Johann Andre Forfang takes a close victory in Nizhny Tagil overcoming Piotr Zyla by just 0.2 points.
Ryoyu Kobayashi, first after round 1, underperform in his second jump and loss two positions. The Japan jumper still leads in the overall world cup ranking with 100 points over Kamil Stoch and Zyla
For those of you who haven’t seen the fanfic video - here it is.
And also the link: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155843919830862&id=288803650861
Special thanks go to @the-rythm-of-heartbeats ♡♡. Thank u for sharing the link :) And of course the original story written by our one and only @prettyinpinkanyways. U go girl😉❤!!!
Da det blåste og var utrivelig vær i Pyeongchang, fikk Johann Forfang bilder fra vinteridyll i Tromsø. – Jeg forestilte meg OL på hjemmebane, sier TSK-hopperen.
Can we take a moment and appreciate how amazing Johann André Forfang is?
I mean, on his FIS page, it says:
“At a really early stage I found it all natural to think that I should be a ski jumper. But I was growing up north in Norway where the facilities to become a professional don’t exist. So the support from my parents was crucial, because we needed to travel far and a lot. Already early in my childhood this situation made the thought of moving to Trondheim all natural to me. When I was barely sixteen I moved from my parents to a small dorm room in Trondheim.”
And what a fantastic ski jumper he became! He won an individual silver medal in Pyeongchang and the team gold medal, he’s 5th in the World Cup--a mighty fine season, I’d say.
But he fought very hard to get there, he supported his hometown Tromsø for the Olympics ... And now he wants to make a ski jumping hill in Tromsø reality when it was only a dream for him as a kid. According to the article, Johann talked a lot with Walter Hofer last weekend in Lahti about a ski jumping hill in Tromsø and now Hofer is very positive about it and will come to Tromsø some time in spring. Johann is looking forward to showing him his town.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a ski jumping venue there and small kids being able to practice there, becoming professionals (and not having to move to a small dorm room in the south at an early age)?