ExpandAnyone who follows ski jumping knows those tech controls could get weird and FIS always has the last laugh in the end. Something was definitely up and Horngacher might really regret the Willingen witch hunt. I suppose FIS got upset with all the snitching and went nuclear at the WOG of all places. I wonder if this was to stop the top teams from spying on each other.
Rules should be respected, no discussion about that. But it is crazy to change the standards within 2 days at the same event. When a suit is considered to be okay at the single's event, the athletes have to rely that one and the same suit is still okay 2 days later.
After all, these Olympics must feel very strange for Althaus. Winning a silver is really great, on the one hand. However, she had bad luck to say the very least in both her events.
Whatever. The DQ's are overshadowing that Slovenia was absolutely the best team today and Gold is more than deserved. Even without DQ's but with Kramer it would have been very hard for AUT to win Gold today.
ExpandDSQ for suits is always a grey area and the unofficial word is that top nation jumpers never get DSQ unless they don't have a chance for a medal anyway. I'd guess someone told the tech delegate (who was a Pole for the women) to play hardball by the rules this time.
The German coach said after 1st jump that Iraschko, Althaus and Takanashi all had the same suits as in the single's event. Althaus said that she had the feeling that the tech delegate controlled her as long as the delegate was able to find something. I don't know what happened. The only thing being sure is that the controls were conducted differently from all other events before.
If Kytosaho would have been able to start, Finland might have won the Bronze, I guess.
ExpandWe are one DQ away from Matthew Soukup winning an Olympic medal. What a competition.
Unbelievable
We are one DQ away from Matthew Soukup winning an Olympic medal. What a competition.
Fis quota page says that Italy accepted only 1 ski jumping quota for each gender, Finland rejected its third quota. Now up for reallocation as it seems.
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Oh don't mind me. I'm just this forum's bot, automatically replying when a certain level of bullshit is exceeded. Sure we'll talk again soon. 
Please just stop "Whose nation's dick is bigger?", issue 1896, thank you.
ExpandOur federation submit appelation to allow our jumpers to compete in tomorrow event, despite they didn't compete in qualifications. If FIS will not agree with this then they will "fight" to held qualifications again tomorrow before main event.
That situation sucks. But I fear an appeal would be useless - the local health authorities in Oberstdorf send the Polish team into quarantine, not the FIS. Of course, the FIS cannot overrule the decisions of local authorities. It is unlikely that quarantine order is abolished so quickly. Hopefully, they are at least allowed to participate in G-P (maybe except Muranka).
ExpandI don't want to answer to you and heywoodu, so here is my answer to both of you:
Calling Poland and Norway stronger is just kindergarten, please look at the overall world cup. Count the number of world cup victories and then think again whether it makes sense to call Norway stronger.
Althaus and Freitag both dominated the beginning of the season and then clearly got worse, otherwise they would have been the favorites here and certainly at least one of them would have won gold. After the season so far only 2 individual medals in the two individual competitions on the men's side certainly must be considered disappointing. Stoch winning gold here is just sad, of course he will be gone in 4 years, but other talents (Prevc) might take the gold then, so this was the big chance for Wellinger.
Freitag has every reason to be disappointed (as we'll never know how he would have performed without his fall in Innsbruck). But Wellinger wasn't that dominant during the season that you can predict two medals for sure. And the women's jumping: The podium reflects perfectly the world cup season. All three women deserved exactly the medal which they won.
Expandif Germany doesn't win the team event, the olympics were a complete fail for german ski jumping.
How can 1 gold and 2 silver after 3 events (additionally excellent perspectives for a team medal) be a complete fail for german ski jumping?! It's not that Germans completely dominated ski jumping during the last years..
Well deserved gold! Congrats to Stoch!
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I have no information about the suits used for the 2nd jumps. However, it would be crazy if Takanashi and Iraschko would have used the same suit they got DQ'ed for
But I would not exclude anything in this competition
I really wonder whether Stroem and Opseth used the same suits as in round 1 where everything was okay. Maybe the tech delegate was too busy to check Althaus, Takanashi and Iraschko 
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