North America Competition Park City Tageblatt Dec 2024

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Skeleton: Jeff Bauer overcomes injury.  Despite very poor starting times on Friday, he finished seventh and tenth overall in 2.41 seconds. On Saturday, he finished eighth and fifth overall in 2.09 seconds. This put him just 5/100 behind the young Canadian Josip Brusic, who is now third in this championship, just ahead of the Luxembourg skeleton pioneer. It was painful, but it worked out OK. The strain has time to heal until the next race in a month," said Bauer happily. (ChB) On his home course in Park City, USA, Jeff Bauer started the second race of the North American Championship and pulled his hamstring tendon in the starting sprint of the first run: During the second run I could only jog. The next day the tendon was hard and swollen, but I started anyway. Luckily I know the course well, know how to gain speed there and had also learned to start acceptably despite my injury." The 52-year-old was placed among 20 competitors.

Tageblatt Article December 2024 … a podium finish

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In use again JEFF BAUER 22 months after his 36th place at the World Championships in St. Moritz, but also over a year after his back operation, the still ambitious Jeff Bauer started a race with his skeleton again. In the double victory of the Austrian Florian Auer, he finished seventh out of 15 starters in the North American Championships on the first day, 4.21 seconds behind. On the second day, the 52-year-old was delighted with fifth place in 3.71 seconds: “That feels really good. Last year at this time I was on crutches and now I’m winning the first award for Luxembourg in the skeleton.” (ChB.)

Tageblatt Article Nov 2024

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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.”