Winter sports: Skeleton Olympic champion Grotheer: 2026 Olympics final goal

Skeleton Olympic champion Christopher Grotheer (32) wants to continue his career until the 2026 Winter Games despite thoughts of retirement. “That is my final sporting goal. This wasn’t so certain in the spring. “I really briefly considered quitting because I was simply dissatisfied,” Grotheer told the “Thüringer Allgemeine”. After his third world title, he was looking for new motivation.

The Olympic champion was no longer satisfied with his athletic training in particular. He switched to Alexander Rödiger, a long-time pusher for bobsleigh icon André Lange. “It creates new stimuli and entrenched structures are broken up. Load control is important. “I train almost age-appropriately and I needed the change,” said Grotheer. He got through the summer and fall without injuries, which hasn’t always been the case recently. There were often muscle injuries before the start of the season.