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redfiona99The first of the four was today, and while, due to conditions, the jumping wasn't up to much (barring certain exceptions), if the rest of them are that tense, it will be a very good year.
They had to reset the gate halfway through the first round, and even then, because of the rain and the back wind they weren't jumping all that far. Anyhow, after the finish of the first round, there are three Austrians in the top 5, and Janne Ahonen is in 11th about 10 metres back. So they jump, and because of the difficult wind conditions it's all a bit topsy-turvy.
Ahonen jumps 137 metres (the K point [a sort of average expected value] is 120 m). He wipes out all but one before him and that's Andi Kofler. All in all, pretty incredible. And it was such a beautiful jump because it wasn't a jump, it was a glide. The commentators had been saying how, previously, he was just missing that tiniest of pieces for it all to go click, and it looks like he's found it.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/29122009/58/andreas-kofler-wins-four-hills-opener-obertsdorf.html
They had to reset the gate halfway through the first round, and even then, because of the rain and the back wind they weren't jumping all that far. Anyhow, after the finish of the first round, there are three Austrians in the top 5, and Janne Ahonen is in 11th about 10 metres back. So they jump, and because of the difficult wind conditions it's all a bit topsy-turvy.
Ahonen jumps 137 metres (the K point [a sort of average expected value] is 120 m). He wipes out all but one before him and that's Andi Kofler. All in all, pretty incredible. And it was such a beautiful jump because it wasn't a jump, it was a glide. The commentators had been saying how, previously, he was just missing that tiniest of pieces for it all to go click, and it looks like he's found it.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/29122009/58/andreas-kofler-wins-four-hills-opener-obertsdorf.html
