Our 16th medal
Johannes Lamparter is well on course for a medal
What a guy! Johannes Lamparter has won Olympic silver in the individual large hill event in the Nordic combined, just as he did on the normal hill. The ÖOC team now has a total of 16 medals (5/8/3).
The 24-year-old Tyrolean, who started the 10 km cross-country race in second place after the ski jumping, was beaten by 5.9 seconds by Norway's Jens Luraas Oftebro on Tuesday after an attack on the final climb. Oftebro is now a double Olympic champion in Italy. Bronze went to Finland's Ilkka Herola (+14.8).
Even though Lamparter had gone into the race aiming for gold, he did not show any signs of disappointment. "I'm very satisfied. You work all summer to get your body and mind in shape. So it would be pointless to be upset about silver," the Tyrolean explained in an ORF TV interview. "I do think that the first (medal, note) was more emotional because it was simply my first Olympic medal. But you don't win medals every day, so I'm still very, very happy with the job I did today. I just have to take my hat off to the outstanding Oftebro at the moment, he is simply extremely strong."
Lightning start from Lamparter
As he had already announced after the jump, Lamparter started the race very quickly. After just 1.2 kilometers, the Austrian had already gained a 12.6-second lead over jump leader Ryota Yamamoto. The Japanese athlete had started the 10 km race with an eight-second lead over Lamparter. After the first quarter, he was 17.9 seconds ahead. Skoglund, Jens Luraas Oftebro, and Ilkka Herola picked up the pace and Lamparter was caught by the trio during the second lap.
Skoglund fell back slightly from the four-man leading group in the third lap, and the race developed into a three-way battle for the medals. However, Oftebro made a decisive breakaway on the penultimate climb before the finish, and Lamparter had no chance of winning gold in the last kilometer. Stefan Rettenegger finished eighth in the top ten. His brother Thomas came eleventh.
Lamparter: "Jens played with me"
Lamparter had not expected to be able to surprise Oftebro with his very fast start. "I knew that Jens was playing with me because he took advantage of the others to do the work at the front. Then he wanted to pass me immediately. But I still managed to keep up. I may not have ridden at 100% for the first two laps, but I was already on the move. That way, the group didn't get too big, and there were only three or four people." Lamparter commented on his interim results before Thursday's team sprint: "When you can hang a medal around your neck and it rattles because the medals are banging together, that's always a sign that you've been successful."
The Rettenegger brothers were not satisfied with their races. "I messed up on the jump. I knew before the race that nothing was going to work out there," said Stefan, who had to race alone the whole time. "It was strange, a race where you can't see anyone. But I was able to ski well, I was fast. It shows that something would have been possible today. I felt really good, my feet were fresh. But unfortunately, that's pretty irrelevant." He is now hoping for another chance with Lamparter in the team sprint, a place that will be hard to take away from him.
Oftentime, he only dreamed of a goldmedal. "
's brother Thomas knew even before the race that he had to risk everything. That's what I did. There were two outcomes: either I would finish at the front or I would blow up. Today, I blew up." And what did the newly crowned double Olympic champion say? He certainly hadn't expected to win two gold medals: "No. I dreamed of winning one gold medal, but to win two is fantastic. Even on the large hill, it's difficult to beat the Austrians."
Nordic combined, large hill/10 km cross-country:
1. Jens Luraas Oftebro (NOR) 24:45.0 min.
2. Johannes Lamparter (AUT) +5.9 sec.
3. Ilkka Herola (FIN) +14.8
4. Andreas Skoglund (NOR) +41.9
5. Eero Hirvonen (FIN) +46.5
6. Einar Luraas Oftebro (NOR) +49.3
Further (all AUT):
8. Stefan Rettenegger +1:09.7
11. Thomas Rettenegger +1:45.6
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