Ski Jumping at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[intoronto 5,903]

  On 2/8/2018 at 1:05 PM, OlympicsFan said:

I am really surprised by how many people there are, very good job Korea!

Medals should be between Stoch, Kubacki, Forfang, Wellinger and Johansson.

Personally i think that Stoch will win 3 golds here, making him the greatest olympic ski jumper of all times.

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they gave a lot of tickets to volunteers for free and 

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 2/8/2018 at 1:07 PM, intoronto said:

they gave a lot of tickets to volunteers for free and 

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Good to know, but i think the athletes don't care who cheers for them. I am always sad when athletes have to compete in front of small crowds at the olympics, this is the moment they worked for 4 years after all ...

In Sochi even handing out free tickets probably wouldn't have helped ...

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/8/2018 at 1:07 PM, intoronto said:

they gave a lot of tickets to volunteers for free and 

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I've been eagerly waiting for what comes after 'and' for 6 minutes  

[heywoodu 15,355]

And yeah, no matter if it's volunteers or school children or whatever, people are people so this is good. 

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Kubacki 

[Gianlu33 4,750]

Wellinger  What great jump for him

[dcro 10,210]

Kazakhstan missed the cut by one place.

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Great qualifications for us 

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 2/8/2018 at 1:24 PM, Gianlu33 said:

Wellinger  What great jump for him

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Not really ... far worse than his previous jump.

Hopefully Freitag won't win a medal if he jumps like that, he is at 80% of his top shape at best, would be a bad sign if he would win a medal with that. Like i said before: Ski jumping is in it's worst state i can remember, the "absence" of slovenian and austrian athletes clearly hurts the level of competition.

[Pavlo 149]

  On 2/8/2018 at 1:07 PM, OlympicsFan said:

True and Stoch looked bad, but that is not unusual for him. I still think that the 3 golds are his to lose, very hard to see him not winning at least 2 golds.

Edit: Wellinger always has a problem with being consistent, wouldn't be surprised if he wouldn't be top 5 in qualification.

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looks like Wellinger being a fav, Stoch silver

Kubacki maybe for bronze but it will be very close, he got terrible notes, if he improves the style we have 3 favs