Paweł Wą sec, this time more important than the entire Polish team

On Friday in Lahti. Last year’s world champion stood on the podium for the first time this winter.

there is no successful season. Until Friday, he was in seventh place at the most – in the competition in Bischofshofen. It was only the second time he jumped into the top 10 of the competition after 18 starts. He just failed at the Olympics. W was 21st on the normal hill and 18th on the large hill and sixth with his teammates.

The old masters still can

Third place They lived in a surprise. And confirmation of his sports class. He’s an old master who just can’t be deleted. This is his sixth consecutive winter with at least one podium in the World Cup.

Earlier, they jumped their podiums this season (third place in December in the World Cup in Klingenthal) and (third place on the normal hill at the Beijing Olympics). Kubacki won the Olympic medal, despite the fact that this winter in the World Cup he was not in the top 10 of any competition! His 13th place on Friday with Lahti was to match the best result – 13th place in the season opening in Nizhny Tagil.

32-year-old Kubacki, 35-year-old ¯y³a and 35-year-old Stoch, who managed to come back to the front despite a sprained ankle, generally have a bad season, but if we were to complain about their results, what about the rest of the team?

We have known for a long time that there are no young jumpers in the country ready to achieve results that are still enjoyed by Stoch, Kubacki and Żyła. That is why it is very important for him to confirm his possibilities here and now. Almost 23-year-old player has just made his debut at the Olympics. Not bad, because he was 21st in the competition on the large hill and he jumped solidly in the team. But first he lost to the oldest in the team, Stefan Hula (born in 1986), the competition for the right to start on the normal hill.

Narrow, we praise a little exaggerated

The mustache jumps in the checkered pattern, and we want and need it to stabilize at a good level. He can be in one round of the 12th – like Friday in Lahti in training – and in the next 59th, like in the first round of the competition.

Honestly speaking, it is hard to expect that Poland consisting of Piotr Żyła, Pawe³ Wąsek, Dawid Kubacki and Kamil Stoch will win a place on the podium on Saturday (the team competition will start at 4.30 pm). And the most important thing is how Mustache will jump.

It is very important that the leader of our younger generation of jumpers has a successful end of the season. For now, we are exaggerated with his starts, because we really need a new impulse. Wąsek ended up being promoted to the second round only in 3 of 14 starts in the ongoing World Cup. Wąsek collected only 22 points this winter. The mustache is praised for its technique, for the fact that it resembles a Stoch in its style. But it’s high time Wąsek deserved praise for his results. There are 11 more World Cup competitions left, there is also the Ski Flying World Cup. This time cannot be wasted.