I Nordic World Ski Championships Of Planica are now close to opening. The men’s ski jumping will be the last discipline to assign the own inaugural title. In fact, the fund will confer the first golds on Wednesday, the women’s jump will do it on Thursday and Saturday the Nordic combined will have already elected two champions before the start of the competition in which the jumpers will compete for the medals.
Better, because there are so many situations to eviscerate on matter. In light of what we’ve seen this winter, almost every man in sight can accomplish something striking either for themselves or for the previous discipline. Don’t want it David Kubacki, but he is the only one of the big ones who does not represent a real reason of interest on a historical level. The others, however, are playing something important. Here’s who and why.
GRANERUD Halvor Egner – Ruler of the current winter, he has hoisted himself to altitude 23 World Cup victories. However, the count of gold medals in major events (Olympics and World Championships) is still none. No man has ever passed the 20 affirmations in the top circuit without boasting at least one individual golden pendant. Planica can fill the gap of the Scandinavian, as well as open a wound for at least one year.
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POWER Stefan – The sum of individual world championship gold medals in his career says 3. The absolute record belongs to Adam Malysz (4). A success would allow the Salzburger to match the Pole as the most famous athlete in the World Cup. Wins on small trampoline, moreover, would become the first to win more than once on both plants. Triumph over large trampolineinstead, it would allow him to become the first to consecrate himself three times on Large Hill.
KOBAYASHI Ryoyu – Japanese world champions in XXI century? Nobody. The Land of the Rising Sun has been waiting for an individual world title since 1999, when a sensational hat-trick arrived on the small trampoline in Ramsau (Kazuyoshi Funaki gold, Hideharu Miyahira silver, Masahiko Harada bronze). A pendant with atomic number 79 will leave Europe for the first time in the III millennium?
LANISEK Anze (and all SLOVENIANS) – First of all, it must be said that Slovenia has hardly won world gold medals one in its history (Rok Benkovic in 2005). Not only because it became independent in 1991. The most precious metal has never arrived in the days of Yugoslavia. The strong theme but it is another. At the World Cup nobody is prophet at home from far away 1989when Finnish Jari Puikkonen he imposed himself on the big trampoline of Open. The representatives of the countries of Monte Tricorno have the task of bringing the organizers back into fashion.
STOCH Kamil, ZYLA Piotr, FETTNER Manuel – Cited in order of honors and “youth”. In Oberstdorf 2021 Zyla became the older All-time World Champion (34 years and 42 days), breaking the previous record. In the light of the identity card of those currently in the business, the performance expressed in the season and the talent, it is clear that each member of this trio can try to become the first man to be crowned World Champion closer to 40 years old than at 30.
RABBIT Timi, TSCHOFENIG Daniel – Who is the youngest current World Champion? Stefan Kraft, who saw the light on May 13, 1993! That said, who knows if one between Timi Zajc and Daniel Tschofenig won’t allow a one born in the 21st century to boast a world title for the first time. Impossible, however, to beat the precocity record set by Tommy Ingebritsen, still a minor when he hoisted himself on the top step of the world podium.
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