After the World Cup decision in the combination on Saturday, the German team lodged protest and harvested sharp criticism.
Big air with the combineds: Norway’s top star Jarl Magnus Riiber has practiced sharp criticism of the German team after their objection in the course of the World Cup decision on Saturday (March 1).
Riiber is heading against DSV
“I am really bad and I get a lot of adrenaline when I think about how you can behave so badly“, said the record world champion of the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet: “This is disgusting.”
After the race that Riiber won in the target sprint in front of his compatriot Jens Luraa’s frequentebro and the German athletes Vinzenz Geiger and Julian Schmid, the DSV managers had taken protest because frequenteBro is said to have crossed the route limit with a ski.
Eisnpruch stored
However, the objection was quickly rejected. “Something like that is simply unsportsmanlike”said Riiber, who initially assumed that the protest against him was directed. Freybro also expressed his incomprehension: “You just tried this to get another medal. You are welcome to try that, but we Norwegians wouldn’t have done it that way“, said the 24-year-old.
According to the frequenteBro, the German team would ultimately apologize to him. Geiger said at the press conference after the race: “I don’t understand the protest, I can’t say anymore.”
Hüttel: “Must work for our athletes”
The German sports director Horst Hüttel justified the protest. He could understand Riiber’s displeasure, said Hüttel, “But ultimately we have to work for our athletes”. The German managers were therefore informed by Italians and Austrians about a possible violation of the rules.
The route has left often twice
“Then it was said that you have no handling, it has to be a protest”, said Hüttel, who was then also filed due to the short appeal period of 15 minutes: “Then it was checked with the result that often the route left the route twice.” According to FIS, this was not enough for a sanction. Hüttel later communicated with Ivar Stuan, the sports director of Norway’s combined: “I explained that to him and we are fine.”
On Thursday, riiber and frequentbro will meet Geiger and Schmid again in the individual race, and on Saturday the two top nations argue about relay gold. It could be very heated duels now.