The top athletes will desert the latest Japanese seasonal events

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Nothing new in the Japanese men's team jump that is going to face the last two stages of the Grand Prix to be held in Hinzenbach (AUT) and Klingenthal (GER).

Tuesday 24 September 2013 3 minutes reading time

The technical staff of the Japanese will take flight at a time in Austria with five athletes. Will the game the thirtysomething Yuta Watase, finally returned to peep the top ten at the end of a season of plastic below the expectations, the former nordic combined Junshiro Kobayashi, vying for the prize full of disappointment ' summer, and the second lines Sho Suzuki, Kento Sakuyama and Kenshiro Ito. The leaders of the movement Noriaki Kasai, winner at 41 years he played in one of two races to Hakuba, Daiki Ito and Taku Takeuchi remain, however, at home where they will continue meticulous work on the equipment. In Austria, the post will remain the young Reruhi Shimizu, on the podium in the second race in Almaty and rose progressively to blows during the summer On the World Ranking List, the only real reason for interest in the last part of the Grand Prix, Japan will have to hope for a dual enterprise of one of Kobayashi, Suzuki and Sakuyama to regain the quota of six places with which it was presented at the start incipit seasonal hosted by Hinterzarten (GER). So unless miracles, will be five Japanese athletes who will take part in the matches of the World Cup in November and December, Four Hills Tournament excluded.

La gara di Grand Prix in programma ad Hinzenbach verrà trasmessa in diretta dal network satellitare EUROSPORT HD (canale 211 della piattaforma SKY) con collegamento alle ore 14:00 di domenica, 29 settembre.

Per quanto concerne, invece, la competizione di Klingenthal, il collegamento è fissato alle ore 15:25 di giovedì, 3 ottobre.

Massimiliano Ambesi

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