Wobei ich es da nicht so krass empfand, die Quali war da schlimmer (Chedal!). (Und das Whistler-Springen schlägt ja alles.) Aber ein zweiter Durchgang hätte da auch nix mehr gebracht an dem Tag, das wurde ja immer schlechter. Mit der Windregel, vermute ich mal, wäre Schlierenzauer noch aufs Podium gekommen, und Küttel nicht. Der war meines Wissens der einzige der Medaillengewinner, der deutlich früher gesprungen ist.
Try saying that to Kuettel. He was 6th in the normal hill just days before, and he is(was) always good especially during big championships. But it is always a problem if a big championship is decided on only 1 round basis - no matter who is a winner. Of course, this could be solved easily, but FIS has some other ideas...also, maybe Schlierenzauer had sidewinds in Liberec, how can you be sure that 'new rules' would recognize that?
In Oslo, for the first time this season, wind bonuses directly decided the winner. And guess what - better jumper lost because of them. Malysz said that he had severe sidewinds in first jump, but this was classified as frontwind. He jumped enormous 142.5m in trial round and he was dominant in all trainings, so it is pretty hard to believe that he had such great conditions(as it is said in official results) when he jumped 128.0m in first round and finished only 13th.
And when you look official results these bonuses from the first round were exactly the reason why he finished behind Ammann.
New Rules are unnecessary in probably 80% of competitions, otherwise we would had 10-15 cancellations during all past seasons. Holmenkollen was always pretty windy place - but since ski jumping was added to programme in 1933 - we had only 2 cancellations (1954,1994). Planica can also get very windy - but there we had only 4 cancellations from 54 competitions since new hill was built in 1969 (1972 skiflying WM - 2nd day, 1979 skiflying WM - 1st day, 1994 skiflying WM - 1st day, 2002 sunday competition). In Willingen competition was never cancelled since 1995, altough there were always problems. In last 2 seasons we had more than 40 competitions organized under 'old rules' - and only 1 cancellation.
And in those competitions where 'new rules' could be somewhat useful, they would only create even more confusion like shown in Holmenkollen. Also, even with new rules, it took 100 minutes to finish just one round in Lahti team competition. And I'm pretty sure that Holmenkollen competition could have been completed with the old rules as well. I really don't see the need why 70% of competitors must jump over K-point for competition to be considered exciting.
In Planica we would probably see another circus like in Oberstdorf, and this obscure rules will probably end up just like famous '191m' rule.