Four Hills Tournament: opening event canceled – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          On the video wall is clearly visible: You can not jump
     

 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

It was a test of patience, the extraordinary strained the nerves of all involved long. At the first competition of the 63rd Four Hills Tournament had fifty athletes and 24,500 spectators in the arena in Oberstdorf endure for hours, until a decision was made: The competition was broken off

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. Author: Marc Henry, born in 1974, sports editor of Follow:

The weather conditions were marginal, to bring the event that will start on Sunday at 16.30 clock, properly across the stage. After persistent snowfall and wind freshens with gusts of up to seven meters per second in the Allgäu mountains the safety of the jumpers and equal opportunities was “not guaranteed”, as Walter Hofer, the race director of the International Ski Federation (FIS), the decision-founded.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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First, he had canceled the trial round and later the beginning of every quarter hour postponed until well into the evening. But that was nothing to save. Shortly after 19 clock after only eleven Springer had crossed the Bakken, carried the cancellation. This Monday the authorities in Oberstdorf want at 17.30 clock make a fresh start; However, the meteorologist predicting further wind and snow to the region. The hitherto only rejection in the history of the Four Hills Tournament, there were 4 January 2008 in Innsbruck.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Hofer spoke of a “very difficult” Background: “We had the nerve to keep and have directed us only for the needs of the athletes.” Serious falls were made, with particular Marinus Kraus had to us e from Oberaudorf in his attempt much body control, in order not to lose balance.

                         
         
         
         
             
                                                                                              

After several attempts and a long wait was fixed: crash in Oberstdorf “AML” Photogallery

                         
         
         
                                                             

Shortly after take-off on takeoff only sixty-pound lightweight in-air turbulence was unpleasantly surprised and only with an artistic contribution, he was able to prevent worse. “It was pure horror,” he described later. Werner Schuster said he was glad that the 23-year-old “has landed on his feet.”

                         
         
         
                                                             

Kraus had “not want to show too passive” is on his first tour-jump while he had undermined technical errors that he did not have under the given situations can correct. ̶ 0;It was very close,” Schuster, “relieved” commented said that the jury Fis this extraordinary resolution was passed: “. It was sporting the right thing”

                                                                                                                 
 
  

 
 
 
                       

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It was only a test of patience, because the cancellation: The Four Hills Tournament opener is due to the turbulent weather broken in Oberstdorf. Marinus Kraus narrowly escapes a bad fall. An alternative date is already fixed.

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