Before the Nordic World Ski Championship, the German ski jumpers are fully involved in the title fights of Trondheim again. After the strong result on the normal hill, dubious suit allegations against the DSV eagles make the round. In the German camp, you react extremely calmly – and rather refer to the intensive preparation.
Material-Zoff somehow has a tradition in ski jumping, you only remember Simon Amman’s “crooked” attachment to the 2010 Olympics. And so insider does not really surprise that after the unexpectedly strong performance of the Germans when jumping from the normal hill there are accusations of cheat.
With a “monstrous” suit, Karl Geiger jumped to 4th place, the Polish portal “Sport.Pl” was pondered. The competition had become a “complete scandal”.
Even Polen’s ski jumping legend Adam Malysz participated. “Something is wrong here. That is obvious. It is very strange,” said the President of the Polish Ski Association in conversation with the sports newspaper “Przeglad Sportowy” and suspected a loophole in the suit regulation. Doubts from the highest position.
The core of the excitement: On TV images it could be seen that a bump formed in the crotch on Geiger’s suit before the start. This was also recognized after his landing.
Horngacher protégés only trained on normal hill
The German Ski Association (DSV) does not play the media game, however, refers to the request of sport.de On the close-meshed control system of the Ski World Association FIS.
All suits have been checked by the rule huts, provided with a chip after successful patterns and checked again in every competition, the DSV said.
In a similar way, Karl Geiger had previously said: “I had an inspection and I passed it,” he said.
The facts – you speak for violinists and the DSV. Since this winter, the ski jumper can only wear ten suits over the entire season. The suits of the jumper are marked in seven places with chips that have their own ID number. In this way, it should be excluded that suits are replaced in the course of the season.
The DSV refers to the intensive preparation that the team of national coach Stefan Horngacher had completed in front of the World Cup in Trondheim. You could not ignore “the previous course of the season” and therefore only train on a normal hill.
Background: Small ski jumps are no longer jumped in the World Cup, but only at World Championships and Olympic Games. In a way, the cards on the small Bakken are newly mixed, previous balance of power is only partially sustainable.
Strength of “Kleinschanzen-Karl” no surprise
The strong result of the Germans did not come as a surprise, it says from the DSV side. “We have strong athletes. Karl Geiger, for example, does not have the nickname Kleinschanze-Karl for nothing,” commented association spokesman Ralph Eder the silver medal from Andreas Wellinger and Geiger’s fourth place.
Wellinger had already won silver from the normal hill at the 2023 World Cup, violinist jumped into bronze in Slovenia.
It is hoped to have overcome the crisis of the past few months through the trial focus on normal hill and to get into a World Cup flow with the tailwind of the first competitions, Eder.
Before the title fights in Norway, the German ski jumper of the competition in the World Cup had jumped significantly afterwards. On much larger ski jumps – and with controlled suits. At that time there were no suit allegations-who is surprised.