Half-time of the tour: The ÖSV eagles are looking for relaxation – winter sports – ski jumping
Halfway through the 70th Four Hills Tournament, the Austrian team has two ski jumpers in the top ten.
As ninth and tenth, Jan Hörl and Daniel Huber will have nothing to do with the top three in the final standings. Hörl is 65.9 points short of the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi, who remained victorious in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, while the Slovenian Lovro Kos, who is third behind the Norwegian Marius Lindvik, is 48.2 points. Now it’s off to Innsbruck.
ÖSV head coach Andreas Widhölzl hopes that his people will not show more on the Bergisel than on the two German ski jumps, but also in competition.
So far, only Huber has been able to do this in eighth place at the start and Hörl as fifth at New Year’s, and Daniel Tschofenig cut a good figure. The first 19-year-old from Carinthia is Tournee-16. Widhölzl: “It is important to find the necessary looseness in competition and to get the result out of your head a little.”
“That is the great art”
It is bitter that there are always setbacks in competition. “They want to show that they are good and prove it to themselves and to others too,” said the coach. “But that’s the great art. It’s about focusing on what needs to be done. The rest comes on its own. Sometimes they fail because they want to do it perfectly in competition. They showed in training that they are capable of acting and are good at it. “
As in Oberstdorf, the performance in Garmisch-Partenkirchen would also be analyzed, then it would be fun to go to the Bergisel. “Basically Innsbruck is good for us, we trained well there,” said Widhölzl, recalling two training phases in December. But there is no guarantee, and as a trainer you are in the end just a passenger anyway. “You deliver everything, but in the end they sit upstairs and are also responsible for what they show.”
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In any case, Hörl is heading up from Oberstdorf after rank 17, and is looking forward to the first two home jumping tournaments in a positive mood.
With a smile to Innsbruck
“I’m very motivated, the hill is good for me, we trained a lot there. You go there with a smile,” he said. The fifth place means a lot to the Wisla winner after he got “the first Watschn” in Oberstdorf. “Regenerate now, focus, look at my points and with full freshness to Innsbruck.”
Huber, Garmisch-16., Also smiles in thought of Bergisel. “I know every corner, I know the hill inside and out,” said the 29-year-old since (today) Sunday. “That is very good because in the end my concept is in place. That is very comforting. Perhaps it will help me to find the necessary looseness.” It is important to have fresh contact with the Bergisel. Because in winter the track behaves differently and the air is different than on summer courses.
Tschofenig was happy about one of his “best competitions so far in Garmisch. I hope that I can build on there in Innsbruck.” The season’s newcomer to the ÖSV receives some of his ex-colleagues from the Contintenal Cup as team-mates for Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, the national group IS now being implemented. Michael Hayböck will also make his World Cup comeback after undergoing a disc operation at the beginning of October.
Kobayashi can take the decisive step on the Bergisel to his second overall tour victory after 2018/19. If he wins in Tyrol and in Bischofshofen, he would be the first with two “Grand Slam” triumphs, including overall victory with successes on all hills. The Germans Sven Hannawald (2001/02) and Kamil Stoch (2017/18) also managed to do this once. This time the Pole missed the second run in Garmisch (47th) and in Oberstdorf (41st).
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