Johannes Vetter tapped his forehead worryingly.

The gold favorite in javelin throwing is unsettled before the Olympic final in Tokyo.

"It's been quite a lot up here since the last two or three weeks, we have to get that under control by Saturday," said the Offenburg powerhouse after his bumpy qualification and granted conclusions about the huge expectations.

"I have to see how it develops over the course of the days, the tension will be even more on Saturday," he said on ARD.

Before the medal fight on Saturday (1:00 p.m. CEST in the FAZ live ticker for the Olympics, on ZDF and on Eurosport) he had to “do some mental work again”.

Cousin is the dominator with the spear.

The Olympic fourth in 2016 clearly leads the world best of the year with 96.29 meters.

The native of Dresden traveled to Japan with the impressive series of 19 victories in a row.

The third place in the 2019 World Cup also exceeded the 90-meter mark seven times in a row between the end of April and the end of June.

Even if he last struggled with the inrun surface at the meetings in Gateshead and Thum - gold only goes through Vetter, right ?!

“What am I supposed to be restless now?

"Since the competitions before the Olympics there has been a bit of a worm in there, what does the worm mean, I can't get the right timing, the right rhythm to say that everything fits together and then it hits the front," said Vetter in the catacombs of the arena.

For the finals, "something must definitely come."

The 28-year-old secured the direct ticket for the medal fight on Wednesday only with 85.64 meters in his third and last attempt.

It was a "rhythm story" with him, explained Vetter and was dissatisfied.

“What am I supposed to be restless now?

It is the way it is, ”he said.

"Big Q, that was what counted and I made it."

At least Vetter had the second best distance in the end.

With the first attempt over 84.41 meters, Julian Weber from Mainz also made it straight to the final.

Bernhard Seifert from Potsdam, however, retired with 68.30 meters without a chance.

Cousin in Röhler's footsteps

The focus is on Vetter.

He had to answer questions about the print before his gold project in Tokyo.

"I would do well to concentrate on myself, I've always done well with it," said Vetter of his competition.

“I know exactly what I can do and what I'm capable of.” It is up to him to decide how much pressure he allows “and how much I generally let in from the outside”.

Five years after the gold coup of injured Thomas Röhler from Jena, the public expects nothing less than the same from Vetter.

Of course, he doesn't want to make a course correction, it was just the qualification.

"Of course, that's what I'm here for," he said of the planned ascent to Olympus.

With his home coach Boris Obergföll, formerly Boris Henry, and sports psychologist Hans-Dieter Hermann, Vetter wants to successfully readjust by the final.

“Hitting the credit point on that day is the difficult thing,” said the national coach.

Obergföll knows what he's talking about.

He not only helped his cousin, but also his future wife Christina (2013) and Matthias de Zordo (2011) to world championship titles.

Vetter wants to become the fourth German men's Olympic champion in this discipline after Gerhard Stöck in 1936 in Berlin, Klaus Wolfermann in 1972 in Munich in 1972 and Röhler in 2016. The big Q and the big V should become the big G (old) on Saturday.