Austrian Andreas Kofler is very satisfied with his current shape. “It is of course not perfect at the moment, but there is always progress and no standstill. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but it always goes forward and there are no steps back”, he told ski-jumping.net yesterday. The 22-year-old admits that there is more pressure on him now after the very good last season with one silver and one gold medal at the Olympics in Torino and the seventh place in the overall World-Cup. “But that’s no problem because right now I know what works for me and what doesn’t. So I know what I have to do” he said. During the summer Kofler is planning to take part in all the Grand-Prix events but most likely he will not travel to Hakuba (JPN) in September because of the very long trip. This Saturday Kofler and other Austrian skijumpers like Andreas Widhölzl, Martin Koch and Andreas Goldberger attended the wedding of their teammate Wolfgang Loitzl in Bad Mitterndorf.
Sven Hannawald (GER), who announced his retirement last year, will get a "Farewell-Party" at a charity soccer match of the German skijumping national team early July in Oberkirchen (GER). The former World- and Olympic champion also invited some of his former opponents like e.g. Janne Ahonen and Adam Malysz to this event.