– It was Innsbruck in a nutshell. For the first time, I get to try having some flow in the second half. It was very good. It felt a bit hopeless in the first half, where I felt I delivered a pretty eel-like jump, but didn’t get paid at all. It was amazing to just pop straight out of the ground and put down. It was a fantastic feeling, says Granerud to news. 34, 21, disqualified, 33 and 15. Halvor Egner Granerud’s streak on the Bergisel hill in Innsbruck was not particularly impressive before Wednesday’s race. Having had more difficult conditions than the other favorites in the first round, the Norwegian was in sixth place after the first round, 12.8 points behind Dawid Kubacki. In the second half, it was Granerud who was in control of the conditions and responded with by far the longest jump of the competition at a whopping 133 metres. And that with a rock-solid impact. – That was amazing. It was so incredibly good to see that in normal conditions he made a good ski jump and outclassed the rest of the field by a large margin. He takes a lot into Kubacki and dares to put a shot of 133 meters in quite demanding conditions. It’s completely wild, says national team coach Alexander Stöckl to news. Kubacki jumped 121.5 meters, which was enough to win, 3.5 points ahead of Granerud. Before the last jump in Hoppuka, Granerud now leads with 23.3 points. See Granerud’s super jump here: Relieved after the first round Halvor Egner Granerud had 26.8 points down to Dawid Kubacki after two of four races in the German-Austrian show jumping, but the Norwegian has often struggled on the Bergisel hill in Innsbruck. After a “clear mistake” in Tuesday’s qualifying, Granerud had to start right in the middle of the first round. In relatively poor conditions, he jumped 123 meters and went into the lead. – It felt quite heavy. It goes up and down a bit. That’s how it is here. The only thing I get to do something more is how I jump. I think I delivered well under the prevailing conditions, said Granerud to news. – I am relieved to have had a good start to the competition, he said further. Stöckl dissatisfied with the jury Towards the end of the round, both conditions and longer jumps improved. Towards the end of the half, the speed was also reduced. First once and then once more before Kubacki was going to duel. The Pole responded with 127 meters and took a clear lead. And suddenly the lead of 26.8 points had become 14 points in the summary for Granerud. Norway’s national team coach, Alexander Stöckl, shook his head at the decision to go down another barrier before Kubacki. That gave Kubacki another 4.3 extra points. – It was a bit strange that the jury chose to go down one more barrier. It was not jumped too far and we know that those before Kubacki also showed very good jumping. Then the jury chooses to go down one more barrier. It was a very nice gift Kubacki received from the jury. Thanks to them, Stöckl told TV 2. See Granerud’s jump in the first half here: The coach went on to say that he thought Granerud would have been ahead of Kubacki if he had jumped with the same speed and conditions. He was so dissatisfied that he contacted the assistant technical delegate in the racing jury. – I asked that the best runners get roughly the same speed and that you don’t choose to go down if it’s not necessary, said Stöckl, who confirmed that he was “a little pissed off”. news’s jumping expert, Anders Bardal, pointed out shortly after Kubacki’s jump that Kubacki, like Granerud, received an extra charge due to the wind conditions. – Fantastic ski jump from Dawid Kubacki. He actually has a tailwind and with a couple of ledges lower than Granerud, said Bardal. In great form in Germany Halvor Egner Granerud wreaked havoc in the first two races of the German-Austrian show jumping. Both in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen there was victory for Granerud, who thus had a lead of 26.8 points before the last two races. Historically, it has been tantamount to victory. 13 times previously, the leader has had a gap of at least 15 points after two races. Only in 1972, when the Japanese team led by Yukio Kasaya went home after three of four races to prepare for the Olympics in Sapporo, has a lead of over 15 points after two races not ended in overall victory. However, Granerud has struggled to find his flow on the Bergisel hill in Innsbruck. In five attempts in individual races in the show jumping and WC, he had 15th place as his best result before Wednesday’s race. Ahead of the race, Granerud had also varied. He was the longest both in the first training session on Tuesday and in the test round on Wednesday, but was only number 13 in Tuesday’s qualification. In the second half of Wednesday’s race, he really got full throttle and thus he still has a big grip before the show jumping ends in Bischofshofen on Friday.
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