Race farce Klingenthal. Schlierenzauer and Bardal waive the jump!

'' The overture of the World Cup jumping male turns into a real farce'' because the wind has strongly influenced a race in which they have participated for choosing the winners of the last two World Cups.

Sunday 24 November 2013 5 minutes reading time

But let's go with order. The competition was supposed to start at 13.30, but the weather conditions have forced repeated postponements. The race is then started with nearly 2 hours late with strong frontal air. The wind, continually changing, however, has forced the jury to constant interruptions. At the time of the jump Andreas Kofler wind suddenly changed direction and the'' Austrian landed very short, then lost the'' balance and ended up against the billboards. The twenty nine year old has been taken out of the landing area on a stretcher and it is feared an injury to a rib. Shortly after he staged the farce above. It has become impossible to jump, but the jury did continue despite such big Wolfgang Loitzl, Tom Hilde, Severin Freund and Kamil Stoch were in obvious distress. The series was then stopped with just two athletes in starting pole. After a few minutes of waiting Anders Bardal and Gregor Schlierenzauer waived their jump. The jury then considered valid the result of the first set, breaking the race soon after. There are no statements of those involved. The only voices coming from Austria'' Alexander Pointner concern that stated at the microphones of Ard "The season is very long and we do not want to take any risks." Norway on NRK, the'' commentator technical Espen Bredesen said the story by saying "it is one of the lowest points ever reached by the ski jump." The results leave so long as you are. For statistical evidence today will be remembered for the first career victory in the Polish Krzysztof Biegun that preceded the German Andreas Wellinger and Slovenian Jurij Tepes. Obviously the technical value of these results is virtually nil given the lottery created by the wind today. It is true that the jump is an outdoor sports and is part of the game have a more or less favorable wind, but today the quest'' jumpers found themselves having to race in conditions too extreme to be called regular. No points for the'' Italian with Roberto Dellasega thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and David Sebastian Colloredo Bresadola forty. KLINGENTHAL - LARGE HILL1. Biegun Krzysztof (POL) 135.82. Wellinger Andreas (GER) 132.83. TEPES Jurij (SLO) 131.44. Taku Takeuchi (JPN) 130.75. Piotr Zyla (POL) 130.66. KOT Maciej (POL) 127.67. Simon Ammann (SUI) 125.88. KRAUS Marinus (GER) 125.69. Rib Jan (POL) 125,210. Deschwanden Gregor (SUI) 120.1 Click here for full results. Next week will compete in Finland, Kuusamo. Will be two races on Friday 29 and Saturday 30, with qualifying on Thursday, 28. We hope to see much more regular competitions.

Francesco Paone

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