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00:00The Holman Collins Ski Festival, it's unique.
00:08It's the cradle of Nordic skiing.
00:14Nordic combined has been born in this place.
00:22It's the most fantastic sport ever.
00:25This combination of being a wonderful jumper but a wonderful steer,
00:28it's these opposites attracting.
00:31No other discipline in winter sport has this.
00:34Holman Collins is like the ski mecca for Nordic skiing.
00:37It's a special place and art for everyone, I guess.
00:40It's a highlight for Nordic combined skiers.
00:43This cultural phenomenon is an utter privilege to be part of it.
00:48Everybody in the stadium, including the foreigners,
00:51want to be Norwegian that day.
00:58The Holman Collins Festival, full of cultural tradition going back over many, many years.
01:08When I come here, I feel really proud that we can be a part of Holman Collins.
01:11The Holman Collins Festival, full of cultural tradition going back over many, many years.
01:21When I come here, I feel really proud that we can be a part of Holman Collins.
01:24I think that's what I have done for this.
01:25The first time I go to Holman Collins is the most amazing thing.
01:27I think it's been a part of Holman Collins.
01:28I'm a part of the first time I feel like it's been a part of the first time I've come here,
01:29but it's been a part of the second time I feel like it's been a part of the first time.
01:32For over 100 years only the best of the best have competed here in fierce competition.
01:37Holmen Collins is of course always something special.
01:41It's just the chance of being here on Stemberg.
01:46It's something that's very unusual and it's always nice to be here.
01:51That's why I'm really excited about the competition today.
02:11The city of Oslo and the Oslo Fjord, it's a fantastic place to be.
02:15Wow.
02:22When you are on top, you feel it's something special.
02:25It's the home of the Nordic sport.
02:35The Holmkorn Ski Festival has been run since 1892 for 133 years.
02:41The history, you can feel it everywhere around,
02:44and this is also what the athletes cherish when they come to Holmkorn.
02:56This is an event that goes outside of winter sports.
02:59It's one of those centerpiece occasions.
03:02We are here in Norway, the beautiful nature,
03:05surrounded by party people, people that care about sports.
03:08We're united.
03:10I'm here with German people, Polish people, Swedish people.
03:13All together.
03:15And we are here because we love sports.
03:17And we love to be together.
03:19We love to be together.
03:20Hip hip.
03:21Hooray!
03:22This is also the birthplace of Nordic combined.
03:29For me, Nordic combined athletes are the kings of Nordic skiing.
03:32This combination of being a wonderful jumper but a wonderful skier,
03:38it's these opposites attracting.
03:41No other discipline in winter sport has this.
03:44We need a good balance in a lot of things.
03:51For the jumping part, we need a good mind, a good mental power,
03:55and good automatism.
03:57They have to focus really hard for the jumping part.
04:01When they're coming to the edge, it's 90 kilometers.
04:04It's 0.2 seconds.
04:06The movement from going up.
04:08So they need to be focused on what they are doing.
04:12Physically, you've got to be there.
04:14But mentally, you've got to be absolutely rock solid.
04:17And to deliver in that moment as well, that takes something.
04:21You don't deliver there, you can be the best skier in the world,
04:24but you're not competing for the podium.
04:30For the cross-country part, you need a lot of endurance.
04:35And when you have a good balance between that,
04:37then you're on a good way to be a good Nordic combined athlete.
04:42It can be long days.
04:43Mentally extremely demanding through the day
04:45because you have the cross-country that follows later on,
04:48the second part of the day.
04:50But also physically so demanding.
04:54In Hong Kong, we have two formats.
04:59We have Gunnersen.
05:02We make a hunting start.
05:03And then it's a hunting with the points from the jumping part.
05:06And then we're starting in the row after that.
05:08The best jumper has been starting first.
05:13The next format we have is the compact format.
05:16We have six seconds between number one and two.
05:20Six seconds between two and three.
05:21And then we go down a little bit with five seconds and four seconds.
05:24The last guy in the field is starting one minute and thirty-six behind.
05:28There's so many different qualities, I think, that a Nordic combined athlete has to have over other Nordic sport disciplines.
05:36There's so many different disciplines.
05:48Natalie Armbruster is the great talent from Germany at just 19 years.
05:52She's the favorite to win the overall glove.
05:55She's the favorite to win the overall glove.
05:56Alexander Kошler has started to win a play recently.
06:08We need more direction from the ball.
06:11When you're in the position, it's like!
06:19You can push my legs here!
06:20Yeah, you can push it.
06:29Jarl Magnus Rieber, the king of Nordic combined,
06:33competing for the very last time in Holmenkollen,
06:36the same place his career began.
06:41On a normal day, we wake up at six,
06:44we are travelling to the Vanjö,
06:46and then after that, they are warming up
06:49and stretching and make them ready for everything,
06:52and then you can show the rest of the world
06:54how we are jumping in a special hill.
06:58The ski jumping hill, the Holmenkollen Bakken,
07:01has been rebuilt a number of times.
07:03We go back to 1892.
07:07This is a model of the first ski jump here in Holmenkollen.
07:11It's kind of the birthplace of Nordic skiing as well.
