On Sunday he unexpectedly won a bronze medal on a normal hill. Only Ryoyu Kobayashi and Manuel Fettner turned out to be better. But Sunday’s competition is a thing of the past. On Monday, the white-and-reds fought in the mixed teams competition. After the first series, Nicole Konderla, Kinga Rajda, Kamil Stoch and Jan Kubacki took fifth place. The latter will jump with a folded – or unbuttoned – elastic band on the left leg of the suit.
It was here after the landing that Kubacki realized that what was wrong with his outfit, but he was lucky, because after his jump he did not undergo a hardware check. It did not mean, however, that there would be no such control. Each team may officially protest. The condition for its submission is the payment of one hundred Swiss francs (i.e. about PLN 440).
If the jury accepted the protest, Kubacki could be disqualified and the result of his jump would not be included in the overall score of the Poles. Such a protest, however, will not take place – the rivals had up to 15 minutes after the competition, but no one decided to do so.
The protest of Kubacki’s wide leg did not bother anyone, probably also because the Poles did not compete in the team mixed competition for the highest positions. Good jumps of Stoch and Kubacki did not improve the team’s results too much after poor attempts by Rally and Konderla. Ultimately, the Poles took the sixth place.
Slovenia with gold!
The gold was won by the national team of Slovenia, which is more than 110 points ahead of the jumpers from Russia. The Canadians took a sensational third place, followed by Japan and Austria.
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An incredible feat of Dawid Kubacki. No one has succeeded in this in 34 years
But let’s go back to the Sunday competition for a moment. Kubacki will make a historic achievement at the Beijing Olympics. For the first time in 34 years, a player with such a low ranking in the World Cup managed to win an Olympic medal.
The Pole’s medal is all the more valuable because few people put on it. This season, it takes only 37th place in the World Cup. In fourteen starts he scored just 63 points. For the first time in 34 years, such a low-ranked athlete in P managed to win an Olympic medal. In 1988, Matjaz Debelak performed a similar feat.
Source: Sport
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