Martin Schmitt no longer sees the suit allegations from Poland against the German ski jumper at the World Cup in Trondheim than the commercially available material raid. In an interview with Sport.de, the ski jumping legend gives the reasons for the strong performance of the DSV eagle in the first competition-however, he only has one German on the slip for jumping from the Großchanze.
“It is always like this: If someone jumps well, the discussions about it run behind the scenes. Those who are on the pedestal usually do not complain, but others find points that criticize them,” commented Martin Schmitt sport.de The allegations from Poland that Karl Geiger started with an irregular suit when jumping from the normal hill.
The portal “Sport.pl.” wrote of a “monstrous suit” Geiger’s “monstrous suit” that the competition had become a “complete scandal”.
Schmitts also tiger rival Adam Malysz agreed in the choir of the indictment: “Something is wrong here. I think that’s obvious. It is very strange,” said the President of the Polish Ski Association of the newspaper “Przeglad Sportowy”.
The core of the excitement: On the TV pictures it was clearly recognizable that a bump formed in the crotch on Geiger’s suit before the start. This was also recognized after his landing. According to the rules, the fabric may not stand out from the body by more than four centimeters.
“It is already that you can see a wrinkle here and there, depending on how the recording is. I had the impression that the suits of the top teams are pretty similar and there are little differences,” said Schmitt: “You can also find settings and pictures in which the Polish suit looks very large – but it is not currently in focus.”
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For a while, allegations of material came from Norway, Schmitt recalled the season’s course so far. “From there you can hear less – understandable in the results,” the two -time world champion alluded to Marius Lindvik’s gold medal when jumping from the little ski jump. “Poland is of course on the back,” Schmitt also suspects sporting disappointment behind the allegations.
Geiger’s suit had been checked and checked, said Schmitt and pointed out that in the World Cup season “several jumper, also top jumpers were already disqualified: Stefan Kraft caught it, Timi Zajc, Domen Prevc, including well-known athletes. So it is checked.”
If it does not run on the ski jump, you look for explanations for the misery. “The German team also struggled during the tour. Then the view went out, then there is unrest in the team, you wonder if you missed something with the material,” said the two -time overall World Cup winner.
In January, however, he “localized the DSV eagles in January,” explained Schmitt. “In the past few weeks, the boys have worked very intensively that they simply come back through their quality, that you may even pay less attention to the aerodynamics, but more on the bleeding quality in order to find your strengths back.”
Andreas Wellinger had already recognized at the competitions in front of the World Cup “that he jumped much better technically,” said Schmitt, who analyzed the title fights in Norway for “Eurosport”. “With the last training phase, he got even more security and got a significantly higher quality into his jumps.”
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Wellinger won silver on the small Bakken, violinist was fourth. “You knew about the qualities. A clean printing behavior from the ski jumping table is the DNA of the German team, when Stefan Horngacher attaches great importance to getting a lot of effect in his leap and has a highly efficient jump. The break now has a good time to train on a small ski jump to increase the jumping intensity,” said Schmitt, explained the good.
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The challenge for the Germans is now “to be implemented on the large ski jump”. He was “behavior optimistic,” said Schmitt with a view to the second individual competition. Wellinger can also develop his system on the large Bakken.
“Apparently he has found something that he ‘easily’ again becomes after the jump, as he says that his system closes nicely, that is, a lot of effect is in his jump. If he has energy in his jump – he can handle it,” said Schmitt. “The whole thing should also work as stable as Wellinger has jumped.”
At Geiger, on the other hand, “the whole thing is more fragile”. The Bavarian showed good jumps on the small ski jump thanks to “an incredible ability to concentrate and conviction”. “But that was a feat. Creating that twice.”
From the German team, Schmitt therefore only turns Wellinger, also on the large hill to join Edelmetall. The first training results give the “Eurosport” expert right: Wellinger was in the three rounds with places 17, 22 and 12 best German. Geiger disappointed with ranks 47, 31 and 30.