3 out of 30. Fatal numbers for Horngacher. The biggest loser of the Olympics

On Wednesday and Thursday, a total of six training series took place at the Olympic large hill in Zhangjiakou. What do we know before the Friday qualification and the fight for medals in the individual (Saturday) and team competitions (Monday)?

Pawle Wsku, you have to!

will turn 23 in June. Beijing 2022 is the first Olympic Games in his career. In training on the normal hill, he will lose the competition. Bravo, Stefan! For a jumper of almost 36 years, participation in the fourth Olympics in his career is a beautiful thing. But with all – really enormous – sympathy for Hula, we have to wish Wsek to be better than him and be glad that he was the one to perform on a large hill. This is the interest of Polish ski jumping.

and they are 35-year-olds. is 32 years old. We wish them and Hula the best. We do not send any of them to sports pensions. But if we want – and we really want – to have strong jumps for many years to come, they must finally start to be strong in the young players.

A 1999 w product needs to get as much experience as possible in Beijing. Let him jump in the Friday qualification, be promoted to Saturday’s individual competition, and there he should at least enter the second series. And the best – let him win a medal in the team together with the old champions.

The team can

• First training series: third Poland
• Training series II: Poland fourth
• Training series 3: Poland sixth
• IV training series: Poland fourth
• Training series 5: Poland sixth
• VI training series: Poland fourth (but only three Austrians jumped)

The total results of the four best Poles in each series are certainly not amazing. We miss the Austrians, Norwegians and Soviets a lot. But the four of us can compete for a medal in the Monday team. Nothing unusual – anyone who did not sleep through the first days of the Olympics will say and knows that on the normal hill Kubacki won the bronze medal, Stoch was sixth, and in the second round we still had Hul alive. But the Polish team fighting for the medal was really not something that was obvious all winter.

The situation today is that Stoch, Kubacki ya i Wsek or Hula may win a medal, but may not reach it, however. During training, we have successful series and unsuccessful series. On Thursday, the second on Thursday, we lost to Russia. On the fourth, i.e. the first Thursday, we had the same note as the Russians. And it is not them that will have to be fought hard to make it to the podium. Let us also add that on Thursday there was no Japanese leader, the Olympic champion from the normal hill, on the hill.

But take it easy – serious jumping on the large object in Zhangjiakou is just beginning. And although the Poles have not been here yet, we have reason to believe that they will also count on this facility.

Stefanie, aren’t you sorry?

ya was third, Kubacki drunk, and Stoch sidmy – these are the best training results of our leaders. If we think “too little”, what will the Germans say? The competitors jumped on the large facility in Zhangjiakou a total of 30 times on Wednesday and Thursday (five jumpers each jumped six times). Effect? Only three places in the top 10. Again – out of 30 German jumps in training only three were in the top 10!

This is not about liberating Stefan Horngacher for complaints and protests against Poles. It’s about the truth. And the truth is that so far in the Olympic jumping world there is probably no bigger loser than the Austrian leading Germany.

The German team is the leader of the National Cup. is the world cup leader. This team came to Beijing as if it were for her. Meanwhile, after the competition on the normal hill, Horngacher’s players have 11th place by Constantin Schmid and ninth place with their friends in the mixed teams competition.

Even worse than the above-mentioned results is the uncertainty for this team before the competition on the large hill. Or maybe Horngacher would really waste too much energy tracking rivals and not enough energy to keep track of everything in his Mannschaftta (team).

Le, Daniel, le!

On the other hand, the energy with which he comes to these games is admirable. The Norwegian came in recently. Due to the positive result of the COVID test, he did not make it to the competitions on the normal hill. But in the long since the first jump, it shows great form.

– They said they did not know if he would survive – Karl Geiger, depressed, said on ZDF. This was the end of the previous season in Planica. Tande will lose control of his flight just after stepping off the threshold of one of the biggest and most dangerous hills in the world. He crashed into his bulldozer, breaks his collarbone, loses consciousness to be resuscitated, and was brought into the state of pharmacological chambers.

This was at the end of March, and already in September Tande jumps at the Summer Continental Cup in Oslo. They will return to the elite quickly – they have been competing since the beginning of this season, since November. Mao this – in December he will jump to the first podium after that terrible accident! But his second place with Klingenthal is the only really good result this winter so far (he will not even be in the top 10 in any other competition).

What’s going on now? Due to the positive results of the COVID tests, Tande would lose the P competitions in Titisee-Neustadt and Willingen as well as the Olympic competitions on the normal hill. And I think this forced break works wonders! During training on the large hill, Tande was second, second and drunk again on Wednesday. On Thursday he had the second and sixth result. And let go of the last series, because he already knows for sure that in the perfect moment, the form for great things will come.

Whether Tande will accomplish such things remains to be seen. But the fact that we all see him as a candidate for medals is simply a beautiful story. And you don’t have to be a Norwegian to wish Tandem good luck.