Mixed team competition
LIVE: Final jump decides medal
Austria's mixed ski jumping team, consisting of Lisa Eder, Jan Hörl, Julia Mühlbacher, and final jumper Stephan Embacher, failed to win a medal at the Olympic Games in Predazzo on Tuesday. The ÖOC quartet had to settle for fifth place, meaning that Austria failed to win a medal in any of the three normal hill competitions.
Slovenia took gold with a commanding 30.9 points ahead of Norway and 35.2 ahead of Japan. Austria ultimately fell 6.2 points short of bronze.
Domen Prevc is the last member of the Slovenian ski jumping dynasty to win an Olympic medal. His sister Nika and brothers Peter and Cene have also won Olympic medals. Nika Vodan was already part of the Slovenian mixed gold team in 2022, then still as Nika Kriznar. The Slovenians won gold with Vodan, Anze Lanisek, Nika, and Domen Prevc.
6.2 points behind bronze and "only" 10.5 behind silver. Austria was not that far off a medal position. The decision against the ÖOC team was made in the third series of the first round, when Julia Mühlbacher landed at only 89 meters.
Here are the results:
The best member of the red-white-red team was Jan Hörl with 102.5 and 103.5 meters. And he was ultimately the most satisfied member of the team. "I took another cool step forward, but we are fifth and only 1-2-3 counts. We're still a cool team. We're not finishing the small hill with the best feeling, but we're still having fun." Stephan Embacher also saw an improvement in himself. "They were rock-solid jumps. I'm really happy with the two jumps, I haven't shown that all week."
Eder, who narrowly missed out on a medal in the individual event on the normal hill, described her performance as "mediocre" on the day. "None of my jumps were really cool. I always ran out of steam at the bottom. I'm surprised that the Slovenians are suddenly so strong. They're just team jumpers."
Only briefly on course for silver
Austria was in second place after the first two jumps, but then fell out of medal contention for the rest of the competition after Mühlbacher's 89-meter jump. Slovenia, led by siblings Nika and Domen Prevc, on the other hand, celebrated a start-to-finish victory, staying on course for gold from the first to the eighth attempt.
Austria, on the other hand, came away empty-handed in the third of six ski jumping competitions. In the individual competitions on the small hill, Eder missed out on bronze by 4.5 points in fourth place, while Stephan Embacher was the best ÖOC athlete in seventh place in the men's competition. The next ski jumping competition is the men's competition on the large hill on Saturday.
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