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WOMENS SKI JUMPING USA NEWS | ||||
L-R: Anette Sagen, Juliane Seyfahrt, Line Jahr, Izumi Yamada, Lindsey Van, Ulrike Graessler.
Six women, five countries AGAIN!
After one official training jump yesterday the jury decided to cancel things due to changing winds.
One of the Norwegian girls, Linda Johanson, and Italian Lisa Demetz, both flipped over when a little
air got on top of their skis over the knoll. Neither was badly hurt, although Linda was a bit too
sore to compete today.
Today was a long one. We had a training jump before the boys comp, then a long break before starting
the trial round at 2:30pm. A couple exciting things going on today. After the trial round Lindsey
came running across the parking lot saying she needed help. The two front screws on one of her
bindings had both ripped completely out. When we took the cover off to expose the screws they were
just laying on their side completely out of the holes. So I attempted to fix them for about
10 minutes, and when I was almost certain that they would hold, the ladies headed back up for the comp.
The first comp round had a little less wind but still had a little excitement. Juliane of GER had a
great jump of 98 meters to lead of the heavy hitters, she would lead after the first round. Lindsey
also had a good jump of 97 meters but this time her binding pulled out upon landing and her foot slid
sideways and she fell in the curve. This left her in 13th place, and scrambling for a quick,
mid-round, fix again. Jessica, Abby and Alissa all had jumps of 90.5, 89.5, and 90 meters
respectively, putting them all in the top 11 and close enough in points to threaten for the top 6.
The 2nd round started with Lindsey making it to the top on time. She had a really good jump of 99 meters,
but not such a great landing due to the fact that she wanted to stand this jump and not rip the binding
out a 3rd time. She sat atop the leader board for a long time. Abby had another jump around the
K-point, 90.5, Jessica who was in 6th place showed a decent distance but came up short of those other
around her at 93 meters. Alissa had a really good jump while sitting in 9th place but backed out a bit
too much and landed hard at 93.5 meters, crashing and hitting her head a little harder than she had hoped.
Had she stuck with it she could have been one of the longest jumps, if not the longest, of the round.
The team is a little worse for wear this evening but they are still in good shape for the last event of
the season on Wednesday night.
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