Apoloniusz Tainer knows about the great form of Halvor Egner Granerud. The former coach of the Polish national team claims that currently only one jumper can take away the Golden Eagle from him. It’s about a Pole.
Halvor Egner Granerud is currently the top contender to win the 71st 4-Hills-Tournament. The Norwegian has won both previous competitions in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, placing him in the lead, ahead of second David Kubacki by as much as 27.3 points. Soon there will be competitions in Innsbruck that could be decisive for the final alignment of the general classification of the German-Austrian tournament.
Apollonius Tainer believes in victory over Graneruda
The legendary coach of the Polish ski jumping team noticed in Halvor Egner Granerud an awareness of perfect form, and at the same time self-confidence and complete ease while jumping. Apoloniusz Tainer claims that the Norwegian has a chance to win not only the 4-Hills-Tournament, but all four competitions. In his opinion, only David Kubatsky can prevent him from doing this.
- At the moment, only he is able to defeat the Norwegian in an equal fight. If David shows the same form in Innsbruck as he did at the pre-Christmas World Cup competitions, he can afford to win. However, in a normal sporting event, in which both show very good jumps until the end of the tournament, do not make serious mistakes and have similar weather conditions, Kubacka’s victory by a large points difference is unlikely. It will be impossible to compensate for these 26.8 points of Granerud’s advantage in this situation - the words of the coach are quoted by the portal sportsfakty.wp.pl.
General classification of TCS
Halvor Egner Granerud scored 616.6 points. On account of the second David Kubatsky 589.3 of them. They are immediately followed by Petr Zhyla, who, despite the worse position in Ga-Pa (11th place), retained third place with 576 points on his account.
Next to the catwalk Anze Lanisek. The Slovenian scored 564.7 points, but it is likely that he will present himself even better. Carl Geiger closes the top five with 558.3 points.
Source: Wprost
