- Just jumped from hell to heaven. But this is my favorite hill. I have a lot of good memories here. And therefore easily visualize myself here as the best jump – Anders Jacobsen said after winning the New Year skilled in Ga-Pa. He was the best jumper of the day, in the first training flew 145 feet, about 1.5 meters further than the record jump Simon Ammann. These two long jumps, the first and third, gave the raspberry suit, his best, who put down only to the most important competitions. But to jump in Ga-Pa made an exception. In Jacobsen enters a new spirit when coming here. Only once was there outside the top ten – in 2008. Sometimes it came at a very bad jumps, and on the hill in Partenkirchen everything worked out differently.
Anders plumber
Only once happened that all tournament contests took the lowest place here. In 2007,., That is, when he won the whole tournament. As one of the revelations that winter, in his debut season. Competing with another young revelation, Gregor Schlierenzauer, while their Simon Ammann and Adam did not put up a bunch in the corners in the world championships in Sapporo, and Adam is also in the race for the crystal globe. But it was still a tournament of their time. Schlierenzauer just when it did not win in Ga-Pa (and he’s done it four times), but he went away as the leader of TCS. Missed a chance at home in Innsbruck, where he won Jacobsen and przypilnował advantage in Bischofshofen. He, the boy, who had all the time to hesitate: to be a plumber or jumper, was only the second rookie winner in the history of the tournament.
Norwegian helicopter
Then Schlierenzauer was named Messi jumps, and Jacobsen it was different. Former health problems, with the form, even suspension for an indefinite time career. But the first victory after returning to the hills came in Oberstdorf and was in Ga-Pa tournament two years ago. Then swirled in the minds of opponents, starting in shoes with special elongated tongues, which was designed by coach Alexander Stoeckl with his father. It is thanks to these boots Jacobsen was as if she wrote a Norwegian newspaper, fly like a helicopter. But there was someone who this flight interrupted course Schlierenzauer. He then won the tournament for the second time in a row. And the last.
Ordinary Schlierenzauer
Today, Jacobsen is also in some sense back. He started the season with problems, not always had a place in the composition of the Norwegians for competitions, and the current tournament team jumped last. 14th place in Oberstdorf is his best of the season. To lead Stefan Kraft lost 37.2 points. But even more important to fight for the return goes Schlierenzauer. Although he had already won the competition of the current winter, but can not return to its former regularity. Of the said victory in the Four Hills Tournament in 2013 he Cup record, won just eight contests (previously 45). Lillehammer victory this season came out almost exactly a year after the previous, also in Lillehammer. Schlierenzauer never in his career was not so ordinary, never had such a long break in winning. Got to the point that the first time was not mentioned among the favorites before the tournament.
The new model Gregor
I was disappointed in Oberstdorf, occupying only 17th place. Immediately after the second jump said that tournament has already lost, then it’s a little softened. 44.4 point loss to Kraft, however, very much. But where is chasing Schlierenzauer, if not in Ga-Pa. With seven races here four victory ended twice was fourth and the eighth time. Resigned from the Austrian qualifications, although in Oberstdorf them stopped. With a new coach Heinz Kuttin provides its jumping to another model. This is a revolutionary change: one of the last World Cup athletes who used the old bonds, gave up finally persuaded to curved, also changes the center of gravity in front of reflection, is to attack more aggressively at the exit of the threshold. Kuttin provides that in the beginning you have to time when such changes take a step or two backwards. But the results will come. With the new year?
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