he took sixth place in the Saturday jumping World Cup competition in Engelberg (Karl Geiger won, Ryoyu Kobayashi was second and Timi Zajc was third). You don’t want to write about other Poles. He took 48th place out of 49 classified positions. Jakub Wolny and Paweł Wąsek were not much better – they took 44th and 45th place respectively. And Andrzej Stękała, although he was 35, did not even come close to being promoted to the second round – he was also missing 7.3 points.
“David is like that”
– Massacre. What should I say? – he replies broken when we ask him for a comment. – Kamil okay, the rest are very bad – he adds.
Kubacki’s attitude is the most worrying. The world champion and winner of the 4-Hills-Tournament scored this winter in only one of the six starts. Last week he missed the World Cup competitions in Klingenthal and trained with Wolny, Stękała and Klemens Murańka in Ramsau. He was supposed to come back in better shape, while on Friday he barely made it through qualifying – he was 48th – and in Saturday’s competition he was better than just one jumper, Anders Fannemel.
The worst thing is that Kubacki said after Friday qualifying in front of the Eurosport camera that his feeling of that jump was good. And that he will only find out about possible mistakes from the coaches. – David is like that, he often has to see something to see mistakes – says Ma³ysz.
The former champion tells us that in Saturday’s jump in the competition Kubacki noticed the mistakes immediately (Dawd did not share his conclusions, this time he did not stop at the Eurosport stand). – But after the trial run did he on Friday said he was going in the right direction. So I ask how you can see it. Because I have no idea – Małysz is nervous.
Kubacki was 25 in the trial series. Perhaps in that jump he actually felt something flinch. But it’s hard to build optimism just on that.
“And there is a chapel”
I think he has a better chance of scoring with Stoch. He had a terrible result in Friday’s qualifying session. He was only in their 60’s and he had a compulsory day off on Saturday. What is worse, Żyła presented a very disturbing technique – he came out of a strange inrun position on the threshold so crookedly that in flight he saved himself from falling more than fighting for distance.
– Piotrek is already sitting in the wrong position and there is a chapel. And he made the exit more from one leg – says Małysz.
Before the last competition before Christmas, all our jumps are only on the legs of Kamil Stoch. On Sunday, it is unlikely to change. Unfortunately. Really “massacre” is a good summary of what we are watching.
Source: Sport
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