Stefan Kraft gets sighing for relief that he is not a cross -country skier.

Stefan Kraft was not smiling before the World Cup starts. Kimimasa Mayama

Ski jumper Stefan Kraft Didn’t enjoy the cat’s days before the start of the World Cup.

One of the biggest gold favorites in the World Cup found himself in a bitter encounter with a neighbor’s cat.

“I and the cat were playing, but suddenly it was no longer fun for the cat,” Kraft said For NRK.

The cat Puri and scratched the Austrian palm to the fact that he had to take tetanus and diphtheria vaccines and eat a week-long antibiotic course.

Star, who had conquered last year’s World Cup, said that the situation would have been serious if he had been an athlete of different sports.

– If I were a cross -country skier or an athlete who has to use his hands, I don’t think it would have worked.

Kraft held a couple of rest days, after which he was like a new man.

Ailments have been strained through kraft before the cat attack.

The 31-year-old jumper has suffered from back problems. Now, however, things are modeled.

– Everything is fine now. I’m completely focused on the race, he decided.

Kraft was outside the prize ball in Sunday’s Normal Hill competition. Kraft was the sixth of the race. Gold rinsed Norway Marius Lindvik.

Kraft Landman Jan Hoerl jumped on the bronze. German Andreas Wellinger took silver.

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