07:15Good skiers came from Telemark, Tröndelag, etc.,
07:20to go here and compete.
07:24One of the first recorded ski jumps took place,
07:27and it all begins from there, really.
07:33All the important competition in the beginning
07:35has been held in Holmenkollen.
07:36So from 1892 to 1933,
07:39we had only Nordic combined competitions.
07:45The ski jump has been rebuilt 19 times.
07:51One of the important years are in 1952,
07:55to build this big ski jump for the Olympics.
07:58King Hawken of Norway comes to see the finals
08:08of the Olympic ski jump competition.
08:10And here goes Ostmann of Sweden.
08:12All you have to do is slide, glide,
08:25and stay on your feet if you can.
08:30This is the ski jump from 1982,
08:33standing for many years
08:35until we had the new world championship in 2011.
08:39Part of that was a massive rebuild.
08:44Walking around there,
08:45the first impression people often give you
08:47about the Holmenkollenbecken
08:48is it looks like a spaceship.
08:50It's a huge structure.
08:52Really, really imposing,
08:53but also at the time has that kind of old world charm
08:56to it as well.
08:57And it's unique in that sense.
08:59What they've done with that hill
09:00is they've managed to blend
09:02the old and the new together
09:04to create something absolutely wonderful.
09:07Welcome to the 2011 world championship
09:09in Nordicombine.
09:10Here in the wonderful Holmenkollen.
09:12And here comes German wunderkamp
09:15Eric Frenzel.
09:16Look at him go.
09:18I won my first world champion title.
09:20That was really amazing for me
09:22because I was at that time really young.
09:26Ladies and gentlemen,
09:27the winner and a new world champion
09:29representing Germany,
09:31Eric Frenzel.
09:36Every competition here,
09:37I won a medal.
09:38At the end it was four.
09:41The first time to be so big in the game
09:44here at the Holmenkollen
09:45was really amazing at that time for me.
09:56People are coming from all over the world
09:58to this special occasion.
09:59People are coming here because
10:01they want to see the event,
10:03to be a part of it.
10:04It's really popular.
10:05It's about 50,000 people around in the forest
10:08have a really big party.
10:12It's a social event as much as anything.
10:15You think of the families camping out
10:18in the forests for nine or ten days
10:20in sub-zero temperatures.
10:22I think it's the DNA of being involved
10:25in the winter sport in Norway.
10:30In the atmosphere,
10:31there's a lot of good people.
10:32It's very nice.
10:34And the whole Holmenkollen
10:36in its entirety is super.
10:38It's a good vibe.
10:50Yeah.
10:51One, two, three.
10:53One, two, three.
10:54Three, three.
10:59Holmenkollen Ski Festival is a world cup
11:01in Nordic combined, in cross country
11:04and ski jumping in the one weekend
11:05and then biathlon the weekend after.
11:07It's also called the second national holiday in Norway
11:10because it's so much of the Norwegian culture
11:12that is involved.
11:13We are imminent to the start of the competition round.
11:24It will be the first time that the Nordic combined women
11:27are jumping from a big jump.
11:29And we have been fighting for this for years
11:32and now finally this historical moment is coming.
11:35It's our first World Cup event in Big Hill.
11:40We have grown up here and not so far from Holmenkollen
11:43and to finally be able to jump in Kollen with the boys
11:46it's really nice for us to finally be able to be on the big stage.
11:50It's like a special place in our part
11:52and I've always dreamt about competing here
11:54or we have always dreamt about competing here
11:56and it just feels amazing.
11:58So, Jan Rune, I think the conditions at least
12:02from the feedback was very good.
12:10When it's nice weather, I think this is the prettiest hill
12:13at least I have ever dreamt in.
12:15Try to focus.
12:16You need to try to focus, not look at the view.
12:19With all the emotions that are going through your mind
12:21because however good you are out there
12:23there's a bit of nervous energy around there
12:25about what could happen.
12:26Be powerful, be ready.
12:28When you think a lot about Chi-Champing
12:31then you make too much mistakes.
12:33Push long, push long and...
12:36Yeah, fly.
12:37Yeah.
12:44Yeah, 12, 13, 14.
12:46You must hop from here or else.
12:47Yeah, I try to find a whistle.
12:49It's a showroom with hope.
12:51Yeah, I say that you are at the race.
12:53It's very, very important for the women that we are finally about to jump on the big hill.
12:57We show that we are able to jump here and that we can do as good as the boys.
13:02So it feels amazing and it also feels good to do this with all the girls in our lives.
13:07We show that we are able to jump here and that we can do as good as the boys.
13:09So it feels amazing and it also feels good to do this with all the girls in our last race of the season.
13:18The conditions continue to be very demanding here for everyone involved.
13:21It's a big one because we are here on sea level so the air has more pressure.
13:25You need a lot of speed in your jump so you have to go a little bit more aggressive.
13:32Today, the sun is out and a little bit headwind so we are, yeah, really can fly through the air.
13:39We have a good termic of the warm, warm air coming up from the city so it makes it a little bit more special.
13:46It's a big one because we are here on sea level so the air has more pressure.
