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Former world champion Erik Lesser of Germany is ending his career after the season instead of adding another year to compete at the home world championships in Oberhof. Lesser, 33, said on Thursday he would call it quits after the final three World Cup stops of the season. “That’s it for me. I am packing my stuff, do the three World Cups and then: Adios Amigos! That’s it for me and that is quite fitting,” Lesser said in his podcast The Biathlon Double Room. “Many may ask: ‘why don’t you do the home worlds in Oberhof? But that would be another year-long slog.” Lesser is the third prominent memb…