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The men’s ski jumping circus is stopping at its penultimate station of the season this weekend – in Lahti, Finland.
While Austria’s team is almost at its best, Dawid Kubacki, one of the outstanding athletes of the winter, is missing. The Pole recently broke off the Raw Air series and his season to help his dying wife Marta in the hospital.
Kubacki’s family fate has not left his sports colleagues untouched. “The reasons for Dawid’s early end of the season put everything in a different perspective,” says ÖSV men’s head coach Andreas Widholzl. “The sport takes a back seat and our thoughts are with him and a family.”
Last act before the big crystal ball
Austria’s men will start with Stefan Kraft, Clemens Aigner, Manuel Fettner, Daniel Tschofenig, Jan Hörl and the two Upper Austrians Michael Hayböck and Maximilian Steiner.
With Julia Mühlbacher and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, there are also two Upper Austrians in the women’s squad. There are also Sara Marita Kramer, Chiara Kreuzer and overall World Cup winner Eva Pinkelnig.
For the woman from Vorarlberg it is the last jumping competition before she holds the big crystal ball in her hands. “I have never jumped on the hill in Lahti. It’s about a cool degree and I just want to have fun,” says Pinkelnig.
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