Ski jumping Ryoyu Kobayashi Gold medal "Concentration"
At that moment, the Japanese national teammates rushed to hug Kobayashi, who raised his sword and showed a guts pose
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It was the moment of the gold medal for the first time in 24 years for the Japanese jumpers since the 1998 Nagano Winter Games that everyone had been waiting for.
The 25-year-old Ryoyu Kobayashi brought Japan the first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Kobayashi focused only on flying his own jumps on the jumping platform where her wind direction changed rapidly.
(Sports News Department Reporter Yuri Numata
The "National Ski Jump Center" in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, which is adjacent to Beijing and about 180 kilometers away, is also nicknamed "Snow Ruyi" because its design resembles a ruyi stick .
It was newly constructed as the first ski jumping platform in China for the Beijing Olympics, but most of the landing points are covered with artificial snow.
The temperature on the night of February 6th, when the men's individual normal hill final was held, was about -14 degrees Celsius. It was so cold that my eyelashes would freeze if I stayed outside for 10 minutes.
In such a situation, how to adapt to the jumping platform that flies for the first time was a big point of the game.
Yukiya Sato of Japan national team
"There is no snow, the cold of artificial snow is really cold. It's the cold of competing for one or two even in the World Cup battle. In that respect, I feel that it is very difficult to improve the quality of the jump."
Furthermore, one of the major features of this jump stand is the "wind".
The windmill of the wind power generation facility is installed on the mountain about 2 km away from the jumping hill. It is said that it is operating under the theme of "shining the Olympics with the wind of Zhangjiakou ."
From the interview base in Zhangjiakou, you can see the windmills spinning every day.
A jumping platform where the "wind" affects the competition.
You can see the mysterious sight of a windmill on the mountain opposite.
Ryoyu Kobayashi's older brother, Junshiro Kobayashi, described competing on this jumping platform as a "wind game . "
The reason is that not only does the feeling of the wind change at the railroad crossing and landing points, but the wind direction and strength change rapidly in seconds.
In many cases, the wind conditions were completely different between the first and second times, and I thought that the ability to instantly grasp the wind conditions and jump according to them would greatly affect the results.
There was a big difference in the points shown for each player based on the wind direction and the position of the start gate, and it was a jumping platform that greatly influenced the "luck" of catching a good wind in your turn.
Ryoyu Kobayashi talked about his impression of the day he flew for the first time on this jumping hill.
Although there were many headwinds in the qualifying that favored the jump, most of the players jumped in the unfavorable tailwind in the first round of the final.
In this season's World Cup, Germany's Karl Geiger, who is the top overall player, could not extend the flight distance, and the leading players remained in the 90-meter range one after another.
Kobayashi said he had no hesitation in such difficult conditions
Ryoyu Kobayashi
"I was able to concentrate on my own performance, so I had a good image no matter what it was like."
As the word says, Ryoyu Kobayashi made a big jump of 104 meters and 50, approaching the hill size, which is considered dangerous if he flies any further even under difficult conditions due to the tailwind.
The second time, I put it together firmly at 99 meters 50 and got a gold medal with a jump that felt even more affordable.
Austrian Manuel Fettner, who won the silver medal, also praised the overwhelming power.
Manuel Fettner (Austria)
"I didn't think I could win because I had a difference of nearly 10 points the first time. He's a great jumper, so it's no wonder he's a gold medal."
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