Slovenia wins memorable mixed premiere at Olympics

Slovenia is the first Olympic winner in a mixed team competition.While this victory is well deserved, the competition is significantly influenced by a total of five disqualifications.

Slovenia lived up to his favorite role and won the Olympic premiere of the Mixed Team Competition very confidently.Nika Kriznar, Timi Zajc, normal hill Olympic champion Ursa Bogataj and Peter Prevc together scored 1001.5 points and were a whopping 111.2 points before the silver rank.

This was made by the Quartet of the Russian Olympic Committee from Irma Makhinia, Danil Sadreev, Irina Avvakumova and Evgeniy Klimov, which came to 890.3 points.The bronze medal went to the Canada team even more surprised with Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes with 844.6 points.For all three nations it was the first medals for a mixed team jumping in major events.

Disqualification quake provides outrage

The outcome of the competition was significantly influenced by a total of five disqualifications against ski jumpers, who still provided great discussion material during the ongoing competition.Among them was Katharina Althaus, who had shown a formidable jump at 104 meters, also a German.Their points were taken out of the rating, so Selina Freitag, Constantin Schmid and Karl Geiger came to only 350.9 points and thus by nine points as bitter ninth missed the final.Karl Geiger's best jump on the difficult normal hill at 101.5 meters proved to be worthless for the performance of the German team.

Japan's catch -up in vain

The team from Japan experienced a roller coaster ride of the feelings.In the middle of the first round, the start jumper Sara Takanashi was the first jumper in the course of the competition, which triggered numerous tears with her.But Yukiya Sato, Yuki Ito and Ryoyu Kobayashi continued to fight and brought their team to the final.There Takanashi also defied her tears and contributed their part to chase.This would almost be found by only 8.3 points in bronze after Kobayashi showed the longest jump of the day with 106 meters.But Boyd-Clowes stuck against 101.5 meters and defended this attack.

Austria also had to bite into the sour apple in the form of a missed medal.In the team from the Alpine Republic, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, who reported after jumping in the 'ORF': “For me, the hip ribbon was not a centimeter.We sewed it in advance so that a disqualification should not happen and now it has happened.In principle, the suit and the cut was compliant.“Manuel Fettner, Lisa Eder and Stefan Kraft delivered their level accordingly, but the deficit was too big and in the end was over 30 points on bronze.

Norway caught it twice

Norway also caught it hard in the material container: Silje Opseth and Anna Odine Stroem were disqualified in the final.Thus, the Scandinavians, for whom Robert Johansson and Marius Lindvik also jumped, landed only six jumps in the rating.There was no more than eighth place.Profitors of his were Poland (Nicole Konderla, Dawid Kubacki, Kinga Rajda and Kamil Stoch), as well as the Czech Republic (Klara Ulrichova, Cestmir Kozisek, Karolina Indrackova and Roman Koudelka), who became sixth and seventh - without disqualifications.

China completely without a chance

As before, the China, which for the first time put a mixed team for the first time, was completely without a chance and put off the tithe and thus last place.Since only a ski jumper had qualified for the Olympic Games with Qiwu Song, the hosts had to fall back on an exceptional sail that says that they can nominate a Nordic combinator to fill up.That was Jiawen Zhao, who added the team around the two women Bing Dong and Qingyue Peng.

The ski jumper now have a day break before two training days with three passages on the Großschanze are coming on Wednesday and Thursday.The qualification for the individual follows on Friday, which takes place on Saturday (both 12 noon CET / everything live at SkiSpringen.com).

For the ski jumpers, the Olympic Games in Beijing ended.From 24.up to 27.February is the World Cup in Hinzenbach (Austria), where the first and only team jumping will take place in the course of the season.