Michael Vogt will open his season this Saturday. Having undergone back surgery on August 19, the best Swiss driver is heading into this winter with relative caution.
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“It was not a major operation,” underlines the Schwyz resident in an interview with Keystone-ATS. But since it’s the back, nothing is really simple…” Michael Vogt thus had to wait three months to regain his full strength. He logically skipped the first World Cup events to attend a two-week training camp before the holidays in Lillehammer. Today, the time has come to get back on track, this weekend in Winterberg with the two-man bob on Saturday and the four-man bob on Sunday.
The Schwyz resident believes that his best chances now lie in the four-man bobsleigh. It requires a physical commitment only in two-man bobsleigh. In the two-man bob, he can no longer count on the services of his brakeman Sandro Michel after the terrible accident which both men suffered last February in Altenberg.
Even if he hopes to shine in two months at the World Championships in Lake Placid on a track he likes, Michael Vogt is putting his cards on the table. “I won’t take all the risks this winter in training to gain the hundredths that are missing,” he says. In my eyes, the only things that matter are the Cortina Games in 2026.” In view of this supreme meeting, Michael Vogt delivers a first crucial lesson: “my back is holding up!”
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