Olympia 2018: These ÖSV eagles start on the normal hill

Austria’s ski-jumping trainer Heinz Kuttin has announced his starters for the Olympic normal hill competition in South Korea on Wednesday evening after the training and “long discussion”.

In addition to world champion Stefan Kraft, who is in the top ten in the World Cup, Michael Hayböck, Gregor Schlierenzauer and Manuel Fettner were also nominated. Clemens Aigner will only be a spectator in the qualification on Thursday (13:30 CET).

Kuttin’s daily résumé turned out to be “actually very satisfactory”, because “it was especially for the boys a hard day after the long flight”. The challenge for the line-up was the fact that “there was a huge difference between the conditions of the day and the evening”, explained Kuttin, who especially used the training in the evening for this purpose,”because that’s also the time of the competition”.