Lisa Eder has had turbulent days. For the Salzburg ski jumper, it all started with a phone call that she hadn’t expected.
It almost sounds too crazy to be true. Ski jumper Lisa Eder, who was not considered in the Austrian Olympic team, received a call from head coach Harald Rodlauer a few days ago. The message: “You’re part of it!” Eder could hardly believe it, but didn’t know how to deal with her feelings. On the one hand, she regretted the loss of her teammate and friend Sara Marita Kramer, who had to miss out on competing at the Winter Games in Beijing due to a corona infection. A dream comes true for Lisa Eder On the other hand, the joy was of course huge. “It was always a lifelong dream,” she revealed to the “Krone”. On Wednesday she flew to the Middle Kingdom, on Thursday she arrived. And on Friday she jumped for the first time from the ultra-modern Olympic hill at the Snow Ruyi National Ski Jumping Center in Zhangjiakou, which is around 100 kilometers north-west of the capital. “It all happened so quickly, I couldn’t believe it,” she said after her first training jump, which worked out well and she – like the second later – was to take eleventh place She showed top performance not only in the last women’s training course in Eisenerz, where she was often the second best Austrian behind Kramer. Eder is in eleventh position in the overall World Cup – that should be enough of a quality feature. She also doesn’t intend to stress herself out unnecessarily. “If I can make jumps like I want, it looks pretty good.” “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” she says about the ski jump, which was designed in a futuristic way. “I felt a bit like I was on another planet. It’s unbelievable what has been built here.” However, Eder had already experienced a real moment of shock. “My PCR test didn’t go as expected,” she revealed. As a result, she initially had to stay in her room and take more tests. The all-clear came on Friday. It’s just crazy days for Eder…
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