– In my performance, these are jumps, not flights – he said in front of the TVP Sport camera. He stood before her as the 21st competitor of the individual World Cup competition in flights after Friday series. Stoch jumped 206.5 m and 196 m. The best ones flew 30-40 meters further. Stoch is 91.5 points behind the leader, Marius Lindvik.
It was clear after the first round
It must be said clearly: after the first of the four series of the championship, all Poles lost their chances of being in the forefront. After the halfway point, the 12th place is 63.5 points behind Lindvik. And the best Pole loses 43.6 points to the podium. However, there is no point in looking towards the podium.
Free flies in solid, orderly and let’s just appreciate it. 219 and 197 m in very difficult conditions (as much as 30.3 points were added to the Pole for the wind in the back), this is a surprisingly good performance for only the 52nd jumper of this season.
In the World Cup, Free scored 24 points throughout the winter. His best result was 23rd place. Recently, he did not join the Polish team for the Olympic Games and spent the last weeks with training and competing in the Continental Cup. He was second in Brotterode and Planica, now we can see that something in his jumps twitched.
Free can fight for the top 10
Free, fighting for a place in the top 10 at the World Cup (he loses 8.8 points) is probably the only nice prospect for Polish fans to finish the competition on Saturday. Only the 19th is losing too much – almost 30 points. he is in the 29th place and will have to try not to take the last place among the competitors who will jump four times.
Stoch has to fight with himself
And Kamil Stoch? – Jumps – because in my performance these are not flights, but jumps – they do not go as I would like. There are a number of mistakes that I make and which I cannot correct – he said in an interview with TVP Sport. – It all starts in the drive-in position. I can’t figure it out at all here. In the absence of good dynamics and speed, especially over the tub, I get tired very much in the second phase – he analyzed.
Nothing to add, I guess. Free is the only Polish plus of this championship, Stoch is too slow in flight, and the mistakes causing the domino effect are also made by Żyła, W ± sec and the reserve. After very poor training (35th and 37th place), he did not even get into the Polish squad for the individual World Cup competition.
Source: Sport
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