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WOMENS SKI JUMPING USA NEWS | ||
On our way to Saalfelden for the competition this week we dropped Casey, Abby, and Elisabeth off
at the airport so our team was cut down to four girls for the last two competitions on the tour.
After dropping them off and getting into Austria, our sit-in coach, Fabian Ebenhoch, had to take
Alissa to the doctor because she was feeling very sick. We found out that she had mono and would not
be able to compete for the last two events. So within 2 days our team was cut from 6 girls to 3.
We had open training yesterday and that didn’t go so well for a lot of people. The inrun here is
very long, bumpy and flat, it felt like a little roller coaster. On top of having very little
speed. It has been snowing quite a bit over here, so there was a ton of snow on the knoll. This
hill that is usually a higher flying hill was now super low flying. There were very few jumps over
about 60 meters, but Jessica and Lindsey were two of the few making it over the knoll. So many girls
would come down just laughing because they were going so short, me being one of those girls.
But then today in the competition things got a little better, more girls were making it over
the knoll after they had had a few jumps to figure out how you had to fly on this hill.
There were only 30 girls competing here so there was no cut for the second round. After the
first round I was sitting in 12th place, Jessica was in 5th place and Lindsey was in 2nd place.
We all had alright second round jumps. Lindsey finished 2nd, Jessica in 4th, and I was in 11th.
It was a good competition. We only have one more over here, in Breitenberg, before we go home
for a little break. Then we'll be heading to Japan.
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