Karl Geiger is one of Germany’s best ski jumpers. At the Four Hills Tournament, German hopes rest on him year after year.
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Wait, hope, fear: Since Sven Hannawald, who triumphed more than twenty years ago, no German has won the Four Hills Tournament. What was missing? And is it getting better now?
Ztime to fly. time to marvel. Time for the wind to turn. When will the Golden Eagle finally come back to Germany? When will one of the German ski jumping artists finally manage to win the Four Hills Tournament again? The wait continues, now in its third decade. Sven Hannawald was the last German overall winner, in January 2002.
It doesn’t have to be the perfect triumph, four victories on four different hills. Grand Slam. Only Hannawald, Ryoyu Kobayashi and Kamil Stoch have managed to do that to date. Hannawald’s coup was twenty years and eleven months ago. 20 years of waiting, hoping, fear. In a few days there will be the next chance to make the eternal dream of a German high-flyer come true. why is it so difficult What does it take to be the one who, after eight competition jumps in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, is ahead in the sum of all points?
