ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) – Germany, who have won the last four world championships, failed to qualify for the inaugural Olympic ski jumping mixed team final on Monday after individual silver medallist Katharina Althaus was disqualified for an equipment breach.
Germany were hot favourites for the event, which involves two men and two women, but with only three scoring jumpers, they finished ninth of the 10 competing nations, with only eight advancing to the final later on Monday.
(Reporting by Mitch Phillips, editing by Ed Osmond)
