Ski jumping World Cup began

There are two topics that don't get blog readers: games and spectator sports. So here's another one of those.

Lillehammer

The Ski Jumping World Cup started off great for my favorite Domen Prevc. Last place in the first competition's qualifying (and only a week later I found out by chance that Domen fell!! When I did immediately think of that option. Yle had an interview with Domen after the Ruka qualifying, I wondered why, because he didn't win the qualifying or anything. Then they showed Domen's jump, and it was the fall from the previous weekend! Bad start to the season, luckily he wasn't injured). Disqualified in the second competition's qualifying.

 

picture: Effin' Birds (affiliate link)

 

Ruka

 

On Saturday, it would have been a bit of a bummer if it had been Friday's game night, when the start and end of the ski jumping competition were postponed.

And then on Sunday, my other favorite Andreas Wellinger went on to win the one round race. And it was also such a shame that the Finns put the second and third places on the podium the wrong way around.

 

 

Domen made it to the competition, but not to the second round after jumping a whopping 80 meters. Yeah, I guess you could say something must have gone wrong?

Poland

Domen didn't make it to Saturday's competition again. He's doing well.

Domen made it to Sunday's competition, and I celebrated that. There surely was a reason for that. Namely, Domen was disqualified in the first round. He wouldn't have made it to the second round anyway.

The season couldn't have started much worse for him. If I feel bad, then what about Domen? He said on social media that "it is time to get things sorted out", does that mean he won't be in the next competition?

 

Well yeah. Here's the "problem": Wellinger's last season went really well. But the better he did, the less interested I was. Aren't I a glory hunter after all? It's been a long time since Domen has been my number one favorite in ski jumping instead of Wellinger.

Viaplay always disappoints

Viaplay has been even worse than before. They don't bother to show the qualifying at all, not even online. I guess they think that no one in Finland is interested in ski jumping.

It's nice to pay Viaplay big money for ski jumping, and then they don't even bother to show the ski jumping. Really damn fair.