At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, the team competition for female ski jumpers is on.
Here you can follow the event on Friday from 5.15 p.m. in the live ticker.
The Nordic World Ski Championships * will take place from February 23rd to March 7th in Oberstdorf, Bavaria.
On Friday evening from 5.15 p.m. the ski jumpers start in the team competition.
We accompany the discipline in the live ticker.
Will the DSV * team jump on the podium this time?
Oberstdorf - A number of decisions will also be made on the second day of the Nordic World Ski Championships.
After the combination of men, which takes place on Friday throughout the day, the DSV women want to get back on the podium in the team competition from 5.15 p.m., which was last achieved two years ago.
Nordic World Ski Championships: Ski jumping team competition in the live ticker - DSV women without Olympic champion Vogt
Germany even won the gold medal in Seefeld in 2019, the winning team at the time consisted of Katharina Althaus, Carina Vogt, Ramona Straub and Juliane Seyfarth.
After her poor performance in the individual World Cup, the Olympic champion Carina Vogt was deleted from the list for the team competition on Friday, she described her 30th place as a "debacle".
After serious knee injuries, the 29-year-old had worked hard for the World Cup.
Even before national coach Andreas Bauer announced the squad about the team jumping contest, the disappointed Vogt said that the competition on Friday was not relevant for her.
“I don't offer myself like that, I'm not supportive when I show such jumps.
It would also be difficult for me to deal with the pressure situation, ”said the disappointed but reflective athlete.
Nordic World Ski Championships: ski jumping team competition in the live ticker - two gold medal winners at the DSV
In the women's individual competition on Thursday, not only Vogt disappointed, but the entire DSV team.
Althaus landed as the best German in tenth place, her first round prevented a better placement.
After Vogt was dismantled, national coach Bauer relies on a quartet consisting of Anna Rupprecht, Juliane Seyfarth, Katharina Althaus and the 22-year-old Luisa Görlich.
So there are still two gold winners from two years ago.
The competition will show whether these can do something against the big competition.
The teams from Norway, Slovenia and Japan are equipped with star jumpers, some of whom made it onto a podium on Thursday.
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