chanad came third, and shortly afterwards, the fencer became an individual world champion.

Michael Phelps (swimming)

The 23-time Olympic champion, the most successful swimmer of all time, announced that he would retire after London at the age of 26 before the 2012 Olympics. At that time, he said he would travel to the 2016 Rio games at most as spectators, but that was not the case, he returned in April 2014. In Rio de Janeiro, he was again 31 years old, enriched with five gold and one silver medals.