– I’m just in pain. I want to go, says Granerud to news, an hour and a half after the counter. – Now I’ve been wandering around the barn for a little while. You’ll just be disappointed then, he says. – How did it happen? – Things were done a little differently at the top and I couldn’t do that, he says. At the top, the Norwegian Morten Solem was controller. Solem did not respond to news’s inquiries on Friday. Granerud receives support from several groups. Among other things from combined runner Espen Bjørnstad on Twitter/X. MASSE DISC: Combined runner Espen Bjørnstad believes things are done differently when Solem is at the top. Photo: Screen dump / Twitter/X – What is being reported, and I have also spoken to Solem, you have to stand a little differently than what the guys are used to from previous winters, says Magnus Brevig, Norway’s equipment manager. – The guys are always on the “limit” and if you have to lower your shoulders a little, let yourself down a little further and are on the “limit”, then it looks like you really smoked today. He (Solem) was really up front with the meat ax today. Race director Sandro Pertile says he doesn’t think anything was done differently and says they use the same approach in the past. – We will discuss it tonight, but the inspectors regularly share knowledge with each other. Something can happen and unfortunately it happened to Halvor today. It is part of the sport, says Pertile. Sports director Clas Brede Bråthen understands that Granerud is down. – He has had an extremely difficult season. This is one of the big goals for the season and it will expire before he gets started, says Bråthen. – It was the stride length. Have you stretched the elastic too far there? – It’s quite obvious, isn’t it? TRIAL ROUND: This is what it looked like when Granerud jumped in the trial round. Stöckl: – Very strange National team coach Alexander Stöckl realized little right after the counter was a fact. – I think it’s very strange, he said to news during the broadcast. Halvor Egner Granerud won both World Cup races in Kulm last year, but has struggled in this year’s season. During Friday’s first round in Kulm, Granerud was disqualified in the control before his first jump. – I haven’t been able to talk to him. It happened at the top, so there must be something wrong with the step measurement. We will find out later, said Stöckl. – I think his stress level is probably quite high after quite bad training rounds. Possibly he has not been able to stand correctly on the meter. We will find out when we have spoken to him, Stöckl continued. After the disqualification, Granerud is not allowed to skip any of the four rounds in the individual competition in the WC. – It seems that they have been extra strict at the top, that several have been dished out because of stride length. After all, these are experienced athletes who have been through that step goal several times and must have full control over it, said news’s jumping expert Johan Remen Evensen. 27-year-old Granerud was by far the best ski jumper last season, with victory in the World Cup overall and in the jump. This season he has a fourth place as the best from Engelberg before Christmas. Despite having won 25 World Cup races, Granerud is without an individual gold medal from the WC and Olympics. He has a silver from the WC in ski flying in Planica in 2021 as his only individual medal. In the same championship, he also took part in winning team gold. Forfang best of the Norwegian WC is organized over four rounds, two on Friday and two on Saturday. The best of the Norwegians is Johann André Forfang, who jumped 219.5 and 220 meters on Friday. – I think it is really well delivered by Johann. When we have complained about the stability, he has actually been the stability even today, said Remen Evensen. – He has found a good rhythm on the ground and I am very happy with that, said Stöckl. Forfang is in third place after two laps, 17.1 points behind Timi Zajc. Robin Pedersen, reigning world champion Marius Lindvik and Daniel-André Tande are respectively number eleven, 17 and 24 after two of four rounds. Lindvik was disappointed, but came to his senses after the WC’s first day. – I have a lot to go on. I’m not quite where I was two years ago. I can only take one day at a time, he said. Demonstrators occupied the finish area in Schladming 00:41 – I just wanted to jump to my death 00:58 Here it almost goes wrong – Pictures from TV 2 00:34 Vetle Sjåstad Christansen has also copied a “master” 00:44 Show more
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