Ski Jumping Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[rybak 3,302]

Next year Polish Championships will be held during Olympic Games, it was announced today 

[heywoodu 15,997]

6 hours ago, rybak said:

Next year Polish Championships will be held during Olympic Games, it was announced today 

I wonder who will skip the Olympics in order to attend

 

[Kerkun 51]

It will be few days after the last ski jumping event at the Olympics. Nothing to worry. Only some sponsors won't be happy and the B team that will go to the Continental Cup.

[Kerkun 51]

We had the first Grand Prix competitions this weekend in  Courchevel, including the new High Five format on Sunday. High Five is a competition where ski jumpers are divided into groups of five using the serpentine system based on the quali or previous competition results - two best of each group and 4 or 5 lucky losers (women and men respectively) move forward to the second round. For the final classification, only the score in the second round counts. It's quite rough around the edges, not easy to follow in the TV broadcast, and will be tested once again next week in  Wisła.   Nika Prevc won on Saturday while  Abigail Strate did so on Sunday, likewise  Marius Lindvik and  Niklas Bachlinger.

I think  Slovakia had one of the best weekends ever. Hektor Kapustik was P28 and P17 , while his younger sister Kira Maria P28 was and P27. And don't forget about Tamara Mesikova with P22 and P23. Slovakia is very close to having at least one ski jumper in each gender at the Olympics.  @hckošice

 Frida Westman had a solid proper return to scoring points with P15 and P16.

To finish the update, on the men's side  lost its sole provisional quota for now thanks to  Raimund claiming the yellow bib by coming second twice.

Edited August 10 by Kerkun

[Grassmarket 4,026]

Norwegian jumpers & team charged over the suits issue from the end of last season.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c5y33zg5n0yo

[Federer91 3,020]

23 hours ago, Kerkun said:

We had the first Grand Prix competitions this weekend in  Courchevel, including the new High Five format on Sunday. High Five is a competition where ski jumpers are divided into groups of five using the serpentine system based on the quali or previous competition results - two best of each group and 4 or 5 lucky losers (women and men respectively) move forward to the second round. For the final classification, only the score in the second round counts. It's quite rough around the edges, not easy to follow in the TV broadcast, and will be tested once again next week in  Wisła.   Nika Prevc won on Saturday while  Abigail Strate did so on Sunday, likewise  Marius Lindvik and  Niklas Bachlinger.

I think  Slovakia had one of the best weekends ever. Hektor Kapustik was P28 and P17 , while his younger sister Kira Maria P28 was and P27. And don't forget about Tamara Mesikova with P22 and P23. Slovakia is very close to having at least one ski jumper in each gender at the Olympics.  @hckošice

 Frida Westman had a solid proper return to scoring points with P15 and P16.

To finish the update, on the men's side  lost its sole provisional quota for now thanks to  Raimund claiming the yellow bib by coming second twice.

Oh God, a group stage format in a skiing event  Everyone seemingly wants to have a group stage nowadays. 

 

That being said, i've been advocating to have more variety in competitions for some time. Though i said they should use the knockout system more often and not only at the Four Hills. If there is life in this group stuff, you can add it to a couple of starts in the season. Guess they are looking to make the first round more "important and exciting" in that you would have direct battles every 5 jumpers with stakes and not just wait 45 until the best arrive.

[copravolley 498]

Lara Malsiner out of all Olimpics season I'm afraid this might be the end of her career

 

https://www.fondoitalia.it/2025/08/11/salto-con-gli-sci-stagione-finita-per-lara-malsiner-sfuma-il-sogno-olimpico/

Edited August 11 by copravolley

[evil betty 65]

a quick look at the impact of the first summer grand prix on the olympic tables; I think in women's  +1 and  +1,  and  both -1. In men's  +1,  -1 with  and  keeping the same quotas but swapping D.1 and D.2 allocations with each other.  

 

There are a lot of moving parts so I could have easily missed something though.

[Grassmarket 4,026]

1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

Oh God, a group stage format in a skiing event  Everyone seemingly wants to have a group stage nowadays. 

 

That being said, i've been advocating to have more variety in competitions for some time. Though i said they should use the knockout system more often and not only at the Four Hills. If there is life in this group stuff, you can add it to a couple of starts in the season. Guess they are looking to make the first round more "important and exciting" in that you would have direct battles every 5 jumpers with stakes and not just wait 45 until the best arrive.

It's like Nordic Combined.  Every few years they go on this kick wherein they introduce all sorts of new kinds of race formats, but once the Olympics come round it is back to the good old Gundersen again.  

[Kerkun 51]

51 minutes ago, evil betty said:

a quick look at the impact of the first summer grand prix on the olympic tables; I think in women's  +1 and  +1,  and  both -1. In men's  +1,  -1 with  and  keeping the same quotas but swapping D.1 and D.2 allocations with each other.  

 

There are a lot of moving parts so I could have easily missed something though.

According to my calculations, in men's  +1,  moved up do D.1, 2nd ski jumper for  and  demoted to D.2,  -1.