Former tour winner
Ski jumper calculates with ex-coach: “borders on a crime”
Updated on March 31, 2025 – 12:21 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The ski jumping season ended last weekend. And at the end one or the other jumper had a need for speech.
At the end of the ski jumping season in Planica, Poland Dawid Kubacki billed with ex-national coach Thomas Thurnbichler. The tour winner (2019/20) was deeply disappointed after the last World Cup competition and went hard with the Austrian in the mixed zone.
“For two and a half years we did not manage to get him to bring some rest into the coaching work. And so we had big problems. That caused a lot of vertebrae,” said Kubacki at Eurosport.
Cooperation was particularly difficult when dealing with Kamil Stoch. The former tour winner Stoch has been training alone with an individual coach for a long time – apparently a dispute behind the scenes. Kubacki said: “I don’t want to go into detail, but what he (Thurnbichler, editor’s note) did to make life difficult to make life difficult.”
The Pole also accused Thurnbichler of having promoted the athletes too little: “If you see that someone throws the athlete stick between their legs and that it is the head coach, it is difficult to have fun.” Thurnbichler will be replaced by Maciej Maciusiak in the future. A welcome change for Kubacki.