Competition

I have spent a little time racing in Europe in my day, and I always thought it was pretty competitive over there.  If you were a few percent behind, there were likely to be a lot of people between you and the winner on the result list. But apparently it's only gotten more competitive since then. By the looks of this photo, if you were just a couple seconds behind the winner, you got beat by a bunch of Schwarzwälder running fans, including some old geezers and little kids!  Fortunately, it looks like Lukas (127) was on the right end of things.

But what I really want to know is, did the race course go up or down the ski jump in the background at some point?