Czech skiers’ coach Vasja Bajc at a press conference before the Olympic season.
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“We are moving the technique towards a more aggressive style and I want to see that the boys step on it and at the same time they can stabilize the jumps. A lot of work was done at the training camps in Planice and Zakopane, and I believe that at the end of the week at the premiere of the World Cup, it will show, “Bajc looks out for the first part of the series in Nizhny Tagil, but only Viktor Polášek and Čestmír Kožíšek go.
The coach chose Jan Matura as his assistant, who returned home to use his experience working abroad. “We are here to help the boys achieve better results than they had last winter. We provide them with service and psychological support. “Maybe we are going in the right direction and we will drive points,” he indicated. “For me, the biggest motivation is that every race can show two successful jumps.
From left, the ski jumpers are Viktor Polášek, Čestmír Kožíšek and Roman Koudelka.
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Former Czech number one Roman Koudelka, after a knee operation in February and more than four months of rehabilitation at a sports clinic, is just starting to jump on smaller bridges.
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“I had a cruciate ligament plastic, I had a torn piece of meniscus and another cup was paralyzed. The knee was very devastated, the extent of the injury was about a year and I completed my first jumps after eight months. Rehabilitation accelerated it a lot and Dr. Staša, who operated on me, did a perfect job, “Koudelka suggested, who should join the team at the turn of the year at the Four Bridges Tour at the latest.
Another national team jumper, Vojtěch Štursa, ended his career at the age of 26, so Bajc added young people from Lejsko, Hausr, Rýdl and Holík, who will still take part in the Continental Cups, but for one of them Olympic hopes could also shine.
The highlight of the season for the ski jumping team is the February Olympic Games in Beijing, where, for the first time in history, Czech women, especially Klára Ulrichová and Karolína Indráčková, could also qualify. In addition, a mixed team competition will take place in Beijing for the first time and the Czechia wants to be in the action.
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