INNSBRUCK (Dagbladet): Norway found themselves at both ends of the scale after the ski jumping competition in Innsbruck in the afternoon.
For Andreas Star was the day in the mighty Bergiselbakken an upturn. He came in third place in the third race in the Hoppuka. Only Ryoyu Kobayashi and Stefan Kraft jumped better than him.
For Halvor Is Granerud was a terrible experience. He was disqualified before he was putting off. Also in qualifying the day before was a Norwegian dished: Debutant Robin Pedersen had not approved the suit in the control of the plain.
MISSET IN DRESSKONTROLLEN: Both Halvor Is Granerud (rear) and Robin Pedersen was disqualified in the Bergiselbakken. Granerud before the race today, Pedersen after the qualifying yesterday. Photo: Geir Olsen / NTB scanpix Show more
Two disk in the Hoppuka: It is almost as you need to rub in your eyes
– I’m surprised that we get two disk in two days. We are working around the clock for the athletes to have optimal equipment within the current regulations. We have not succeeded when one of our jumpers don’t even get to start, ” says sportssjef Clas Brede Bråthen.
– you Trying to cheat?
This is hopeless to explain to people who have decided that this is cheating. Everyone knows that we try as best we can to make it right within the rules. What those who do not have the same insight believes, we will just have to live with. Simple and easy.
Bråthen is clearly annoyed when the claims of the Norwegian cheating brought on the pitch. Also in the first competition in Wisla was Robert Johansson disqualified in the team competition.
– There is no one who has it worse than Halvor in the day, ” says Bråthen.
When an athlete is disqualified, it’s that the suit is larger than the dimensions allow. A larger dress provides more bæreflate and better flyegenskaper. In short: Here is the meter to get on the millimeters.
Low in the crotch
– the Suit was too low in the crotch, tells Granerud about what happened at the top. Often, it’s about the inexperience, and that was what happened in the case of the Pedersen yesterday.
the Suit was too wide over the hip, and it may be due to the position you are in. Or in the worst that dresskontrolløren will make an example towards the novice jumpers in verdenscupsirkuset.
HAPPY FACES: Alexander Stöckl congratulations Andreas Star with third place in conjunction with the ski jumping competition in Bergiselbakken in Innsbruck. To the right: Officer Steinar Bjerkmann. Photo: Geir Olsen / NTB scanpix Show more
We do as well as we can, ” says Bråthen.
– But what happens at the top, we get not done anything with. Our people can sew the suits until they are blue in the face. But how the athlete chooses to carry out the control, is up to him.
very clearly
Bråthen points out that it is not only Norwegian athletes who are disqualified. On the other hand becomes clear when stuff like that happens. Granerud was the only one who was disqualified in the day. In the qualification were the other two athletes disqualified in addition to Pedersen. The two was the american Casey Larson and the Russian Maksim Sergeev.
” We have had two-three seasons where we approximately have not had the disk. Then there will be a small period of time with two disk, says Bråthen.
all in All, it was a variable day in front of a large and feststemt audience in Bergiselbakken. The star jumped one place up and is in third place in the Hoppuka overall. Up to the German Markus Eisenbichler is 4.2 points. Up to Kobayashi in the first place, it is 49,7 points. If it does not go wrong in Bischofshofen on Sunday, the winner consequently won the match Hoppuka.
Skrekkscener in Hoppuka
– It was good to fly again, ” says the Star to NRK after his third place finish. He began the season in the worst possible way with the 50. place in Finland. So bad was it that he was taken out of the world cup and decided to train at home in Norway.
This has done wonders.
– It as well really is plunged into darkness out before christmas, but I have done a good job for yourself and in addition had extremely good coaches around me, ” says the Star to the NTB.
I have been for far were and the errors stacked, and then I’m one of the worst in the verdenscupsirkuset. At the same time, I am one of the best when I manage to sit the way I do now, ” he says.
– Nivåhevingen to Star in Hoppuka, there are many who can learn a lot from. He is extremely focused on what he should do in the ground and can not control other things, ” says Bråthen.
Robert Johansson was the second best Norwegian on the 11. space. For Daniel-André Tande, it was a new and terrible day in the ground. For the third time in Hoppuka he managed not to qualify for the finaleomgangen.
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