Media, the last weeks of the 2024/2025 ski jumping season are a gauntlet for the Norwegian team-or for what is still left of it after the suit scandal at the home World Cup in Trondheim. Sport.de spoke at the World Cup final in Planica with one who has now been unexpectedly used – and is looking for normality.
The weather in the actually fantastically beautiful Planica valley adapts to the situation in ski jumping this weekend: basically the entire circus is in the rain – some participants voluntarily, the others because they have to.
The second group definitely also includes the quintet from Norway, which already caused a rarity on Friday that even the most intelligent statisticians were amazed: for the first time in 23 years, individual jumping was held by men without a Norwegian athlete. At the last time, namely on the last time, namely on January 11th and 12th 2002, no Norwegians were registered in Willingen – at the time they completely waived participation after the four -hill tour.
Ski jumper Jørgensen: “Must take my chances”
Here in Planica only those who are left after the suit scandal at the World Cup in Trondheim. Such as Sindre Ulven Jørgensen. The 22-year-old comes from Asker, a suburb of Oslo and jumps for the ski club there, like Tom Hilde or the currently injured two-time World Cup winner Halvor Egner Granerud.
He shrugs a little with his shoulders when he accounts for his performance in team flying, at the end of which his team ended up in sixth place. The team, however, was scheduled for replacement man Bendik Jakobsen Heggli, who even waved his colleagues at the coaching tower.
200 and 190.5 meters were succeeded in Jørgensen, at least the first round was reasonably conciliatory: “I am so happy that at least I cracked the 200. That was the first time this season and now I can go into the break with better self -confidence,” he said in conversation with sport.de.
Otherwise, it was “a hard winter,” he admits: “I have complicated the simplest things and have to come up with something by the next season.”
He was unable to collect any World Cup points in the individual, unlike in the prevailing winter, in which he became 47. Also in the second-class Continental Cup, in which he is actually on the road, he remained under his expectations with four top ten results in winter, but made it clear: “I am super motivated to do better.”
You can tell the giant, who is just as big at 1.94 meters as football superstar Erling Haaland and thus the biggest jumper in the field, that these “rare occasions”, like the RAW-Air or recently in Lahti and here in Planica, mean a lot. That is why his principle is: “I just have to take advantage of my chances. You are simply a reason to learn, just a reason to be there.”
Mood in ski jumping tense? “All the best boys”
Despite the heavily battered image of the Norwegian team, the handling of jumping circles is no different, he reports: “I do not feel that something is different when I talk to other athletes or teams. We all get on well and everything is nice boys, just like we are.”
He could not confirm that he and his compatriots would now be controlled more strictly than before or the international competition. “This is a standard procedure. The inspectors control us very thoroughly, but they know that we have everything under control. We are the B team and come from outside the World Cup,” he said.
He could only partially understand that the disqualification of his teammate Isak Andreas Langmo had made such large waves on Thursday. sport.de Even why: “If you have the abdominal circumference measured, it changes very strongly during the day. You wake up with a measure, then drink a glass of lemonade and then have a completely different measure, and after pee you have a completely different measure again.”
This type of disqualification makes the athletes “angry”, but are normal in ski jumping and are primarily related to “that not much is checked when checking the pre -start.” He would therefore like “that maybe that will be done differently in the next season.” Just as he wants to make the basic things differently and, above all, better.