Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: DSV combiners fight against Norway for gold

Nordic World Ski Championships: The German combined athletes want to forget the individual and storm to gold as a team.

We accompany the competition in the live ticker.

• At the Nordic World Ski Championships, Germany has the next good chance of a gold medal.

• In the combined team competition, the German athletes fight against Norway for victory.

• We'll be in the live ticker from 10 a.m.

First report from February 27th:

Oberstdorf - The German combined athletes want to get their first medals in the team competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships * in Oberstdorf.

There's even gold in it on Sunday.

The foundation stone for ski jumping is laid at 10 a.m., before the decision is made on the trail at 3 p.m.

In the first individual on Friday, the DSV * stars went empty-handed.

The closest to it was Eric Frenzel *.

The DSV star missed bronze by five seconds, and instead the Norwegian dominator Jarl Magnus Riiber celebrated at the end.

Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: DSV combiners fight for gold in a team competition

“In the end the grains were simply missing, which is a bit of a shame,” said record world champion Frenzel, who, exactly ten years to the day after his first of seven World Championship gold medals in 2011 in Oslo, was another highlight of his big hill on the normal hill Missed career.

Frenzel was 5.9 seconds behind the exceptional Riiber.

Fabian Rießle *, team world champion with Frenzel in Seefeld in 2019, came in sixth (+16.8).

“We're a bit disappointed, but everything went a bit against us.

The opponents had respect and made the race difficult for us, ”said national coach Hermann Weinbuch.

“We have nothing to blame ourselves for, have tried everything.

That's annoying, but we have to put up with it like that, "said Rießle," but on Sunday we have a new chance. "Then the team competition for gold against arch rivals Norway.

Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: Rydzek is not nominated - Terence Weber takes over

The two Oberstdorf local heroes experienced a bitter disappointment: Vinzenz Geiger came in 14th, Johannes Rydzek, four-time Lahti World Champion in 2017, came in 28th, and that has consequences for the team competition.

Rydzek is replaced by Terence Weber and is not part of the German squad for the first time since 2013.

In 2015 and 2017, Germany won the world championship title.

Before that, however, there was a “curse” on the race: After the World Cup triumph in 1987 in Oberstdorf, with today's national coach Weinbuch, there were 14 World Cup relays in a row without a German victory.

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