Anders Jacobsen second win in a row at the 61st 4 Hills Tournament

Jan 1, 2013
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Anders Jacobsen second win in a row at the 61st 4 Hills Tournament

What an amazing story is turning out to be, the one which is currently been written by Anders Jacobsen.

The 27 year old from Hønefoss, who decided to retire after the 2010/2011season, has overturned this thought and got back to competitions in February of the past season for the NM championships, showing off already he was back for good, and with of course amazing results for him.

Anders Jacobsen celebrate in Oberstdorf Photo by Kathrin Müller © Skijumpingitaly.

This has to be the season for his come back, but once national head coach Alexander Stöckl announced the team that would have made it for the upcoming winter season, Anders name wasn’t on the list, but on the B team instead. But it couldn’t take any longer since he would have make it into the national team, adding to an already strong Norway side more quality. So he made his come back into the WC elite, and what he has shown so far is all but bad results. In fact Jacobsen is the current leader of the 4 Hills Tournament (tourneè he has won already back in 2006/2007 season). The pressure might be high for Jacobsen but he seems to be enjoying his jumps much more than ever, before he retires in 2011.

Today in Garmisch.P might have started a bit tricky for Jacobsen which had an unstable first jump with “only” 131 meters, but the Norwegian has managed to develop a great second jump (143), jumping only half meter away by Simon Ammann record of the hill (which is set at 143.5) Jacobsen is now the favourite for this year 4HT, leaving Gregor Schlierenzauer and the whole Austrian team with a bad after taste. (From my own point of view, sometimes always trying be the best only make you worse or in this case the loser). What Mr. Stöckl has brought to this Norwegian team is fresh pure air, which has already done the world, starting from his first season in charge last year with another Anders (Bardal) been crowned World Cup winner in Planica. Today Norway has placed three ski jumpers in the top 5 (Jacobsen winner, Bardal third place and Tom Hilde 4th and Man of the Day) I’m not surprised at all, that Norwegian Ski Federation, has renew his contract and prolonged until 2015. For a better and full report, later on. [@KokkaMufc]