They are enjoying their new family happiness.

Twins: Former ski star in great baby joy

While his former colleagues are slowly but surely getting into World Cup mode, a Swiss ex-ski star has a very special reason to celebrate. He has become the father of twins.

18 November 2024

From: det

In his career as a skier, Mauro Caviezel has raced down the fastest slopes in the world. Now he is racing full speed into parenthood: his wife Nina gave birth to twins a week ago.

"Welcome to the family," wrote the 36-year-old Swiss, adding two angel emojis. On November 11, the two new arrivals were born - a boy and a girl, mind you. Caviezel welcomed Nala Rose and Maleo Mauro with lots of love. "I'm so excited to show you the world," Caviezel wrote on the Instagram post.

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The Swiss is in luck. This was not always the case during his skiing career. He had to end his career early due to injury. In 2021, the Swiss suffered a head injury in a training fall that kept him off the slopes for almost two years. A further traumatic brain injury ultimately caused Caviezel to end his career with a heavy heart in January 2023.

He met his wife at her sickbed

The Swiss celebrated great successes, winning the Super-G ranking in the 2019/20 season and making it onto the World Cup podium a total of twelve times. In 2017, he won silver in the World Championships in the combined event. Incidentally, Caviezel met his wife Nina at her hospital bed. After a torn Achilles tendon in the summer of 2020, there was a spark between the nurse and the ski star. That's what you call a blessing in disguise.