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Stefan Kraft intouchable
Déjà le retour aux affaires pour les sauteurs avec ce long week-end à Lahti avec au programme deux concours individuels et un par équipes. Sur ce tremplin et ce magnifique stade de Lahti, véritable place forte du ski nordique, les sauteurs sont toujours ravis et motivés.
Ce soir Kraft ne dira pas le contraire. Avec des sensations retrouvées, l'Autrichien a sans doute pris beaucoup de plaisir en se posant à 124.5m avant de signer le plus beau saut du concours avec 131m sur son second passage.
Un saut qui lui offrira son 23e succès en carrière avec une avance importante, près de 14m, soit environ 7m, sur le Norvégien Halvor Egner Granerud, toujours aussi régulier.
Petite surprise pour la troisième place avec enfin le retour d'un Polonais, Piotr Zyla, sur le devant de la scène.
Concernant la lutte pour le globe de cristal, le leader du général Karl Geiger, 5e, prend quelques points supplémentaires par rapport à Ryoyu Kobayashi, 7e.
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Les réactions
Stefan Kraft (AUT):
"Every win is great, but during the 4-Hills-Tournament I said to myself that the next win will probably feel special because it was really tough. Today was a lot of fun and I try to enjoy the fact that I made so much progress in the past month.
I really enjoy jumping a lot again. Everything is always possible in team competitions, you can win or finish fifth, even if you didn't jump that bad. With a little bit of luck we can fight for the podium."
Halvor Egner Granerud (NOR):
"It's always fun to jump on this hill. I had two solid jumps today, they weren't perfect, but there was a lot of good energy in the jumps. With a good landing in the first round I would have been closer to Stefan, in the second round I was quite late at take-off.
If I had two really good jumps it would have been close, but Stefan was really good today. As long as there's the possibility I will try my best to get closer to the Top 2 in the overall World Cup and today was a good day.
Piotr Zyla (POL):
"My jumps were really good, so I'm happy right now. I also had a lot of fun today, especially in the second round and it's important for me to enjoy jumping.
It was a difficult season for us, we couldn't achieve what we wanted, but it right now it's going well for me, I'm happy about the good results and I'm hoping for more."
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