After the emotions died down after yesterday's finale, I realized I feel more bitter than happy about this season. I'm obviously sad about the retirements (Kraftböck was my first ship ever, even if I didn’t know it back then!), and I hate the drama with cheating, but I think I'm mostly disappointed with my team, Poland. Being disapponted in PZN (our ski association) is nothing new, I always knew they weren’t the best and since Małysz joined them, my opinions about them are even worse. But right now, I feel deeply disappointed in our jumpers and that’s really sad and painful. I don’t like how they handled the situation with Thomas Thurnbichler. Obviously, I don’t have all the facts and insight into the team, but I feel like they weren’t fair in their cooperation. I think some of them acted like spoiled children who didn’t want to accept new methods and were convinced that they knew better. I think Thomas is a great coach, with great, innovative ideas. He loves Poland, he has a family in Kraków and he said his life is here. But I kinda wish he had never accepted the coach position, because I'm afraid that it set him back in his way to become better and it might make it harder for him to gain more respect of other coaches.
He behaved like a gentelman at the end, showing a class that some of our jumpers lack and I wish him all the best. I'm sad and ashamed that his journey in Poland ended like this. I hope other nations will notice and appreciate his potential, and that he will be happy again with his life.
