– It was terrible to jump in these conditions. It felt like it was blowing in all directions and like the wind was coming from everywhere. It was chaotic. Robert Johansson was not impressed with the conditions during day two of the Raw Air competition in Holmenkollen. – It’s very difficult for me to have a day like this. It’s some shit, adds Johansson. REACTS: Robert Johansson had the run destroyed by the wind. He comes to news with strong criticism of the race. Photo: NTB The race was marked by delays due to wind, to the frustration of both athletes and experts. – I have a feeling that we could have been a bit out of this race, said news’s expert Johan Remen Evensen midway through the first half. – It would have been better to try a little later and try some other options instead of just driving through. Ryōyū Kobayashi gets Raw Air ruined by a round of bad conditions here, he added. – He mostly gets slaughtered After the second half, Halvor Egner Granerud was mildly dissatisfied. Like his teammate Johansson, the former also believes that the race should have been cancelled. – I think you could leave it alone, in a way. You get a list of results and you make Raw Air altogether very unpredictable. One could just as well leave it alone, and then luckily there will be two rounds which means that it will most likely be deserved where people are placed. To a slightly greater extent, at least. NOT IMPRESSED: Halvor Egner Granerud was one of the Norwegian jumpers who believes the race should have been cancelled. Photo: Geir Olsen / NTB – Did the conditions play a role? – It’s not exclusively circumstances, but I don’t think I’m being played well by the circumstances either. Granerud’s father is the race leader in Holmenkollen this Saturday. The son pointed the finger in the direction of the father, but does not want to put all the blame on him. – He mostly gets slaughtered after the race here, but I don’t necessarily know if it is his fault. – Unfortunately not entirely fair Race leader and father of Halvor Egner Granerud, Svein Granerud, thinks it was right to run the race, but understands that there is dissatisfaction going on. – It has been very challenging and unfortunately not entirely fair, but at least a usable game. I understand well if a couple or three jumpers are quite angry with us, but overall it was surprisingly the same. ANSWERS: Race leader Svein Granerud acknowledges the criticism from several of the Norwegian jumpers. Photo: NTB – We saw that things were about to calm down, then we’ve had it so that we’ve followed the meteorologists, then we’ve had periods of decent conditions and others where we’ve had to wait. It has been demanding, continues the race director. Furthermore, Granerud senior responds to his son’s claim that the race should have been cancelled. – It is difficult to completely agree with him. As long as it is in some way justifiable, we must in some way carry it out. We have a number of international obligations to make it happen. Then of course we can say that it is an outdoor sport. We would have liked it to have been like last night, it was much more fun to be in the race management then, he says, referring to Friday’s qualifying. – Do you think it was right to race today? – Yes. Father Granerud before the support of race leader in FIS, Sandro Pertile. He says to news that the athletes must accept bad conditions. – It was a challenging day. But we do an outdoor sport and we have to accept that. These are situations we will encounter, he says. – Of course we have some athletes who are disappointed, but on a day like today it is part of the game. Tomorrow they are ready to fight and continue Raw Air again, says Pertile. Delivered in poor conditions The Norwegian jumpers struggled on home turf. Johann André Forfang, who was the best of the Norwegians in Friday’s qualification, was also Norway’s best man after the first round. Then Tromsøværing was in third place behind Stefan Kraft and Timi Zajc. Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal also delivered a good first half, and was in fifth place before the victory was awarded. In the end, it was he who became Norway’s best man in Holmenkollen. He finished in second place. – It was great fun. It was exciting at the end, but I am very satisfied, he says to news. The 21-year-old delivered a very good jump in the second half, and was only beaten by Austrian Stefan Kraft. – When Kraft jumps like he does, I can be happy about the 2nd place. If there had been more coincidences, I would probably have been angrier, says Eriksen Sundal. The Raw-Air competition continues on Sunday.
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