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Schlierenzauer chasing Bardal

opprettet på: 14.03.2012 10:39 / km

The chase in the lion's den is also suffering from the difficult weather conditions. After there were already some problems during the first training round, the qualification on Wednesday hat to be cancelled.

Shohei Tochimoto

 

The new schedule for Thursday is as follows: There will be one training round at 2:30 pm CET, the qualification starts at 3:45 pm CET and the competition shall start at 5:00 pm CET.

 

Results 1st training round

 

Local hero Anders Bardal is wearing he yellow bib of the World Cup leader, and the Austrians Gregor Schlierenzauer and Andreas Kofler are right behind him. Will they defeat the 29-year-old on his home hill or can Bardal use the chance to extend his lead on his home ground? Right now Barda, who is jumping consistently and was already on the podium a dozen times this season, has the best chances. 84 points with four more individual competitions to go are a good lead, given his consistency.

 

Home ground advantage a the team's support

 

His Norwegian teammates also have high goals. They want to place between Bardal and two Austrians in order to help him extenting the lead.

 

The great season of Anders Bardal »

 

Especially Kofler was not able to achieve top results in the recent World Cup competitions. 16, 45, 19, 26 - these are his last results in the World Cup. If he will not show significant improvement he will have no chance to wear yellow at the end of the season.

 

Kofler lost ground recently

 

The chances for Schlierenzauer, who jumped stronger recently, are better. The last two World Cups will be held in Planica. Schlierenzauer is always among the favorites in ski flying, although his best individual result on a flying hill this season was a seventh place. That's unusual.

 

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But still the Austrians have of course not given up yet. Normally they are in the pole position - now it will be seen how they are doing when they are coming from behind on the Granasen-hill. In Lahti it seemed as if the yellob bib is an additional boost for Bardal in this long, exhausting season. The Norwegian, who's been in the shadow of his teammates for so long, won on large hills and on flying hills this season. An advantage for the man from Trondheim.

 

The Granasen-hill in Trondheim »

 

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