My personal sports year 2013 ended as it began - with the Nordic Combined World Cup in Schonach. As in january my trip started early in the morning last friday. This time I left at 4:00 a.m. because of a 4 hour car ride. The training at the hill started at 9 a.m. followed by the PCR and in the afternoon was the official training at the cross country stadium. 

This time we saw two individual competitions and not like in january  a team and an individual competition. The race about the "Schwarzwald-Pokal" was held on Saturday. We had great weather and we saw an exciting jumping round and after that an amazing race. As in the competitions before it was another great performance of team Norway with 4 athletes among the best 10.

Top 3 Saturday 21.12.2013:

1. Magnus Moan / NOR

2. Haavard Klemetsen / NOR

3. Akito Watabe / JPN

On sunday it was really windy. That's why the qualification was cancelled. The jumping round should have started as planned, but the wind didn't get better, so the jumping round was cancelled as well. So the PCR, which was held on friday, was used. Right before the race it started to rain heavily. That's why I decided to go back to the car after two rounds. So I missed the end of another exciting race.

Top 3 Sunday 22.12.2013:

1. Jason Lamy Chappuis / FRA

2. Johannes Rydzek / GER

3. Akito Watabe / JPN

The photos from Friday can already be found in the Nordic Combined section. The rest is coming soon!

Frohe Weihnachten! – Merry Christmas! – Joyeux Noël! – God Jul! – Hyvää Joulua! – Buon Natale! - Vesel božič! - Wesołych Świąt! - Veselé Vánoce! – Feliz Navidad! - and so on to all of you :)
Enjoy the holidays as much as you can and I hope you all got some nice presents. 

This year I got a fantastic pre-christmas gift: I just came back from a great trip to Schonach where a Nordic Combined competition took place. A little summary and photos will follow soon. :)