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Uproar over the sad awards in womens ski jumping

The non-existent prizes in women’s ski jumping confused and bewildered in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The considerable differences between the prizes of the men’s and women’s Ski Jumping World Cup competitions are telling in Norway. The differences were starkly highlighted this week when the men and women jumped the World Cup events from the same hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Germany won the Women’s World Cup qualifier on Monday Selina Freitag received bathroom accessories as a prize.

Austrian Jan Hörl was first in the jumping men’s qualification the very next day and claimed the prize money of 3,200 euros.

– I don’t want to complain about this, but you can see what the differences are, Freitag commented to the German channel ARD.

Norway, one of the top jumpers in the Women’s World Cup Eirin Maria Kvandal was, like Freitag, sorry for the big differences in prizes.

– The situation is a pity and a pity, but I hope that we are going in a better direction, Kvandal said to NRK.

Another Norwegian athlete was on the same lines Anna Ödine Ström.

– Sad differences. If we have to choose either shampoo or prize money, I think we will choose the prize money, commented Ström.

Sports director of the German hill team Horst Hüttel resented the situation. Hüttel stated that it would be more reasonable not to award women’s prizes than to reward the world’s best ski jumpers with towels and shampoo.

The lifts in Garmisch-Partenkirchen played tricks

On the men’s hill week, it has been talked about how embarrassing drama was experienced in the hill training in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Several athletes got stuck in the elevators that took the jumpers to the top of the hill.

– There is always something wrong with the elevators here. This should not happen, Norwegian national team member Marius Lindvik commented to NRK.

There were indeed similar lift problems already a year ago during the jump week. The athletes had to climb the last steps under their own power to jump from the hill.

Norwegian golden eagle Johann Andre Forfang already had time to wonder if there had been an earthquake, because the elevator shook violently.

– I didn’t feel completely safe. We stood in the elevator like herrings in a barrel, we just had to hope for the best, Forfang described the events.

Forfang said that he was afraid of falling from the elevator in the middle of the trip.

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