#mixed sj

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Karl Geiger after his first jump in the mixed competition: From happy to complete confusion in mere seconds.

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We’ve been talking to Austria and Japan and we’re all really angry. The girls say they were jumping in the same suits from the individual competition where everything was alright. It’s incomprehensible. These are three top athletes. We talked to Katha and she said she’s been checked all over as never before and she felt as if they were looking for as long until they found something. She was in there for 20 minutes. Obviously rules need to be adhered to but if you take out 3 top athletes, maybe the FIS need to question themselves.

Normally Jukkara only does the control with the men and is not present when the women are controlled. Today he was present. Whether that was the decisive factor, I don’t know. But the fact stands that the girls all say they were using the same suit as before. This is scandalous. We have to accept this now but no one understands this. 

If the FIS were measuring a bit more loosely before (which I don’t believe) they can’t start being strict at a team event like this.

I think this was a specific problem with the women today and that they used a different procedure from usual. But if that’s true you have to question the whole process. The two race directors have to act now. There’s definitely a need for a conversation now.

-- Horst Hüttel, German team manager for ski jumping and nordic combined 

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Katha, Selina, Karl and Consti are starting in the mixed competition tomorrow!

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You know what's one of the worst things about today? That the women now have to go home on the back of this disastrous dsq drama. Like, the men from the teams where women were dsq surely are disappointed and angry too - and rightly so! But they get at least one, most of them two, more competitions. To have this as your last Olympic experience however is just so sad.

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Can we just talk about how lovely Team Norway are - and what brilliant work they are doing on social media? They posted that story about the women who got dsq in the middle of the competition when they were still in with a chance for a medal themselves and afterwards, with two of their own jumpers dsq and no medal in sight, still congratulated Slovenia, Russia and Canada on their medals. Sadly, I didn’t see anything like that from the DSV or Team Germany, no congratulating the winners, hardly any posts about ski jumping at all today. That doesn’t sit too well with me tbh...

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ZDF being unusually direct: 

Norbert König: “We’ll see the rest of the competition which has become rather a farce now.”

Toni Innauer: “Very interesting way of awarding medals.”

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A few more snippets of insight into the control procedure on Sunday

Aga Baczkowska apparently said all jumpers/Teams who were dsq had been given a warning before.

Mika Jukkara was present when several of the women were in the control cabin - but not when Katha was being checked. He didn’t actively intervene but was watching everything. It’s being assumed that Baczkowska and her colleague felt pressured by that to act differently than normal.

Anna Odine Stroem and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz reportedly said they were being asked to stand in a different position than usually.

Sources: https://www.sportschau.de/olympia/skispringen/skispringen-reaktionen-mixed-disqualifikation-huettel-althaus-100.html

https://www.skispringen.com/das-olympische-mixed-team-springen-ist-vor-allem-fuer-das-damen-skispringen-ein-fiasko/

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"Desaster": Langjähriger Skisprung-Materialkontrolleur kritisiert Nachfolger scharf

Der langjährige Skisprung-Materialkontrolleur Joseph Gratzer hat die Vorkommnisse beim olympischen Mixed-Wettbewerb verurteilt und seinen Nachfolger Mika Jukkara schwer kritisiert.

So now we have Sepp Gratzer criticising Mika Mika Jukkara, saying he isn’t the right man for the job at the moment, that he lacks tact. 

“It looks like to me as if he wanted to change everything over night. Our premise was always: The equipment control shouldn’t be in the foreground of a competition. It’s supposed to happen on the fringes, guaranteeing fairness and a level playing field. This obviously didn’t work in this case.”