“The perfect ski jumper”: Kamil Stoch is an esthete of the skies.
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For years, Kamil Stoch has shaped ski jumping in his home country like no other. Now the Pole is facing his third overall victory in the Four Hills Tournament. The competition is becoming increasingly frustrated.
BWith so much class one can lose one’s composure. In any case, Halvor Egner Granerud did not have his nerves under control when Kamil Stoch struck. It was “terribly annoying to see Stoch win again,” grumbled Granerud immediately after the jump in Innsbruck. “It doesn’t jump that damn well, but it has good results.” Once again, because Stoch can be relied on.
Above all, the Four Hills Tournament, this stressful event within a good week, is his thing. The great ski jumper has shown his class here and won the tour twice already, in 2017 and 2018. In his first coup he did like Sven Hannawald. He won all four competitions in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen. Grand Slam. At that time Hannawald was the first to run up to Stoch in the outrun of the ski jump and bow graciously.
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