GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN/RASCHAU, 2 January, 2013 – The New Year’s ski jumping event is concluded and the tour and its participants are resting today. So there is time for Peter Riedel GmbH to take a quick look back.
And this look back is completely positive! “We have experienced sport at the highest level in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,” company owner Peter Riedel sums up, “and personally, I am delighted that we were able to contribute a small part to it.” According to the competition, the SKI-LINE inrun and its additional features were applauded across-the-board by the specialists of the International Ski Federation, the national federations, and TV experts. Because the one characteristic which is not always a given at other ski jumps was achieved in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: absolute smoothness. “Especially the DSV coach Werner Schuster raved about the ‘highway’ the ski jumpers found,” Riedel says, “which is why the run-in speed was significantly higher than, for example, in Oberstdorf.” The new mill and the related structuring of the ice contributed their own part to the success of the product; the values and graphics provided by the new measurement system, which was developed by Peter Riedel GmbH, was also received with enthusiasm. “The New Year’s ski jumping event increasingly becomes an interactive experience for the TV viewer,” Riedel reckons.
And so, the only small drop of bitterness is the performance of the German ski jumpers, which was not outstanding. “What Anders Jacobsen and Gregor Schlierenzauer have shown was very impressive. But, as many others, I also hoped for Severin Freund, Richard Freitag and others.” It is a fact that the German Ski Federation resigned training days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in autumn 2012. “I am neither a coach nor a functionary,” Riedel clarifies, “but maybe the DSV will re-introduce this training course – also due to the current experiences.”
The company Peter Riedel looks ahead: In Chaux-Neuve, the combiners jump on a SKI-LINE inrun and the special jumpers in Trondheim. Not forgetting the first official ski jumping in Nizhny Tagil (Russia), and the continuously increasing capacity utilization of the K4 ski jump which brings forward the champions of tomorrow.“ And also, we already have in mind the New Year’s ski jumping event in 2014. We will present ourselves fit as a fiddle and state-of-the-art,” Peter Riedel promises.