German coach Werner Schuster has backed Janne Ahonen to impress on his return to the World Cup this weekend.

The Finn, twice winner of the World Cup and the all-time leading points scorer in the season-long series, retired in 2008 but announced his return to competition in March.

Ahonen starts his comeback on home snow in Kuusamo as he targets a return to top form in time for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Schuster said. “For years he was the figurehead in ski jumping and had the greatest stability of all the top jumpers.

The men’s Ski Jumping Continental Cup events provided the occasion for the opening of the new ski jumping hills in Alpensia Resort near Pyeongchang (KOR) last weekend.

Ticket sales for the Korean ski jumping film “Take Off (Gukgadaepyo)” topped 5 million over the weekend, becoming the second most-watched local film among this year’s releases, the Korean Film Council said Monday and Yonhap News reported.