The reasons for Peiers Bronze Coup News

After the Jump is a Jump before. That's why Killian Peier remained after his Bronze-Coup of the great world Cup ski jump is hardly time to celebrate. In the team jump, the 23-Year-old led his team 24 hours later to rank 7 and is one in this Form on Friday on the small hill again to the two favourites. Four reasons for his flight.

1. Stubbornly, in spite of steady low

were Weaker phases belong to the Athletes. When Romand, however, they made up almost his entire young career. Although he debuted with 17 years in the world Cup as a 17. strong – and was therefore seen as a promise for the future. Winter for Winter, but Peier showed up after that in the world Cup. He often failed already in the qualification, but at least almost always on the second passage.

Nevertheless, he kept his ambitions to want to be ski jumpers, even when he missed last season, the Olympic games, in the absence of the Form. The lack of success helped in this period the modest of competition: Swiss Ski was wanted to operate every glad, ski jumping more intense, so you could not give up a seemingly by fallen how Peier.

2. The big back to Think after the great crisis

Although so - or low blows usual, solved the of the games of 2018 from Miss in Peier a process. He said: do you Want to create the breakthrough but still, you have to get out of your comfort zone and professional act. This included that he began to be athletes living with a mental coach to Shine through – and relentlessly asked, what he can and what he needs to improve.

clarity in this process, that he began to keep a kind of diary. In addition to the jump analysis, he holds in it both good and bad thoughts. The bad, he then tries to repay, the good fascia. Peier they are highlighted in yellow in the book.

3. The separation from the demanding Ammann

Nearly seven Peier was when he saw Simon Ammann in 2002 to fly on TV double gold at the Games. It sparked in the young the desire to want to ski jumping. Now he seems to be the heir of Ammann and a large profiteer of its separation from the Team. Coach Ronny Hornschuh has more time to take care of Peier and the other boys.

The team-mates celebrate Peier after its Triumph. (Video: SRF)

The big question after Peiers medal will be, whether ski jumping discipline chief Berni Schödler can afford two Teams. Suddenly, the four-time Olympic champion seems to be in reserve. Peier is the future, and Ammann in this Constitution, with poor arguments, why you should make a own Coach. After all, The 37-year-old toggenburg was happy after the Bronze dearly about the success of Peier. Its progress could simplify Ammann's Release from the ski jumping, because of the Vaud continuity and positive impact could guarantee lines in the niche sport.

4. If it runs in the ski jumping, then really

The Sport of the plane is – even for the pilot – a stranger. Or how Peier says: "this is The miracle of ski jumping. It can go very quickly. I have worked in the preparation, after all, that it can happen." That Peier has jumped in a Flow that was on the world Cup-large hill, from the first day of practice at the obvious: He flew as from a casting, being careful not to shake or even to think about – no matter in what conditions. That he had achieved on the Bergisel ski jump earlier, with a ranking of 7 its best world Cup result, helped him to the world Cup. He returned to the place of a beautiful memory.

That he led for the first time in a major Competition after the first round, remained in the second cool, with this feeling of "Everything goes". "I said to myself: calm down, relax, enjoy it." As if ski jumping would be so easy.

W O W ! BRONZE! ????Killian Peier will Jump at the world Cup at the Bergisel in #Innsbruck third behind the German Markus Eisenbichler, Karl Geiger! Congratulations! #Swiss ski team #swissski jump team #Seefeld2019 #bronze #podium
— Swiss ski team (@Swiss ski team) 23. February 2019