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Mauro Caviezel loves hockey. In the industrial zone of Chur, he trains regularly in the same torture chamber as NHL star Nino Niederreiter.
But in the second week of June, a floorball game after Kondi’s training is his downfall. The 32-year-old faces a two-on-two duel with his coach Tom Jäger against his younger brother Gino (28) and Thomas Tumler.
Suddenly, the man who won the little Super-G ball without winning last winter makes a misstep without counter influence and tears the Achilles tendon in his left foot.
Ten days after the operation, Mauro tells BLICK: “My doctors assume that it will be six months before my first training in the snow. So the first races of the sprint world cup next winter will probably be without me. “
But then everything goes much faster. Caviezel is making so much progress in rehab that he will be back on skis in early October. And at the end of October, he was again setting the best times in the team’s internal training compared to Beat Feuz.
Compressed after a training crash
But a few days before leaving for the first match of the World Cup of Speed in Val-d’Isère, the Graubünden resident in Pfäffikon SZ has to face the next setback. Caviezel flies poorly in downhill training at St. Moritz, his hips swelling violently.
On the way home, Mauro takes pride in a former racing driver colleague: “Mauro, you finally have to learn to better measure your training runs. You fail at least five times a year in training, that’s too much. You don’t always have to give 120 percent, it’s enough if you only drive 80 percent during training. “
Beltrametti had an accident on the winning slope of Caviezel
But this guy at full throttle can’t help but push himself to the limit. And that’s exactly why he pulled off one of the most impressive comebacks in Alpine history on Saturday in France with heavy snow and poor visibility.
In his 104th World Cup race, the son of an eyewear designer celebrates his first World Cup victory after six second places. And everyone’s at the “Piste La Daille”, where his great idol Silvano Beltrametti landed 19 years ago after a downhill fall with paraplegia in a wheelchair.
«As a child I always wanted to be like Silvano and I kept up to date with how he trains. I soaked up all the reports on him. At some point I saw on television Silvano bending down a hill in his ski boots on an exercise ball. When I was 13, I did it for the first time. “
How his idol became his fan
A few years ago, the coach and childhood friend of Mauro Beltrametti signed Tom Jäger as a condi coach. And now Beltrametti is one of Caviezel’s biggest fans. “There is no other racing driver in the ski circus who is as physically strong as Mauro. I’m also impressed by their enormous willingness to take risks. “
Beltrametti is thinking about Caviezel’s crazy jump, which he made last winter over the Hundschopf in the combined downhill at Wengen. “When I was active, you always said you were an extremely wild dog if you touched the dog’s head with a stick. Mauro even touched the net with his ski boot – sensational! “
Of course, Caviezel also feels sensational now that he can finally wave from the top step of the podium. “I really can’t believe I won this race. After the downhill training the day before, I had a bad feeling. “I bet Mauro Caviezel will start the downhill race today with a grandiose feeling?
