If the focus and desire is gone, is it time for Tiger Woods to call it a day?
Leave it too long and you risk tarnishing your legacy with a string of poor, or even downright embarrassing performances which detract from previous medal or title-winning displays.
Leave it too long in sports such as boxing and the danger is also of a physical and far greater nature, with many fighters suffering the long-term consequences of taking on one fight too many.
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