What was going on? Severin Freund and the Germans disappoint in Oberstdorf
There were a few fans in front of the door the spa Oberstdorf persevered until late in the evening to catch a photo and a signature. Outside it had snowed all day without ceasing, and in the drafty hallway was waiting in a wet winter sportswear not a very great pleasure. Many autograph collector therefore withdrew prematurely back, especially since it was not the hoped-darlings who spoke indoors in the ballroom before the television cameras of the reasons for their success in the opening event of the Four Hills Tournament.
. Author: Marc Henry, born in 1974, sports editor of
On Monday, the Austrian Stefan Kraft had prevailed ahead of his compatriot Michael Hayboeck, was third Slovene Peter Prevc. The previously highly traded Germans who had competed with the firm intention to confirm their previously good World Cup performance, even with this prestigious series, on the other hand were not cope with the conditions. Severin Freund, its flagship athlete, was Thirteenth, Fifteenth Richard Freitag even only, while the rest continue landed back in the standings. It was from a German perspective, a gloomy scene.
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on the podium the first three places on their happiness, head coach Werner Schuster had the room entered and searched the very back of a seat on the sidelines. He would not have to say much, because his disappointment was to see him at first sight. The smile that had flitted him in the preparation and the forecasts about the chances of his people in the Tournament 2014/2015 repeatedly over his face had dissipated. But it had not shock the 45-year-old language.
He made no secret of how much carrying him responsible for the performances of ski jumping team of the German Ski Association, had made this debacle. He mentioned in particular the idea of his top people friend and Friday “catastrophic,” they were fallen far short of its potential. For the duo, the results were “a slap in the face”. Never before in his tenure began six years ago he had experienced with such favorable auspices such a bad idea. There have been many “low confidence in their own abilities”, so both went on takeoff crucial error in the approach.
“Severin myself do not know what happened to him since. He jumped down the hill already 10,000 times. With the guidance, Spring so bad you can ‘it would probably be better bound than he did today, “Schuster said. And he added: “Richard was so tense that he is lifted too early from head to toe. He did not come to the height. The inner balance is the guys just did not succeed. “Schuster spoke of a” huge expectations “that have built up. “They wanted the best possible, but it is completely backfired.”
On the qu estion of whether it constitutes a mental problem that German actors in appearances before a large audience at home often much owe, but in the distance – for example, recently in Kuusamo in Finland, Russia’s Nizhny Tagil or in Engelberg (Switzerland) – shone, he said: “This assessment, I can not disagree. Only we must someday solve, so we get no trauma. “
“A slap in the face”: Werner Schuster Photogallery
His fighting spirit seems regardless of frustration not yet gone: “I want to turn the thing yet. The tour we will not win, but I do not believe that we now have to Bischofshofen no sense of achievement. Our quality is higher than in the past, and we will get in the next three competitions every effort to prove that. “
Now that the mood on the ground, said Schuster, “you can not lose, but win only”. Already on New Year’s Day in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (jumping from 14.00 clock / live on ARD in euro sport and Four Hills Tournament ticker at FAZ.NET) can this daring thesis examine the first time under emergency conditions.
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