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Polish ski jumpers can now start at the beginning of the Four Hills Tournament. The organizers announced this Tuesday morning. Another series of coronavirus tests with the team around defending champion Dawid Kubacki and Olympic champion Kamil Stoch had previously been negative. Then the responsible health department lifted the quarantine for the team.
A positive CoV test with ski jumper Klemens Muranka had led to the exclusion of the Poles from qualifying on Monday and from the inaugural competition in Oberstdorf scheduled for Tuesday (4.30pm, live on ORF1).
By Monday night Muranka and his teammates had received completely negative results, and the International Ski Federation (FIS) had announced that the team could now start if the test result was more negative.
First round with 62 starters
After all, with the decision to let the Poles start, the mode of competition will change on Tuesday. Instead of the elimination duels of the best 50 jump shots in the first round, there will be a first round with the 62 athletes. Direct delete mode does not apply.
Two hours before the competition, a training round for the Poles was included in the program, at 3 pm there will be a test race. Austrian Philipp Aschenwald won qualifying on Monday. The Tyrolean received a “winner’s check” for 5,000 euros. FIS race director Sandro Pertile claimed that prize money would also be awarded if qualification was not held as an official competition due to new knowledge.
Excluded from rating
Florian Stern, general secretary of the inaugural competition in Oberstdorf, had emphasized on Monday afternoon that the results of the additional tests would no longer have any influence on the exclusion of Oberstdorf. At lunchtime he announced the expulsion of the entire Polish team. “We are very sorry for this decision, but to protect all other athletes, the health department had no other choice,” it was quoted in a statement.
The tests of Muranka’s teammates were negative, but they were in contact group 1, meaning that they had direct contact with Muranka for more than 15 minutes or were in a closed room or vehicle with him for more than 30 minutes. . Therefore, they were not allowed to participate in qualifying on Monday afternoon and were initially excluded from the start of the tour in Allgäu.
With the subsequent exit permit, Kubacki can tackle his successful title defense and Stoch is hopeful of his third win on the tour. In the last twelve years, the winners of the tour came from just four countries. Poland triumphed three times.
