The noise of the ski jumping fans was never as loud as at the moment, flew as Severin Freund in the trial round on the stem. The amount, the pace, the position: Hardly any other Springer came up to then so promising over the hill, everyone saw that immediately in the round. Friend landed at 128 meters, the best in the whole wide passage. No second later there was silence.
Germany’s currently best ski jumpers had lost control of his left ski at bounce and came to the case. Today’s match was quiet, barely a spectator spoke. Even the stadium announcer did not know what to say. “Happy, Severin. We want to see you in the finals,” he said, had set up as a boyfriend. Then it was again loud in the stadium.
friend actually came into the finals. It reached number three in the first round and ended the competition on the second place – behind the winner Peter Prevc from Slovenia, who extended his lead in the Tour standings. 19.7 points separate the two top favorites before the last jump on Wednesday in Bischofshofen (17 clock, live ticker SPIEGEL ONLINE; TV: ARD), which are about eleven meters. Hardly possible for a friend, but not excluded.
It is once again on strong nerves arrive at Epiphany. The duel between friend and Prevc is the first jumping on a psychological. Before Innsbruck, the third of four tour stops, friend actually had the better mental condition shown: opening victory in Oberstdorf, where his opponent wobbled. Then with third place, the first podium result for him in unloved Garmisch-Partenkirchen. And now the Bergisel ski in Innsbruck, which is the Germans well actually. But then came the fall.
“friend is!”
It is in the trial round actually about nothing. The Springer get latest findings on the hill and first about their daily condition. Acclimatization, get a good feeling, actually. Avoid negative experiences, do not rush. Friend was after his fall back fairly quick on his feet. Quite stable, as its relatively round transition from the outlet suggested. “It is what it,” he said to a supervisor. “I have a good feeling that the Severin can start in the competition,” said the announcer on the investment. A quarter of an hour before the competition there was the announcement: “Friend is!”
But how would he handle the fall? The answer: mixed. In the last phase of his first jump friend was noted a slight uncertainty. At the end he lacked eight feet and 5.7 points on Prevc, the high flyer of the ski scene. The second attempt sprang friend then confidently: 128 meters, this time stood clean. But it did not help, because Prevc jumped again four meters.
The overall World Cup leader was unbeatable that day. Twice he had worse conditions than friend twice he jumped better and further. In this Constitution, he is the tour victory really no longer take. Prevc now travels as favorite to Bischofshofen. The local Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze is the largest of the four plants, there the longest jumps are possible.
“You can not win the Tour in Innsbruck, but you can lose it,” the announcer had greeted the audience before the start of the trial round. Probably he was right.
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