Maren Lundby is one of the dambackhoppningens main practitioners ever. She won the OLYMPIC gold medal and the overall world cup last winter. But she has no world CHAMPIONSHIP gold medal.

At the last world CUP, she got a problem with a shoe and had to change when she led after the first jump. She finished four. At the OLYMPICS in Pyeongchang a year ago, she got again skoproblem. Bidningen had been broken in the one case, something that her serviceman discovered first just before provhoppningen. They could cook a shoe in the time, in yet another dramatic final day.

on that misfortune has left her, she says to PLEASE

” No, well I’m the devil’s daughter. He is probably always on my shoulder. But I hope that he is a little less prominent now, ” she says.

Women’s ski-jumping has had a rapid development in recent years. Ahead of the OLYMPIC games 2010, 15 female ski jumpers, the International olympic committee when the sport was the only one where women are not allowed to participate. Four years later, the ladies with in the OS.

“don’t Forget, it’s like jumping down from, let us say, about two metres above the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for women from a medical perspective,” said Gian Franco Kasper, still today the president of the international ski federation, to american radio in 2005.

Maren Lundby both the international and the Norwegian association for how they bet on the women’s ski jumping. But she is beskviken at how little the Norwegian media and sponsors attention to her and her colleagues.

In a column in the VG in the week, she wrote, ”it hurts every time that NRK moves us to network tv”. And criticising the Norwegian newspapers. ”The same media that create klickvinnare when someone rages against the lack of equality in the ski jump, but that, paradoxically, does not show the presence. For I never see reporters from Norway when I was travelling around on the world cup events in the rest of the world,” she writes.

on Tuesday, competed Maren Lundby in the world CUP’s team competition. And it became a medal – bronze – much thanks to the Norwegian newspaper describes as a ”monsterhopp” of Lundby. In the first round, she jumped 108 meters – new backrekord for ladies in Seefeld.

Germany won with the team. Hemmanationen Austria finished second.

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