– Some of the rawest I’ve seen – VG

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Lindvik was in second place before the final round, but jumped past Ryoyu Kobayashi and won by 3.3 points.

– It’s completely raw. Marius’ last jump is one of the roughest I’ve seen. I’m so sick of it. It was exceptional and very deserved that he ended up with the gold then, says Halvor Egner Granerud to VG.

– To do what he does in the race here, which is one of the sickest jumping races I have seen, it is so big. It’s so huge. I have no idea what he’s made of. He is an ordinary boy who just lets it go, says national team manager Clas Brede Bråthen to VG.

National team coach Alexander Stöckl was very happy when the gold was secured.

– It was completely raw, especially the last jump to Lindvik. It was an almost perfect jump, he says to Discovery +.

– The level may never have been higher, and Lindvik distances the field, says former jumping week winner Anders Jacobsen on NRK’s ​​radio broadcast.

– It is so beautiful to watch, says Lindvik’s teammate, Johann André Forfang in TVNorge’s Olympic studio.

– It is very deserved. He has been very strong in all jumps here. He has won both qualifications and has been solid in all the jumps on the big hill. It is a fully deserved Olympic gold and it is completely raw that he delivers. I treat him very well, says Robert Johansson, who himself became number 32.

Norway has a proud history on the big slopes in the Olympic context, and is the nation with the most individual Olympic golds. The Olympic history on the big hill started with six straight Norwegian golds, and the seventh came when Toralf Engan won in Innsbruck in 1964.

But since Engan’s victory, things have not gone well for the Norwegian jumpers on the big hill. Lars Grini, Erik Johansen, Espen Bredesen, Lars Bystøl and Robert Johansson have since all won medals, and on Saturday came the long-awaited eighth gold.

Lindvik was in second place before the final round, and there he clinked with a jump of 140 meters. Thus, Ryoyu Kobayashi was dependent on a long jump to keep the lead, but 138 meters turned out to be too little and thus it was gold for Lindvik.

Lindvik won Friday’s qualification ahead of Halvor Egner Granerud, and the two Norwegians were also in Saturday’s race at the top.

It was harder for the other two Norwegians in the race. Daniel-André Tande and Robert Johansson were number 31 and 32 after the first round, and thus did not get to skip the second round.

As the fourth last jumper in the first round, Marius Lindvik jumped 140.5 meters and took the lead. However, he was overtaken by Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi – who won the race on the normal hill earlier in the championship – and was in second place before the second round, 2.2 points behind the Japanese.

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Halvor Egner Granerud was in ninth place after the first round and had the opportunity to jump up in the medal match. Granerud also delivered a good jump after the Norwegian coaching team made the decision to slow down.

– A stroke of genius, said Discovery + ‘expert commentator, Kjetil Strandbråten.

In a round with a number of long jumps, it was still not good enough to get involved in the medal match and Granerud had to see that he “only” climbed one place up and ended up in eighth place.

– It must have been one of the best ski jumps to watch. It feels quite special to jump two jumps so close to “hill size” and end up in a slightly staggering eighth place. I think we made a good competition for those at home today, and I think we needed that after what has happened earlier in the Olympics.

Lindvik also climbed one place up in the final round – which was good enough for him to take gold.

For the jumpers, there is now only one competition left in the Olympics. It is the team competition on a large hill, which is held on Monday, where Norway is the reigning Olympic champion after the gold four years ago.

The teams will compete with four jumpers. In addition to the four Norwegian jumpers who participated in Saturday’s competition, the reserve Robin Pedersen is also relevant for the team competition.

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