Friend is flying in the victory over – THE WORLD

Severin Freund overlooks the run track down his fear Schanze. It is the second passage of the New Year’s jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Other athletes have feared opponent, friend has a fear Schanze. Precisely it here. She sees in the midst of the gray-green mountain landscape did not look scary. Out of the speakers blaring the percussion music of Safri duo, friend goes on, the music stops, 25,000 spectators tremble with the German hopefuls. When he lands, he grimaces

Shortly after, but he dares to cheer up. Third place from behind the Norwegians Kenneth Gangnes and the top favorites Peter Prevc Slovenia. And on his unloved Schanze, who had previously introduced him in all these years more frustration than joy. Now he succeeded there though not perfect, but a good jump into the new year. So Severin Freund has the touring curse the Germans finally defeated after his opening victory in Oberstdorf. After all, the fight for the overall victory in the past 13 years had always been terminated at this point. Now for a friend in the second half of touring Everything to play: Although he lost the lead to Prevc, but the gap keeps up with 8.6 points in boundaries. “It’s almost frightening how far they can fly away both the competition,” said Michael Neumayer (29th place) with astonishment.

Richard Freitag jumped on place six. Andreas Wank landed on rank eleven, Andreas Wellinger to 14. “A great result of the whole team,” said head coach Werner Schuster. And friend exulted: “By far my best race in Garmisch.”

25,500 ski fans were on pilgrimage to this New Year’s Day to the Olympic ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen – record crowd in the era after Sven Hannawald. “For the ski jumping it’s damn important that with Severin again a German front mitmischt” Austria was currently feeble ski jumping star Gregor Schlierenzauer and looked into the sold-out stadium. By Boxing echoed since late morning songs of Helene Fischer, the etching or Jan Delay. But it was also contemplative: In “Hey Jew” by the Beatles, the fans took over the chorus and ushered in an exciting jump. An athlete they celebrated especially: Japanese veteran Noriaki Kasai. Spine-tingling atmosphere – as the 43-year-old landed after jumping, the audience out of respect of the grandstand seats rose. Kasai had already won here in 1993 and 2001, this was his 25th New Year’s event.

it went on its unloved hill for friend about the distance to the favorites for overall victory are not too big to let. Finally, his Garmisch-balance reads little gratifying friend best result was seventh place four years ago, two years ago he missed even the second passage. About mediocrity he came on the Olympic hill addition Never. “The transition from startup to takeoff is in Garmisch much faster and sharper than on many other hills. You have to make the jump exactly so,” said national coach Schuster, the snags. “You have to very quickly take an optimal flight position. This is a real tricky story.”

made Especially the conversion from Oberstdorf to Garmisch friend and some other always creating. In summer, the German team coached this hill exchange therefore particularly intense. “It was thus simply a piece of clear, what I have to do,” said friend afterwards. But probably not the only reason why this time was different. While he was frustrated and unsure of Oberstdorf in the past two years traveled to Garmisch, he joined his fear Schanze on this January 1st against self-confident and optimistic. “I have the energy well taken from Oberstdorf,” he grinned firmly

And it was from the beginning:. Second place in the first practice on Thursday, then even number one. The qualification after leaving whiz friend. As Second the overall World Cup, he was already pre-qualified, it would in a sense have had a training jump. But friend did well to and abandoned, because he did not want to make the good feeling of the first two flights are broken. “It’s not like that I have become better in recent years in Garmisch with every jump,” he said. This decision, however, he entered another risk: In the knockout duels the first qualification jumps against the last – friend dropped out, was therefore the last one and now had to ran against his supposedly worst adversaries for overall victory: the Slovenes Prevc.

The then showed in the trial round with 140 meters his extra class and put between himself and the rest of a whole ski jumping world. But it is not counted. When it came down to it, had to present friend. He succeeded: With 133.5 meters he sat down at the head of the field – and Prevc under pressure. The Slovene did not make it quite to get to his fable jumping out of the trial round, made as friend small error in the air – and landed just like the German by 133.5 meters. Friend shook his head and laughed – the two rivals had driven their duel at the top. Prevc received due to poorer wind conditions but still pluses, so he went into the final as the leader.

There only inspired the Norwegians Kenneth Gangnes with strong 134 meters and attracted friend passing (132.5 m). Prevc built with a jump of 136 meters his lead and was celebrated on the shoulders of his teammate Robert Kranjec from the audience. After finishing third in Oberstdorf that was exactly the revenge that he had hoped for.

Everything is now running out onto the great duel between Prevc and friend. “The task now is to put pressure on Peter with good jumps”, the German said, referring to the last two stops of the Four Hills Tournament. A breather there is not, the tour entourage pulls directly to Innsbruck. There already Saturday afternoon (14 clock, ZDF and Euro Sport) for the qualification at the Bergisel. The German team has this hill overlooking the cemetery in good memories: Last year, Richard jumped Friday there surprising victory. Friend flew at the third tour station least twice in fourth. And then he was not nearly as good shape as these days.

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