LILLEHAMMER / OSLO (AP) Kenneth Gangnes (26) lost 0.1 points Saturday. Sunday he responded by taking Norway’s 100th individual World Cup victory in ski jumping. The road to world leaders has been a little hell.
In 2010, smoke ligament in Gjerpenkollen.We in Drammen. It was summer training. National Team jumped in cross-dresser. Not far. But far enough that the knee could not handle it.
In 2013 was mishap again. Cruciate ligament in the same knee was destroyed during the Summer Grand Prix in Austrian Hinzenbach. When everyone thought it was the end. Also he himself.
– It’s a crazy feeling to win a ski jumping. I have worked hard bone. Once you’ve blown your knee you have to train a lot better than any other, says Kenneth Gangnes.
It was national coach Alexander Stöckl who recommended a private clinic in Innsbruck. Here work some of the world’s best surgeons with sports injuries. But it cost a lot of money. Gangnes will not date amount. But after what VG bill came to about 80,000 crowns.
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Saturday he lost with 0.1 points to Severin Freund. Sunday there was no doubt. Gangnes – the best thing that has happened skihopping on Toten since Roger Ruud heyday in the 80s – hammered and was clearly the best.
About the sit again as the last man in final say he told VG: – Yes, I was nervous. But it can not compare with how I felt when I took the first jump here on the same hill after recent surgery of cruciate ligament.
He got a good squeeze of his girlfriend Stine Gammelsrud when he left the Olympics -ground in Lillehammer in the evening darkness. The people of “hops church” stood around him. Teams Train Ener Alexander Stöckl, sports director Clas Brede Braathen, marketing manager Bjørn Einar Romøren and arena rigs Roger Ruud.
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RUUD-congratulation: The old big jumper Roger Ruud was rapidly advancing with paw and congratulated Kenneth Gangnes.
Photo: Geir Olsen , VG
– There are many to thank. But I have to thank my parents (Clive and Tom Erling) a little extra. Without them I would not have had the opportunity to jump on skis, says Gangnes.
NRK jumps expert Anders Jacobsen had the same injury as Gangnes. He knows the story behind.
– He has been far down, and it has been tough rounds. In addition, he even paid for the operation. It is not a given that he stands at the top of the podium. It’s about the support. But also about his own mentality. Kenneth is the kind that comes first on training and travel home last, says Anders Jacobsen.
Gangnes wanted to go home to your apartment in Lillehammer to relax on Sunday evening. Next stop in the World Cup in Russia this weekend. With money in the account he drops to worry when he logs on to the Internet bank. He has earned 173 000 million so far this season.
Previously, he worked part-time at the shop (Sport1) in Lillehammer.
– There I am going to continue with . I like to work, says Kenneth Gangnes.
He beat Slovenian Peter Prevc by 1.8 points. And in third place came Johann André Forfang. It was equaled career best for Tromso boy. Last year, he finished third in skiflyging in Vikersund when Anders Fannemel jumped to world record (251.5 meters).
– Third place in the 90-meter and third in skiflyging. Two on the podium in two days says little about the remarkable good team we have, says Forfang.
Gangnes roared out a solid dose of pure joy on the field after his last jump Sunday evening. And with good reason: He has only been on the podium once before in an individual ski jumping World Cup.
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It is also steeped in history of the Norwegian jumping feat: For this was Norway’s 100 individual victory in World Cup jumps. The first fixed Tom Kristiansen in 1980.
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Norwegian victories in Lillehammer there have been few the past few years: It is 11 years since the last time a Norwegian skip won an individual ski jumping at Mjøs town. The time it was Roar Ljøkelsøy standing on top of the podium.
– I am incredibly pleased and a little surprised. And so I’m extremely happy at Kenneth’s behalf. Victory number 100! He is extremely clever. It is quite ill after all he has been through, says the second best Norwegian man, Johann André Forfang.
Gangnes are now just one point behind the German Severin Freund in the World Cup standings. The two have respectively 205 and 204 points.
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The situation was particularly light after a single pass in the normal hill in Lillehammer Sunday: Norway lay with three jumpers the top four of the leaderboard ahead of the final round.
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Kenneth Gangnes led, Johann Forfang was number three and 24 years old Joachim Hauer – with a 22th place of the World Cup as his best placement was fourth.
On the second place, between the Norwegians, lay Slovenian Peter Prevc – with both silver and bronze from Sochi Olympics on CV -a.
– And then at home. Should it be today we win in Lillehammer? asked former hop star Anders Jacobsen in the commentator box to NRK.
He added up. The same has Anders Bardal, while Rune Velta has taken the World Cup break.
Still, it seems thus to grow more than good in Norwegian skiing: Yesterday was Kenneth Gangnes number two, only 0.1 points behind the German winner Severin Freund. Number three was Norwegian Andreas Stjernen.
New disking
At the same time Norwegian Dish meeting Saturday evening, after the full four jumpers were disqualified for using illegal jump suits. This year, checked suits both on top of the hill and the plain after a jump.
But yesterday’s experience despite: Sunday afternoon it happened again. This time it was Andreas Stjernen who “caught in the trap.”
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– He was controlled on top and could not “step-control,” said coach Alexander Stöckl NRK between the two halves of Lillehammer.
– Why is this happening after what we witnessed yesterday? he was then asked.
– We have been focusing on the dress work, but it seems that we still have something to work with. It is not all that is ‘on’.
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