Big news for the ski jumping World Cup

opprettet på: 13.02.2013 11:39 / km

The World Cup season 2013/14 might not start in northern Finland or Norway for the world's best ski jumpers, but maybe in the German regions of Saxony or the Black Forest.

Sochi

Walter Hofer

FIS race director Walter Hofer surprised with his new ideas concerning the opening of the World Cup next winter in the course of the World Cup competition in Klingenthal:

"There's the idea of the FIS World Cup committee to start the season a week earlier next winter and to carry out this opening in central Europe. The dates for the events in Kuusamo (FIN) or Lillehammer (NOR), where the season opening took place in the previous years, would remain the same. Corresponding proposals were presented to the FIS. Among others also by the German organizers of Titisee-Neustadt and Klingenthal. The analysis of this winter's events will then be decisive about where we'll start. The ski jumping committee will present the final draft for the calendar to the FIS council after the spring meetings.", FIS race director Walter Hofer told Berkutschi.com.

Video-Interview with Walter Hofer

It's already clear that it wouldn't be possible to jump on natural snow late November neither in Titisee-Neustadt nor in Klingenthal. Both organizers would have to be prepared to carry out the first World Cup competitions of the Olympic winter on artificial or depot snow.

Sochi demonstrated it

As Sochi (RUS), host city of the Olympic Winter Games 2014, showed in December 2012, it's not a real problem anymore to have a World Cup competition under mild temperatures over zero degrees. It's rather a question of the preparation. In the case of Sochi, the organizers stored the snow of the winter 2011/12 over the summer in huge, covered snow depots. The hill was then covered with the snow of this depot under temperatures of over +10°C in December. It was a lot of effort, but it allowed a World Cup weekend for the ski jumpers under unusual temperatures but without problems.

Also the industry reacts to this trend: After cooling systems for the inrun track are already installed in most World Cup hills for years and provide fair and safe conditions under different weather conditions, the first company now also offers a cooling systems for the whole landing area.

Cooling system for landing area

The manufacturer of the cooling system promises a constant snow covering for training and competitions under temperatures of about +10°C, for a short term also +15°C. The cooling system will be permanently installed on the landing area. A 20 cm layer of depot- or artificial snow will serve as the foundation. This means that, with an appropriate preparation,ski jumping competitions can also be planned for late November in central Europe in the future.

01	Hoerl, J.	285.3
02	Paschke, P.	277.8
03	Tschofenig, D.	273.8
04	Kraft, S.	273.1
05	Deschwanden, G.	259.7
Sluttresultat »

01	Paschke, P.	180	0
02	Hoerl, J.	145	3
03	Tschofenig, D.	140	1
04	Kraft, S.	100	0
05	Ortner, M.	92	2
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01	Østerrike	717	0
02	Tyskland	513	0
03	Norge	406	0
04	Slovenia	196	0
05	Japan	135	0
Sluttresultat »

01	Schmid, K.	238.9
02	Freitag, S.	236.1
03	Eder, L.	231.7
04	Kvandal, E.	230.1
05	Midtskogen, I.	226.6
Sluttresultat »

01	Schmid, K.	180	1
02	Freitag, S.	140	1
03	Prevc, N.	124	2
04	Eder, L.	96	3
05	Stroem, A.	90	1
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