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Worsening back problems prevent Stefan Kraft from starting Friday’s singles competition at the Ski Flying World Championships in Planica. The Salzburg native has yet to give up hope in Sunday’s team competition. Michael Hayböck was great in the classification.
Since Alexander tagger | 5:03 pm, December 10, 2020
If you are not lucky, there is also bad luck. Due to a crown disease Stefan kraft he missed the World Cup competitions in Ruka and Nizhny Tagil, but reported that he fit in again in time for the World Ski Flight Championships in Planica. In Slovenia, the overall winner of the World Cup landed yesterday in the first training session at a sensational 239 meters, but then came the impact. So he shot the Salzburg man in the back after the jump – the block makes it impossible to start the individual competition (today the first two of the four rounds start at 4pm). It’s still open whether the 28-year-old world record holder will be able to take off in the team competition on Sunday.
“Too bad. The first flight was a lot of fun. It’s a problem that has plagued me all summer. My back closes up, I can’t bend down anymore. Then he stabs me in the back and in the front of the hip flexor. they close completely, “says Kraft, explaining the problem. But:” As soon as it arrives, it usually goes away as fast as it is. Maybe the tension will release quickly and I can be there on Sunday, “the 28-year-old does not lose the hope.
Kraft: “It’s not a herniated disc”
He was shot in the Austrian’s back this year in June and July. And again in October at the Austrian championships. Kraft: “It is an overload of the muscles. There’s too much tension, a nerve has too little room, and I can’t even bend over. But everything is fine with the spine, nothing to do with a herniated disc ”, Kraft had recently explained in an interview with Kleine Zeitung.
But there is also good news from the red-white-red eagle’s nest. So the last one who also got Corona sick ended Michael Hayboeck with the personal best of 242.5 meters in qualifying behind Markus Eisenbichler (GER) second. Also here today Philipp Aschenwald, Gregor Schlierenzauer and debutant Timon-Pascal Kahofer.
The Swiss are not in the World Cup. After the head coach Ronny Hornschuh tested positive, the team had to leave Planica again. The Norwegian is not Marius lindvikfeeling “mentally unprepared” to ski.
