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Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards was the 1st Olympic ski jumper for England in 52 years. He had no money, no coach, no team and only learned to ski jump 18 months earlier. He wore 6 pairs of socks inside his second hand boots, a helmet given to him by the Italians, and used skis from the Austrian team.
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US ski jumper Anders Haugen finished 4th at the 1924 Olympics, when 50 years later a Norwegian historian discovered a scoring error was made and Haugen should have gotten the bronze medal, which was handed to him in Norway in 1974 by the daughter of the original bronze medal winner
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Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards - A Ski Jumper from the UK who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics. He had no prior training in Ski Jumping, and only managed to represent the UK because there were no other British Ski Jumpers with whom to compete for a place.
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The oldest Olympic medalist received his medal at age 83. His name was Anders Haugen and he was a ski-jumper. He competed in 1924, but because of a scoring error he did not receive his bronze medal until 1974, 50 years after he should have received it.
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In 2006 the town of Shimokawa with a population of less than 4000 had 4 ski jumpers compete in the Torino Olympic Games
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Vinko Bogataj, the ski jumper shown falling in the opening of ABC's Wide World of Sports, was invited to the show's twentieth anniversary banquet, where Muhammad Ali asked him for his autograph.
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Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai still active at the age of 44. He made his world cup debut in 1988 and has competed in 7 olympic games and over 500 world cup competitions.
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Water skiing was invented in 1922, but the inventor neglected to get a patent. He was also the world's first water ski jumper.
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the great Muhammad Ali asked the infamous Yugoslavian ski jumper, Vinko Bogataj (The Agony of Defeat crash guy) for an autograph at the Wide World of Sports 20th Anniversary Gala.
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Matti Nykänen, widely considered to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, was arrested on suspicion of attempted manslaughter of a family friend after losing a finger pulling competition
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The first known Ski Jumper was Major-General Olaf Rye of the Danish Army who launched himself 9.5 m in front of his soldiers.
