Karl Geiger ended the three -month podium of the German ski jumpers in the manipulation scandal overshadowed by further revelations and locks in the manipulation scandal in Oslo.
At the victory of the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi, the Oberstdorfer landed in third place. Philipp Raimund as fifth and Andreas Wellinger also convinced in seventh place.
At the start of the four-day RAW-Air tour this time, Beijympian Kobayashi celebrated its 35th World Cup victory with flights to 129.5 and 127.0 m (264.1 points). The Austrian Jan Hörl (253.3) landed ahead of Geiger (252.4). Wellinger was still in second place after the first round and fell significantly.
“This is a lot of balm for our souls, we have a long suffering behind us,” said national coach Stefan Horngacher on “ZDF”. As the last DSV eagle, Pius Paschke was on the World Cup podium on December 15th in his victory in Titisee-Neustadt.
After that, the five-time winner of the season Paschke in particular fell into a deep crisis, 15 jumping in a row to missed Horngacher athletes the top 3. Wellinger, however, had already reached the podium at the World Cup in Trondheim as a normal hill.
Routinier Paschke also jumped in Oslo and missed the second round as 35th. Markus Eisenbichler, who announced his farewell at the end of the season on Wednesday, also eliminated as 41st.
A lot of vertebrae in the ski jump circus
“I wanted to put one on it, after all, I got down safely,” said the six -time world champion, “I want to enjoy the last few days and weeks now.”
The German record holder Eisenbichler is primarily the ski flying in Vikersund, where the RAW-Air tour is completed from Friday to Sunday. The overall winner collects 60,000 euros.
Previously, the World Association FIS had suspended three other Norwegian ski jumpers on Thursday at the World Cup in Trondheim for acute suspicions.
The athletes are the former ski flight world recorder Robert Johansson, the World Cup seventh Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Robin Pedersen. They were noticed during a follow-up of the Norwegians World Cup suits on Wednesday.