Ski jumping ridiculous. Strange is an understatement. She lived the proof

The size of the hill for the flights in Oberstdorf is 235 meters. On Saturday we saw 70 jumps in the competition and before that 40 more in the trial series. The HS border has not broken in any of these 110 jumps. Kamil Stoch landed the furthest in the trial series – at the 232nd meter. In the competition, they achieved the same in the first round and Ziga Jelar.

Andrzej Stêka³a (26th place, 208 and 203 m) was right when he said in front of the Eurosport camera that the jury changed the in-run length unnecessarily. And even to put it bluntly that shortening the inrun as if many competitors exceeded 240 meters was pointless.

The jumps are unreadable? Does not matter. That’s what the FIS thinks

Probably everyone who watched this competition have an opinion like Stękała. None of the jumpers were in danger, there were no hurricane gusts of wind against the skis, there was no possibility that someone would jump over the hill and hurt himself. And yet the jury changed the height of the starting beam eight times during two series of competitions. Eight times!

The effect of the jury’s maneuvers was that in the second round he flew beautifully on 228.5 m, leader Stefan Kraft and runner-up Timi Zajc barely crossed the K-point of the hill (200 m), getting 207 m (Kraft won and Zajc took third place), and Żyły’s attack ended with a promotion from seventh to only fifth place.

All because after the vein jump, the beam moved from station 20 to station number 18. Unreadable? That’s okay. The International Ski Federation just thinks so. Over the years. After the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, the activists introduced conversion factors into the jumps on a permanent basis, and not as before on trial, thanks to which the jumpers are added points for unfavorable wind and are deducted for favorable and points for a short inrun and subtracted for an extended inrun. The starting beam maneuverability was intended to be used when conditions suddenly change rapidly. It was supposed to be a rescue from canceling the whole series and playing it from the beginning.

Unfortunately, the more years that pass from those right assumptions, the bigger the dance with beams we watch. Throughout Saturday’s competition, the beam traveled from stand number 18 through 15 to 17 and from 18 to 20 again through 18 to 16.

We miss normality. This comparison says it all

This is not normal. This is a distortion of the principles that guided the introduction of the moving beam provision. As proof, let’s compare Saturday’s competition in Oberstdorf with the competition that took place in the same place 10 years ago. Back then, other people were leading the show, then we were still getting used to the new regulations.

Almost exactly 10 years ago, on February 18, 2012, the starting bar was changed once – it was lowered one step before the top ten after the first round. And that’s it.

Then in Oberstdorf the wind was from 1.14 m / s to 0.13 m / s ahead. Now in Oberstdorf the wind was from 1.18 m / s to 0.30 m / s at the rear. These are very similar conditions. Absolutely not that the jury would go crazy with fear. Then in Oberstdorf we saw five jumps beyond HS, then we got the show. The jumps were different then. Much better.