Three competitions were held this weekend in Sapporo, Japan.

Kaarel Nurmsalu became 35th, 30th and 27th. Illimar Pärn got rank 46, 50 and 54.

A very challenging weekend lay behind the estonian athletes. On Friday the NC World Cup started in France with a great but also unlucky 31st place for Kail Piho. After the jumping he was ranged 40th only 1:03min behind the leader. He also did a good cross-country race, but unfortunately lost the final sprint against Miroslav Dvorak and Mitja Oranic. On saturday Kail didn´t compete in cross country, because of the 54th place in ski jumpings, to save some power for the final day, where he finished 46th overall.

Karl Tiirmaa became 51st, 46th and 48th in Chaux Neuve.

The continental cup in Poland had to be cancelled due to strong snow fall and heavy wind.

Today the first Youth Olympics will be started in Innsbruck (AUT). The estonian hopes are 17 years old Rauno Loit for ski jumping and Kristjan Ilves, aged 16, for nordic combined.

Schedule:

FRI  13th  Jan    9:00   2nd Official Ski Jumping training

SAT 14th  Jan    9:00   2nd Official Nordic Combined training

                       11:20   Ski Jumping First Round

SUN 15th Jan    9:45    Competition round

                       11:00   10km Cross Country

Because of the difficult weather conditions the nordic combined world cup in Schonach, which was scheduled for this weekend has to be replaced by Oberstdorf.

Kail Piho and Karl Tiirmaa jumped in the PCR 92,5m and 100m to become 64th and 56th. In that way they will not jump in sundays individual competition.

Today the 60th Four Hills Tournament ended with Gregor Schlierenzauer as overall winner.

Unfortunately Kaarel Nurmsalu wasn´t able to play any roll during the four competitions. He didn´t reach even one of the Top 50 jumpings.

Han-Hendrik Piho competed sucessfully also at the second week in Park City.

On Tuesday he became 15th, after beeing 20th in jumping. And on wednesday Han-Hendrik became 42nd.

Overall he is 25th in the CoC ranking now.

Finally here are the latest results from nordic combined CoC in Park City and the ski jumping WC in Harrachov.

Han-Hendrik Piho became 28th on sunday and is now at rank 26 over all with 12 points.

The CoC seria continues an Tuesday and Wednesday again in Park City, because Lake Placid needed to be cancelled.

The ski jumping weekend ended a bit unlucky for Kaarel Nurmsalu, as he became 32nd in Harrachov on sunday and failed the 2nd round for only 2 ranks.

After one week break of Kaarel Nurmsalu at the World Cup, he joined the action again in Harrachov. On Thursday the qualification went very well, as he reached the 21st rank there. Unfortunately the individual competition on friday, which was also influenced by some wind changes, didn´t went that well and Kaarel became 46th.

Also the WC weekend for the estonian nordic combined athletes Karl Tiirmaa and Kail Piho started difficult. In yesterdays PCR, which is also used as qualification, Karl became 60th and Kail got rank 61st. So they both didn´t pass the qualification of the best 50 jumpers and will not compete in Ramsau.

Another sporty event takes place in Park City this weekend. Han-Hendrik Piho competed at the CoC yesterday and reached rank 22.