Overview
- Many leading jumpers are skipping Zakopane, with Austria resting Daniel Tschofenig and Stefan Kraft and Japan sending Ryoyu Kobayashi and Ren Nikaido home ahead of Sapporo.
- Karl Geiger has not met the DSV norm and enters Zakopane after failing to reach any Tournee second rounds, including 45th in Bischofshofen and a season best of 23rd in Lillehammer.
- Only one individual competition is scheduled in Zakopane, with two more in Sapporo next week viewed as the final opportunities before nominations.
- Andreas Wellinger and Pius Paschke already hold the standard, with Wellinger’s coming from seventh place in a wind‑affected one‑run event in Ruka despite broader struggles this season.
- Philipp Raimund and Felix Hoffmann, Germany’s form jumpers with recent sixth and eighth‑place results, stay home to recover as reactions range from Markus Eisenbichler’s public encouragement to Eurosport analyst Gerd Siegmund’s stark warning of a near total loss.