Four Hills ski event in Oberstdorf postponed to Monday – Aftenbladet.no

snowy weather and high winds destroyed Sunday competition.

Oberstdorf (aftenposten.no): The wind made it impossible to undertake the first Four Hills competition in Oberstdorf Sunday.

The organizers delayed race start several times in hopes of better conditions, and also launched the race three times. Quarter past seven on Sunday evening, two hours and three minutes after scheduled race start, had 11 of the 50 runners have been downhill. When the jury decided to cancel.

The organizers have now decided that the race will take place Monday at half past five.

Jacobsen: – Correct cancel

Anders Jacobsen jury took the right decision in canceling Sunday.

– When I jumped, I felt that it was safe, but the wind is so special. I got a training jump more than the others. For those who favorites, stupid that they wait so long. But it is clear that there are TV rights and sponsors and all, he says to Aftenposten.

– I was number seven out today and then I must be left on top. When they expose all the time, it’s about being patient. Not optimal to wait a couple of hours on top. I had a calling with coach on top. Then chatted Alex (Stöckl) to me when I was taken by the boom. Alex said it was fighting conditions and much buoyancy. When you become confident, Jacobsen says.

– As long as the wind is steady, it can be 12 (meters per second), but the wind is so much tilted, and then it can be ugly fall nor are any advertisement for the sport. It is the value of the Four Hills Tournament they are afraid of and that competition will not be fair. It is my conclusion, says Anders Jacobsen.

Want with all four hills

Had there been training it would be possible to discontinue the race.

– The wind is simply far too variable now, from the side so behind and from the front. Then you can not get a fair race, and it must have, says expert commentator Johan Remen Evensen from NRK.

– The weather determines, adds the former big jumper to.

Good sales of beer, wine, sausages and soup

Four races in Four Hills belongs to the application. Everyone will have full application, but the weather can be capricious. During the termination of qualifying the day before, everything went very smoothly.

The only ones who had to make the arena were those who sold glühwein, beer, sausages and soup. Because as the cold went from the soles upward in the body during a long wait, sales of food and beverages.