With five races in a row without a win, Riiber is in his longest “winning streak” since 2018. Several periods of illness have contributed to making the winter demanding for the 25-year-old. After standing over a couple of races leading up to the World Cup, he is running as reigning world champion in the combined men’s normal hill race on Saturday. Under demanding conditions, he jumped a whopping 103.5 metres. – You world for a ski jump. Here I almost covered both my eyes and ears when I saw that he got the green light. It was far outside the corridor and extremely difficult conditions down in the air, and then he simply delivers 103.5 metres. That shows the class Jarl Magnus Riiber possesses in the show jumping hill, says news show jumping expert Johan Remen Evensen. That means he won the show jumping, 0.1 points ahead of Japan’s Ryota Yamamoto. The two will thus go out equally in the cross-country skiing, which starts at 15.30. Riiber’s biggest rival, Johannes Lamparter, is all the way down in 17th place, 1.35 behind Riiber. Riiber himself was hoping for a small lead before the cross-country skiing when news spoke to him after the test round. – Are you there that you have to have a little head start on the others, or what do you think about that? – I believe so. We saw at the women’s and men’s 30 kilometers yesterday that it was tough out there. It is rumored that they have added a little more salt. For me, it’s an advantage, because I don’t quite know where I stand in terms of cross-country skiing. Follow the rest of the broadcast here: World Cup debutant failed For World Cup debutant Simen Tiller, it was a disappointing show jumping race. He impressed with a jump of 98 metres, but he was subsequently dishonored because of an irregular jumping suit. – It’s a shame for Tiller, who delivers a good jump. Then we have to find out what has happened and fix it. It’s a shame for Simen, who is making his championship debut. He has looked good on the chop in recent days, says team-mate Jørgen Graabak. THUMBS UP TO THUMBS DOWN: Simen Tiller was very happy with his own jump, but was dished out afterwards. Photo: JURE MAKOVEC / AFP Can Tanger Ackermann Riiber had won the World Cup a total of four seasons in a row before the 2022/23 season. During those seasons he also won 48 out of 73 World Cup races held, of which Riiber finished 62 of them (and was beaten in one other). In championships, the Norwegian has not been as superb, with two out of six possible individual golds in the WC and Olympics in the mentioned period. Admittedly, he only ran one of two races in the Olympics in Beijing last year due to corona infection. Both of the two WC golds came after the normal hill race and on Saturday he therefore has the opportunity to challenge German Ronny Ackermann. The German is both the only one to have won three golds in a row in the normal slope and the only one to have won individual gold in three WCs in a row. Ackermann However, the winter season has not gone smoothly for Riiber. Admittedly, there were victories in four of the first six races of the season, but he is currently without a victory in 2023 and has four victories in eleven starts this winter (out of a total of 18 World Cup races). The New Year celebrations were marked by a stomach infection, caused by a parasite, and the Seefeld triple came to an abrupt end when the suit tore in the second of three races, four weeks ago. Since then, he has been training hard for the WC in Planica, where he has the opportunity to take his third individual WC gold. Cross-country skiing starts at 15.30 and can be followed here:
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