Granerud received hate messages: – No problems – VG

– What I wanted to say is that it has not shown a stable jump, and that it is not impossible to take the 20 points. And it’s true. I got 15 points in Garmisch, Halvor Egner Granerud answers questions about what he Really I meant after 15th place in Innsbruck on Sunday.

Then took off what was perceived as a harsh tirade against the jumpers of Poland in general, and the godfather of Poland, Kamil Stoch, in particular.

On Monday night, during a digital press conference with Norwegian and foreign media, he received a series of follow-up questions about the outbreak. Well noted after apologizing in a video, which according to Jump Boys media contact Steinar Bjerkmann has now been viewed by more than 300,000 users.

Show jumping week ends at Bischofshofen on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Halvor Egner Granerud is 20.6 points behind Kamil Stoch before the final. Stoch’s compatriot Dawid Kubacki is in second place.

During the press conference on Monday evening, Egner Granerud admitted to the Polish media that he had had a difficult day after the recession in Innsbruck. However, he believes that what he said in the interview that caused the uproar – with TV 2- “was a little skewed.” National team manager Alex Stöckl says the biggest problem, in his opinion, was the translation from Norwegian into another language.

– It made someone angry, and that’s not what I meant, replied Egner Granerud, the favorite of the Norwegian jumpers.

The most angry reacted with provocation and a kind of threat on social networks, which was finally read by Halvor Egner Granerud. When asked about the content of the incitement, he replies that “I have to be careful when I go to Zakopane in a week and a half.”

– I hope it’s not troublesome. I think it will not be problematic. There are no interesting messages to receive in your inbox, admits after Nettavisen questions.

He believes it was beneficial for him to have a day off after the riots in Innsbruck.

– I have not had to think about ski jumping and I have relaxed. It has hummed and gone as usual, he says.

He also says that he doesn’t feel tired as a result of pressure from the media, and he doesn’t think he’s too hot on the top cap. National team coach Alex Stöckl says that in his “talk” with Egner Granerud stressed that he had to be honest in saying that what he originally said – in the famous interview – “was never what was perceived”.