Only eight teams took part in Lake Placid in the Competition of Mixed Teams. At night from Saturday to Sunday time Polish Our team again showed how weak it is.
A week ago in Willingen Polska was ninth in the rate of ten teams. From the last place, only the disqualification of one of the Finns saved us. Then not enteredLet's get to the second series. Now Polish and Poles were sure of the jumping machine in it. But it would probably be better if they could finish the competition this time after the first series. Better for us, viewers.
“We would be disgusted”? We are already
Bełtowska fields 85 meters and penultimate, 31st place. Anna Twardosz 98.5 meters I place 29. Aleksander Znamczoł 110 meters and 19. Note. Paweł Wąsek 12. After jump at 118 meters. Here is a set of results of the players of Marcin Bachleda and Thomas Thurnbichler in the first series. Together, these four accumulated 344.5 points IO 14.8 points ahead of the last Japan. The loss of Poland was much greater to the Finland before her – 34.6 points – than the advantage over this only worse team at that moment. Before the second series, you had to be afraid of what it would be, and not to mess your head to look up table.
If someone looked, he saw that the fifth United States is better than us by 53.4 points. And those who remembered the recent Thurnbichler declaration. – We certainly will not accept something like this at the world championships. We want to fight for a place in the best five, this is our goal – The coach of our male team Jakub Balcerski from Sport.pl spoke After the terrible performance of the Polish Miksta in Willingen.
– We would be disgusted. However, there is still some time for the world championships, we have a mixture in Lake Placid. We'll see – Marcin Bachleda said then. The coach of our women's team explicitly replied that we could not imagine such a fatal performance at the World Championships as the one in Willingen.
But I think we have to start imagining something like this. Lake Placid was another warning sign that it would not be good at the world championships. That he has no right to be good.
When at the beginning of the second series of fields Bełtowska fell on 88 meter, and Japanese Yuzuki Sato reached 101 meters, we went to the last place. At that moment, our 14.8 points advantage over Japan changed into 14.5 points of loss. What could we do when seeing this development of accidents? I think only bitterly remember.
Probably like many fanswe in the editorial office of Sport.pl, we remembered the last competition in which the Polish mix took the last place. Something like this happened once in history – in our debut on December 6, 2013 in Lillehammer. 11 years have passed, two months and two days and practically nothing has changed. Then Magdalena Pałasz and Joanna Szwab were the background for the best jumpers, and Maciej Kot and especially Kamil Stoch had a worse day. Now Bełtowska is the background for the best, even though on Friday in Lake Placid she scored her first World Cup points in her career (for the 28th place). Let's add Twardosz to this, which burns in teams, jumping with men (she took a really decent 20th and 19th place in Lake Placid), let's add those men who, of course, with our ladies are discipline stars, but have a rather not very star season, And we have a ready recipe for a disaster.
Before the complete disaster, Poland was saved by the fact that the Japanese had a 17-year-old Kikka Sakamoto, who was by far the worst player of the whole competition. Even after the second jump, the destroyed (117 m) we were still the last (5.7 points behind Japan), and after the second jump, Twardosz (103 m) we advanced, because the Japanese one obtained only 84 meters. Thanks to her huge problems, the Wąski competition ended for us only to calmly defend 31.7 points over the outsiders from Asia. He did it – he jumped 123 finally Poland took seventh, penultimate, place. We covered Japan with a difference of 34.1 points. We lost 47.8 points to the first team ahead of us – sixth in Finland's competition. From the fifth team of the USA we were worse about – attention of coach Thurnbichler! – 91.5 points.
Avoiding the last place, we saved ourselves from total compromise. But it's time for coaches to draw conclusions and stop to promote things, probably simply impossible to do. Thurnbichler said his said he wanted to fool reality. Or yourself. And the truth is that our mixed four shows weak jumps, average gusts. At 32 starting mustache had an individually tenth score, the destroyed was 18., Twardosz – 28, and Bełtowska – 31.
If it was to be better at the world championships, it is probably only for one reason – that it can not be worse.