The legendary Janne Ahonen has no doubts about Kamil Stoch. Specifically

disappoints this season. Successful performances (such as 3rd place in Klingenthal, 5th in Nizhny Tagil, 6th in Engelberg or 8th in Ruce) are mixed with fatal ones. He did not enter the second series of competitions four times, including during both competitions (he was 41st in Oberstdorf and 47th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen). In addition, he missed the qualification for the competition in Innsbruck (which was later moved to Bischofshofen anyway). Will Stoch’s crisis end?

Ahonen calms Polish fans

– I am surprised how much difficulties Kamil Stoch is struggling with this season. During the tournament his jumps did not look good, there were technical mistakes. Don’t worry about Kamil. Rest will certainly do him good, then he will train and it should be much better on his hill in Zakopane. He is a very experienced, titled jumper and knows what to do. He still has a chance to be strong at the Olympics. Until this competition, there was still a lot of time for calm training and preparation of the appropriate form – he assured.

Fin knows what he’s talking about. After all, he is one of the greatest ski jumpers in history. During the career of, among others He won the 4-Hills-Tournament five times and has two Olympic silver medals, seven ski flying World Championships and 10 world championships medals. In the World Cup, he twice enjoyed the victory in the general classification. In total, he won 36 competitions in the World Cup and finished in the top three competitions 108 times.

World Cup schedule and general classification

After the weekend in Zakopane the jumpers will move to Germany, where they will first jump in Titisee-Neustadt (January 22 and 23) and then in Willingen (January 28-30). Later in the World Cup, there will be a hiatus due to the Olympics.

But let’s go back to Stoch, who is still the highest among Poles in the overall World Cup ranking: he is 15th out of 216 points. Piotr ¯y³a is only 25th (138 points), and Dawid Kubacki is 36th out of 37 points. The leader is Ryoyu Kobayashi (841 points), who has an advantage of 56 points over Karl Geiger. In further positions, but with a greater loss, are Halvor Egner Granerud (613 points), Marius Lindvik (543 points), Markus Eisenbichler (471 points) and Anze Lanisek (401 points).