Sandro Michel remains in intensive care
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Swiss bobsledder Sandro Michel remains in intensive care at Dresden University Hospital in eastern Germany after undergoing a second operation for serious injuries sustained in the Altenberg bobsleigh crash.
Swiss bobsledder Sandro Michel remains in intensive care at Dresden University Hospital in eastern Germany after undergoing a second operation for serious injuries sustained in the Altenberg bobsleigh crash.
Almost a century after bobsleigh was recognised as an Olympic sport at the 1924 Winter Games, 96 years later at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games, six disciplines were included in the programme (2-man bobsleigh, 2-woman bobsleigh, 4-man bobsleigh, women's monobob, women's skeleton, and men's skeleton).
For the Olympic silver medallist in 2022, it was his first win in the four-man bobsleigh since 2020, but the next day he added his second win. The German is unstoppable. On the first day, with push athletes Georg Fleischhauer, Erec Bruckert, and Florian Bauer, Lochner relegated his teammate.
The duo Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer wins the opening of the BMW IBSF World Cup 2023-2024 season. Lochner, the world champion in bobsleigh 2023, is also the winner of the first winter race held at the Yanqing Sliding Centre (China), the same track used in the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing
American bobsledder Aja Evans has filed a lawsuit in a court in New York alleging she was sexually abused by a chiropractor who was working with the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (USABS).
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has taken no decision on a return for Russian athletes at its Congress in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
Although bobsledder Carl-Erik Eriksson never won an Olympic medal, he has has been hailed on his passing at the age of 93 as his country's greatest Olympian by the Swedish Skating, Luge and Roller Sports Association (SweSliding).
Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton (BCS) has said an independent investigation into a safe-sport complaint by three-time Olympic gold medallist Kaillie Humphries found "no evidence that any of the allegations constituted harassment".
Swiss Sliding has strengthened its coaching team prior to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo with a trio of acquisitions in the form of Wolfram Lösch, Wolfgang Adler, and Marina Gilardoni.
Olympic bobsleigh gold medallist Jean Wicki has died just one week short of his 90th birthday.
Russia’s Junior World Bobsleigh Championships silver medallist Vladimir Zaitsev has died at the age of 31 from cancer.
Latvia’s retired six-times world champion Martins Dukurs is extending his coaching role with the British skeleton team until the end of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) have announced that bobsledder Quentin Willey accepted the findings of a positive doping test and is to be banned for three years.
Marina Gilardoni, a World Championship silver medallist, is to join Swiss Sliding as the head of its skeleton division, it has been announced.
Brothers Adam and Issam Ammour plan to compete together in two-man bobsleigh for Germany next season.