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Karl Geiger slapped his helmet with the flat of his hand and shook his head in disbelief. “Why not now?” Cried the world ski champion in frustration at the abandoned ski jumping stadium in Bergisel. Geiger has to bury his dreams of touring victory as a disappointing 16th despite a race to catch up on the German Mountain of Destiny in Innsbruck.
In good wind conditions, Geiger moved away from his brilliant starting position in the first round with a jump to just 117.0 m, as in the previous year. “The fact that it’s like that again this year makes you throw up. Sorry for the choice of words,” Geiger said. Eurosport frustrated. That is just “lousy bitter.”
The Oberstdorf winner fell from second to fourth in the overall standings, so Germany’s first win in the ski jumping show since Sven Hannawald’s “Grand Slam” 19 years ago is highly unlikely. “Right now I’m pretty pissed off and I’m not expecting anything from the overall standings. I don’t care either,” Geiger said.
World champion Markus Eisenbichler also failed to catch up decisively in sixth place with jumps at 120.5m and 128.5m. “I’ll talk to him and I definitely won’t give up,” said “Eisei” in the ARD. Norwegian top seed Halvor Egner Granerud (116.5m) also crashed completely unexpectedly.
Four Hills Tournament: Stoch takes overall lead
The Poles seized the opportunity: Kamil Stoch, a two-time winner of the Four Hills Tournament, won the day and took the lead overall after the third touring competition. The advantage over his compatriot and defending champion Dawid Kubacki is 15.2 points, Granerud (+20.6) and Geiger (+24.7) are already far behind.
The two tour leaders had never been the first to jump in the second round. Geiger did a little damage control with a jump to 128.5m and fell 0.1 point behind Granerud.
National coach Stefan Horngacher was also depressed. “That can happen, Karl is only human,” said the Austrian after the first round in the ARD. Horngacher remained confident: “We will not give up and we will keep fighting.”
The Bergisel curse hit the DSV-Adler again: in the last three years, Geiger (2020), Eisenbichler (2019) and Richard Freitag (2018) had also traveled to Austria in second place overall, and all were played. your opportunities in Innsbruck.
Four Hills Tournament: Friday has to go out
On Friday he even fell on the treacherous slope and had to exit the course. The only exception is the strong 2019 World Cup, when Eisenbichler was crowned world champion ahead of Geiger and both won team gold.
Martin Hamann had a good day for the German team in twelfth position. Former world champion Severin Freund (34th), Pius Paschke (36th) and Constantin Schmid (39th) missed the jump to the second round.
For Stoch, the tour is more than half the battle in purely statistical terms. Since 1995/96, of the 25 jump shots that led to Innsbruck, 23 were also ahead in the final score. In the last 21 editions, only Norwegian Tande (2016/17) lost his lead and finished third.
The decision in the fight for the Golden Eagle will be made on Wednesday (4.45 pm / live on DAZN) at the Dreikönigsspringen in Bischofshofen. After a day off on Monday, qualification for the final is on Tuesday’s schedule.
Four Hills tournament: the general classification at a glance
| site | Jumper | Nation | Total state |
| 1 | Kamil stoch | Poland | 809.9 |
| 2 | Dawid Kubacki | Poland | 794.7 |
| 3 | Halvor Egner Granerud | Norway | 789.3 |
| 4 | Karl Geiger | Germany | 785.2 |
| 5 | Markus Eisenbichler | Germany | 776.5 |
| 6 | Anze Lanisek | Slovenia | 770.4 |
| 7 | Ryoyu kobayashi | Japan | 766.7 |
| 8 | Piotr Zyla | Poland | 763.3 |
| 9 | Philipp aschenwald | Austria | 761.7 |
| 10 | Andrzej Stekala | Poland | 760.3 |
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