Link to original article  Tageblatt 27 Oct 2021

Translation

Jeff Bauer would be 48 years old at a possible Olympic premiere

A Luxembourgish winter sports enthusiast can hardly be more exotic than Jeff Bauer. The sports with sledges are dominated by a few nations and while the bobsleigh athletes and tobogganists like the Luxembourgers of 1928 and 1936 slide down the ice rink on the very best, the skeleton pilots have been throwing themselves headlong into the games since 2002 (and before that in 1928 and 1948) Ice chute. The sports-crazy former basketball player of the youth national team discovered his passion for this sport late, but has been pursuing his Olympic dream consistently ever since. Since he lived in the Grand Duchy for ten years as a teenager, Jeff Bauer received the Luxembourg nationality in 2018 and established himself as the fastest from the “exotic” countries as 31st at the 2019 and 2021 World Championships. At his Olympic premiere in Beijing he would be 48, but with his commitment, Bauer convinced both the COSL and the FLSG association and is training full-time with the Austrian team this winter. As 57th in the world rankings, he would have just made the criterion of the world’s best 60 last season. Since the skeleton riders will give their colleagues five starting positions in 2022, the ambitious athlete will have to achieve one of only 25 starting positions for a total of 15 nations.