The German ski jumpers failed at the start of the World Cup in Wisla. But the DSV team doesn’t struggle with it too much, but sets other priorities in the long season.
During his interview on Sunday afternoon after the two World Cup opening competitions in Wisla, Markus Eisenbichler only made a short insertion on the sports show microphone. But he revealed a lot.
After 13th and 20th place, the 31-year-old ski jumper said that he now wanted to do more strength training and then regenerate in the next two weeks. In terms of strength in particular, he has some catching up to do.”to the competition in Kuusamo – because that’s where the season actually starts“. It’s a classification with which he probably also calms down the ski jumping nation a little after the mediocre start, in which only Katharina Althaus jumped onto the podium in second place among the women.
World Cup winter longer than ever
In Wisla, the season really got off to a good start on Saturday and Sunday, as a crowd of Polish fans could see for themselves with two victories for local hero Dawid Kubacki – albeit on mats and clearly prematurely. The Ski Jumping World Cup winter is longer than ever this time.
In order to avoid at least a little bit of all the back and forth around the football World Cup in Qatar from the end of November to mid-December (which was at least done with the mat jumping of Wisla), one must not forget: the season is stuck Full of highlights, but they take place at the same time as every winter – at the turn of the year the Four Hills Tournament and later the Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica (February 21 – March 6), followed by the Raw Air Tour and ski flying.
Horngacher: “Will use the next two weeks”
And Eisenbichler didn’t want to leave any doubt about that after his cautious start and reassure the ski jumping nation: “I continue to train very relaxed – and the highlight is the tour. We have to be honest about that.“Before the start, he had said that he wanted to withdraw from the public focus in the future and slow down his emotions.
Horngacher sees German team “not so far away“
Almost nobody in the German team was satisfied with the first World Cup stop, after all no jumper made it into the top ten. “In terms of results, it didn’t go very well. The top people are still missing the good jumps“said national coach Stefan Horngacher, who, like Eisenbichler, also thought:”We’re not that far away. We will use the next two weeks.”
Pius Paschke convinces from a German point of view
In addition to Eisenbichler, by the top players he also meant Geiger (34th and 18th) and Wellinger (23rd and 25th). Only Pius Paschke, who slipped into the team last, was convincing with two top 15 finishes.
Eisenbichler from Upper Bavaria, on the other hand, found: “I jumped better in training in Oberstdorf. I found it extremely difficult here. But my, that’s how it is in life.“
Being “actual“The start of the season in Kuusamo should be a month before the Four Hills Tournament. The DSV eagles then have to be measured against this performance.