Kamil Stoch lowered his voice and began to cry. “I can’t afford it”

– Kamil, crap, it was a really beautiful fight. I bow my head and congratulations. First jump? World Championship! – began a conversation with the Eurosport reporter Kacper Merk. – Thank you very much. It is a pity that jumping is such a discipline that consists of two jumps – Stoch smiled.

Kamil Stoch wept after the Saturday competition

And after a while it got much more serious. – Apparently I do not deserve this medal – added Stoch. – It is clearly neither my season nor my time. I find it hard to accept it, but it is so. I can only say that I did what I could. That I really did my best. I couldn’t afford anything more today, he explained.

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Merk then immediately interjected: – I’m sorry, but I cannot agree that this is not your season. Man, Michael [Koro¶ciel] in the studio he analyzed that it was not known if you would come here at all. A month has passed, a month to be exact, and you are sixth on the normal hill and fourth on the big hill! I know that your heart would like there to always be a medal, but these are amazing achievements of Kamil.

Stoch: It’s hard for me to accept it

– Thank you very much, but it is difficult for me to accept it. I know this is a great place and many players would like to be there, but I … – here Stoch lowered his voice and started to cry. – I really sacrificed a lot lately … Yes, I wanted to get a bigger prize here … But it must be so. I take it as it is, shrugged the three-time Olympic champion.

– I have to sort it out for a moment, take a breath, rest and in two days get back together – added Stoch, who will start at the Olympics in the team competition on Monday. – It can really end beautifully – Merk consoled him further. – Thanks for everything. For all your support and faith in me. Because when I don’t believe it myself, there are people all the time who keep holding me with what I do. Also thanks, repeated Stoch.

. He struck for a moment, because just a meter later Austrian Manuel Fettner and Slovene Timi Zajc (138.5 m) jumped, and the Norwegian Marius Lindivk (140.5 m) and the gold medalist from the normal hill Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi (142 m) flew even further. ).

After the first series, the Pole was fourth – he was only 0.4 points behind the medal. The second jump, however, was shorter (133.5 m) and remained in the fourth position. Behind Lindvik, who won the gold medal, Kobayashi and Karl Geiger, who also jumped far in the first round, 138 meters, but he was only sixth. In the second, he showed the same jump, which finally gave him the third place – he overtook Stoch by 4.1 points.