Ski Jumping: A New Job with Poland
At the end of the season, Alexander Stoeckl was dismissed by the Norwegian Ski Jumping Association after many months of tensions between the coach and his athletes. Despite this bitter end, the coach’s experience and worldwide reputation allowed him to quickly find a new position.
From now on, the Austrian is under contract with the Polish team until the end of the 2025/2026 season. A new chapter that closes one of thirteen years. Inevitably, his last day at the helm of Norway was quite complicated: “After the session, it was difficult, I didn’t feel very well, I was at my lowest, exhausted. I hardly slept the following days,” says Alexander Stoeckl to the microphone of NRK.
But his departure was inevitable: “The situation had become uncomfortable with all the attention it brought. It was sometimes painful.” If the rapport with his group was not at its best, the coach never gave up: “What I did, I did with the best intentions possible. I always do my best to make my group succeed.”
Despite everything, Alexander Stoeckl admits he could have acted differently: “The direction I chose may not have been optimal for everyone. I did things that I thought were important, but they weren’t in the eyes of others.” Asked about the conflicts, the jumper Halvor Egner Granerund also acknowledges that another outcome could have been considered: “Like most things in life, everything could have been different. But now, I prefer to look to the future.”
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