13:49You need a lot of speed in your jump so you have to go a little bit more aggressive.
13:53Today, the sun is out and a little bit headwind so we are, yeah, really can fly through the air.
14:00We have a good termic of the warm, warm air coming up from the city so it makes it a little bit more special.
14:10The professionality of everything we do is increasing.
14:13Everyone sees that if you are going to be part of the podium, you have to be starting the top ten after the ski jumping.
14:20So, yeah, it's pushing itself all the time.
14:23And why are you so good?
14:25I guess it all comes to don't have any weaknesses.
14:30It's like you need a good sprint, you have to jump fast, you have to go fast alone and you, yeah, you need a total package that's on a very high level.
14:40When do you have it?
14:41I will say so.
14:46Jarl Magnus Rieber, the king of Nordic Combines, widely considered the greatest Nordic Combined athlete of all time.
14:56He brings the Nordic Combined on the next level, especially at the jumping hill.
15:02And he shows every athlete where's the end, where we have to go and where we have to work.
15:09And for me, it was really special to see what he can do.
15:14World champion and gold medalist.
15:19He has virtually every record in Nordic Combined.
15:28Over 80 World Cup victories, double figures in terms of World Championship medals, five overall Crystal Globes.
15:37It's hard to follow him because he has no weakness.
15:42If you think about that marriage of jumping and skiing, he has redefined what's possible in terms of combining those two elements better than anyone else in the history of the discipline.
15:54It was fun, didn't it?
16:00Now it's important to drink and eat and relax, try to optimize everything for the race and look over that you have everything under control and have a game plan as well.
16:14One of the privileges for you if you win a World Cup race is you get to go up those steps and have a private conference consultation with the king and the queen.
16:31The royal family has been here every year. They are coming, they know every detail of the sport and they are following it.
16:39It's an ode to Nordic skiing and all of its traditions.
16:43It's an ode to a solid sport.
17:02If you're happy with your jump, then because you're going to start thinking about what's going on, sometimes we only have 45 minutes or an hour between the end of a competition round and the day.
17:12of a competition round on a hill and then going out and getting ready when you've got
17:16to put all the preparation time in out in the tracks.
17:19The rest for the last race.
17:42For me the chaos of Nordic combined comes out most before you go out into the tracks because
17:54you're there.
17:55You've got to keep yourself in the right headspace.
18:01Then you've got the clamour of the crowd as well greeting you.
18:05The adrenaline shoots up at the same time.
18:08You speak to athletes beforehand those moments and they don't often remember a great deal
18:15about it because it all goes by so quickly and before you know you've got the starters
18:19gun and you're out in the tracks.
18:21We're on our way down here at the famous Holmenklen Nordic combined World Cup.
18:26One of the remaining rounds in the winter.
18:38Yeah, I give my best every time.
18:43It's also not so good for my voice but yeah, for us it's really important.
18:48To get the information you need, how much is the gap and that your tactic can go like you want.
18:56Come on!
18:57Come on!
18:58Come on!
18:59Come on!
19:00Come on!
19:01Come on!
19:02Come on!
19:03Come on!
19:04Come on!
19:05Come on!
19:06Come on!
19:07Come on!
19:08Come on!
19:09It's not coming!
19:10Come on!
19:11Around that bend, Reeper wants this.
19:13Oh!
19:14They're very close.
19:15We have a lot of cool battles.
19:16Me and Vincent have a lot of them.
19:17Fight to the river and…
19:18I have to go left and left, I have to go left and left, and I can't do anything.
19:48A dream coming true. A few years ago I struggled a lot here on the hill. To win now, it's really special.
19:55First German woman to win the Crystal Globe overall, Natalie Arborister. Amazing achievement.
20:02Hong Kong never disappoints.
20:07The man who is widely considered the greatest Nordic combiner of all time.
20:13In front of his own support, he finishes it here. Jarl Magnus Ribe's career is at an end.
20:19I didn't think I thought. I didn't think I thought.
20:23I could have gotten it. I think it's good.
20:31He's been like role model for us.
20:33And then we're in the team, and then he's suddenly been like a really good friend and supporter.
20:38And it's like, now he's finished, it's, yeah, go home and miss him a lot.
20:42It's been fun to be the king of Nordic combine for so many years.
20:54I will of course miss competing in Holmenkollen.
20:58This is the place where I grew up and my parents' house is straight behind the hill.
21:03So, yeah, I have a lot of good memories during the years.
21:09My first World Cup victory when I was young and, yeah, fantastic place.
21:15First place and the winner of the Women's Overall World Cup 2025, representing Germany, Natalie Apostol!
21:33It was so cool to finally jump here on the big hill.
21:50It couldn't be any better to come home with this trophy now from this famous place.
21:55I think we had a magical weekend here again.
22:00We had two historical moments.
22:02The one was the women jumping the big hill for the first time.
22:07And the second one was a new record, 146 meters.
22:11And it was not done by a ski jumper, it was done by a Nordic combined ski jumper.
22:16It was the most fantastic sport ever.
22:19Yeah, Hong Kong was fantastic.
22:22One last summary.
22:27Ski post, party hard.
22:46Wooo!
22:48WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO oczywiście
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