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The total domination of the Germans and the Austrians at the inauguration of the World Cup in ski jumping in Ruka must have some deeper background that we don't know about yet, said last World Cup winner Halvor Egner Granerud, for whom the competitions in Finland, as he described, were a disaster.more

The Polish national ski jumping team will compete in Lillehammer, Norway, this weekend with the same line-up as at the opening event in Ruka, Finland - the federation announced. Dawid Kubacki, Kamil Stoch, Piotr Zyla, Pawel Wasek and Aleksander Zniszczol will compete.more

Stefan Kraft won the Ski Jumping World Cup competition in Ruka, Finland. The Austrian also won on Saturday, the season opener. The best Pole, Piotr Zyla, took 21st place on Sunday.more

Austrian Stefan Kraft won the inaugural Ski Jumping World Cup competition in Ruka, Finland. The best of the Poles, Dawid Kubacki, finished 21st. Piotr Zyla, Aleksander Zniszczoł, Paweł Wąsek and Kamil Stoch were eliminated after the first round.more

Andreas Wellinger won the qualification for the inaugural ski jumping World Cup competition in Ruka, Finland. Piotr Żyła was 29th, Aleksander Zniszczoł 31st, Kamil Stoch 35th, Dawid Kubacki 39th, and Paweł Wąsek 46th.more

"The changes in the regulations concern, among others, body measurements, elements on the ski and in footwear, and their main goal is to improve safety," emphasized Agnieszka Baczkowska, a delegate of the International Ski Federation (FIS), who deals with, among others, checking equipment during jumping competitions.more

Czech Petr Cech, former goalkeeper of the English Premier League teams Arsenal and Chelsea London, who in the 2023/24 season is a hockey player of the Oxford City Stars team, playing in the British 3rd league, was loaned to the Belfast Giants team.more

Planica wants to organize the first simultaneous women's and men's ski flying world championships in 2028 - it was announced during the annual meeting of journalists dealing with skiing in Bad Mitterndorf Forum Nordicum, Austria.more

Czech Republic's Petr Cech, former goalkeeper for English Premier League football teams Arsenal and Chelsea London, will be on the ice again in the 2023/24 season. This time he has signed a contract with Oxford City Stars, a team playing in the British 3rd division.more

Last World Cup overall winner Halvor Egner Graneud started training on the hill in Lillehammer after returning from his holiday in Mauritius. Already in his first attempt he lost his balance in the air and fell on the landing hill. The Norwegian was taken to hospital.more

Dawid Kubacki, Kamil Stoch, Piotr Żyła, Paweł Wąsek, Aleksander Zniszczoł and Kacper Juroszek have been appointed to the ski jumping team for the European Games Krakow-Malopolska 2023. The Polish Ski Association also announced the women's team, with Austrian Harald Rodlauer as their new coach.more

The International Ski Federation has approved the 2023/24 World Cup calendar in ski jumping. The competition will start on 25 November in Ruka and end in Planica on 24 March 2024. The Polish Tour will be held for the first time at venues in Wisla, Szczyrk and Zakopane.more

The successful Norwegian ski jumper Robert Johansson has dropped out of the Norwegian A team for next season and cannot accept it. "After six years with the national team, I wasn't prepared to be sidelined," he admitted.more

"Dawid Kubacki has already started training together with the group" - the coach of the Polish ski jumping team Thomas Thurnbichler announced. The 33-year-old ended his World Cup starts prematurely in March due to his wife Marta's serious health problems.more

Olympic and world team champion Johann Andre Forfang has criticized the Norwegian Federation (NSF) for ski jumping being the only discipline in which athletes do not receive a fixed salary and their only income is bonuses from competitions.more

The news about the withdrawal of Lillehammer in the preliminary FIS calendar moved the Norwegian World Cup organizers, who announced that they would fight to the end to restore the hill to the cycle and save the format of the Raw Air tournament, played on four venues.more

Norwegian ski jumping World Cup winner Halvor Egner Granerud decided to go on holiday for the first time in four years. He will go to Mauritius where, he said, the goal will be to clear his brain and think about the future.more

Poles composed of Aleksander Zniszczoł, Paweł Wąsek, Kamil Stoch and Piotr Żyła took fourth place in the team competition of the Ski Flying World Cup in Planica, Slovenia. Austria won ahead of Slovenia and Norway.more

Piotr Żyła took third place in the individual competition of the Ski Flying World Cup in Planica. Kamil Stoch was 10th, Aleksander Zniszczol 14th, and Andrzej Stękała 40th. Austrian Stefan Kraft won ahead of Slovenian Anze Lanisk.more

Three Ski Flying World Cup competitions will be held in Planica from Friday to Sunday. Six Poles will start on the mammoth hill in Slovenia: Piotr Żyła, Kamil Stoch, Paweł Wąsek, Aleksander Zniszczoł, Andrzej Stękała and Jan Habdas.more

Jan Habdas reached 124m and finished 11th in the ski jumping World Cup competition in Lahti, Finland. Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi triumphed with 136.5m taking his 30th career victory and third of the season. Only one round was played, which was interrupted several times due to too strong winds.more

The penultimate weekend of the Ski Jumping World Cup will be held in Lahti. Today there will be a team competition, and tomorrow an individual competition. Six Poles will compete in Finland, led by Kamil Stoch, who has triumphed here three times.more

Kamil Stoch, Piotr Żyła, Paweł Wąsek, Aleksander Zniszczoł, Tomasz Pilch and Jan Habdas will represent Poland in the Ski Jumping World Cup in Lahti, the Polish Ski Association announced on Twitter.more

Words of support for Dawid Kubacki and his family are pouring in from all over the world. Doctors in the hospital in Nowy Targ are fighting for the life of a ski jumper's wife. Words of encouragement were sent by President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and FIS.more

Halvor Egner Granerud, who is sure of a triumph in the overall ski jumping World Cup, leads the payroll even more clearly. The Norwegian earned almost CHF 432,000 in performance bonuses this season.more