Author: LetzebuergSkeleton
Tageblatt Article Nov 2024
Jeff Bauer also continues to dream of competing on Olympic ice with skates. A few days ago, the 51-year-old COSL elite athlete set off for the two-week training camp in Whistler, Canada, extremely motivated. Due to persistent back problems, he had hip surgery about a year ago, missed the entire season and was only able to train on his sled in the ice rink again in March. He says: “The recovery was long and painful, but now I feel good and strong. At the end of the month I will compete in the North American Cup in Whistler, before races in Park City in December and January. Then it’s on to the Olympic course in Lake Placid. Only then will I travel to Europe for the World Cup in Lillehammer. I chose the races so that I can train as much as possible in between. In addition, these are the same ice channels in which I will compete to qualify for the games next year.”
Tageblatt Article November 2022
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Jeff Bauer 17th in the European Cup
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Luxembourg skeleton racer Jeff Bauer is also working on his Austrian tracks this season with the Austrian national team coaches Robin Pieper and Alex Auer.
What he learned during the European Cup in Lillehammer this past weekend paid off. After finishing 46th in the first run on Friday, he qualified on Saturday in a field of seven better-known competitors for the second run, where he ultimately improved by moving up one position. He made up the deficit to the Chinese racer Zi Hu Haifeng and defended 17th place.
Tageblatt Article | Luxembourg Skeleton | 16 Nov 2021
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Tageblatt Article | Luxembourg Skeleton | 11 Nov 2021
Tageblatt 11 Nov 2021
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A month ago, the 48-year-old left for one last week of intensive training in Altenberg, Germany, where he is expected to contest his last race of the qualifying phase, which will last until mid-February. Then we went to Whistler Mountain, Canada for training and competition preparation. The first races of the “North American Cup” were scheduled there.
The competition in the continental racing series was unusually strong: “Since it is an Olympic year, many nations also use their teams from the Intercontinental Cup in the smaller American series in order to collect as many points as possible and maybe a second or third To secure a starting place ”, explains Jeff Bauer. After the first race on Sunday he was not satisfied: “I’m not so happy because I had a small crash in the sixth corner. But I’m glad that I got back on the sled properly and finished the run normally. ”23rd, 2.59 seconds behind the Austrian winner Alexander Schlintner (53.71 seconds), he left five competitors behind.
In the second race on Monday the curve fit better, but with 1.97 seconds behind the winner of the previous day, he lost one place. “The run was better, but a few too many small mistakes prevented a faster run. The ice is faster than last week in training and I’m still adapting, ”he analyzed afterwards.
Not an easy task on the world’s fastest route at 145 km / h. But all good things come in threes, and on Monday, finishing 19th, he finally qualified for the second round. He was unleashed there in twelfth place, 1.69 and 1.02 seconds behind Canada’s Evan Neufeldt overall -17. and collected first points. The decisive factor was the difficult turn 6, with the fourth in Altenberg the greatest challenge in sledging. Jeff Bauer said: “Last week I crashed hard on my back in practice at the exit of that corner. I trained them well, but I also fell in the first race, which hurt a lot again. In the second race I was still nervous about the corner. In order not to fall, I drove them too hard and lost time. Today I felt ok in the curve. and had a great run. So I ran it on the second run and had a great run. That was a great feeling that I want to take with me into the races next week. ”Then again in Whistler the Intercontinental Cup will be about significantly more points for the dream of the Olympics.