Sentences with phrase «ski jumper»

This year, history will be made when women will be allowed to participate in ski jumping for the very first time!

Description Students are placed in the role of an Olympic ski jumper as he is getting ready to head down the slope.

It paid off because in 2014, she became the first woman to take part in ski jumping at an Olympic level.

And if you get bored, you can even experience flying 100 meters in the world famous ski jumping hill... inside the ski - simulator, that is.

That's the location of many international ski competitions including this year's ski jumping world cup.

You guys pay my salary (or more) for the next four years and I will dedicate my life to ski jump training.

If there's a wild - and - crazy attitude in any of the Nordic events, it probably arises most often in ski jumping.

They don't raise the youngsters here in The States to respect the art of ski jumping like they do overseas.

On the more feel good side of things is Eddie The Eagle starring Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Hugh Jackman about a British ski jumper who became an underdog sensation at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Women made history at the 2014 Winter Games with their first ski jumping event.

You will also visit Holmenkollen ski jump for an amazing view of the city and fjord.

When he fails to make the team for downhill skiing, Eddie sets his sights on ski jumping since he would be the only Brit competing for a place on the team.

However, in order to succeed Eddie is going to need a trainer, which is where Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman) comes in, a retired Olympic ski jumper who now is an alcoholic, picking up the slopes for the newest athletes.

The Olympics are coming up and today's daily dose of random Pyeongchang odds tackles the large hill ski jump teams.

Hamler, 19, and Hicks, 41, won 70 - meter titles at the national ski jumping championships in Ishpeming, Mich..

There are no rifles involved like biathlon, no break for thrilling ski jumping like in the combined event, and no ramps, moguls, or freestyle stunt work.

Sure, attempting to pay off a movie about Ski Jumping with Van Halen may be the least original idea in cinemas this year but it fits perfectly inside a movie whose heart pulses so rousingly with 80s - inspired synth.

German video game developer and publisher Kalypso Media has recently launched a much different updated version of its their winter sports title Ski Jumping Pro on iOS.

Adding to recent reports that rare wild wolves have been driven from their mountain habitat by pre-games construction, conservationists are dismayed at Olympic villages being constructed on once - pristine mountainsides and hundreds of trees being cut down to build ski jumps and a bobsled run — which, no offense to bobsledding, will probably sit unused and crumbling after the games.

Sporting accidents, especially crash landings while ski jumping, are frequently shown.

Together, Felder and Vettori — sometimes called the Ski Twins or even, collectively, «Feldori» on the World Cup tour because of their closeness — are Austria's best bets to pull in a gold medal at Calgary in either the 70 - or 90 - meter ski jumping event.

I realize I am probably a terrible human being for not liking this formulaic, feel - good family tale, based on the true story of unlikely British ski jumper Michael «Eddie» Edwards.

Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton star in a new biopic that follows the inspirational true story of Olympic ski jumper Eddie the Eagle.

A guide will take you around Oslo and up to Holmenkollen ski jump with amazing views of the city and fjord.

What would a Winter Olympics in Canada be without ski jumping controversy?

Taylor got involved in ski jumping as a young child through a summer camp at Canada Olympic Park after her mother signed her up.

How to watch ski jump at the Winter Olympics: A guide to understanding and appreciating the sport

The best female ski jumper in the world watches the Winter Olympics from her couch in Park City, Utah, with her dog, Yuki, a yellow Lab she named after the Japanese word for snow.

On the men's side, there is Kevin Bickner, who now holds the record for longest jump in U.S. ski jump history.

Taylor Henrich will always have her place in women's Olympic ski jumping history.

Also, he apparently started ski jumping when he was 9, so, no, it's too late for you to have Olympic aspirations.

How ski jumpers manage fear, why bronze medalists are happier than silver winners, and of course — the physics of curling!

Zakopane is often referred to as «the winder capital of Poland,» and you might catch international ski jumping competitions while there.

British actor Taron Egerton, who appears in this year's Eddie the Eagle film as British underdog ski jumper Michael «Eddie» Edwards, will play Robin and Bridge of Spies actress Eve Hewson will play Maid Marian.

With no time to waste and plenty to learn, Eddie heads to an Olympic training camp in Germany, where he meets former ski jumping champion Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman)-- now a washed - up alcoholic who drives a snow plow for a living — and asks for his help in order to qualify for Calgary.

As a company focused on community involvement and active lifestyle, we were inspired by Ski Jumping Canada president, Tom Reid (Aviva Canada) to become involved as sponsors.

Van doubts that the IOC will ever let women ski jumpers compete, even though IOC president Jacques Rogge said last week that their chances look good for 2014.

That's changed this decade, however, as women are now ski jumpers in the Olympics, too, with the 2018 Winter Olympics being the second go - around for women in this event.

Apparently Bovada has caught wind of the great ski jumping prospects moving up the ranks in Northern Europe... insider trading, perhaps?

The campy and sun bleached aesthetic works well - it is about competitive ski jumping after all - but the camera work is haphazard, leaping from one questionable choice to the next, stealing tricks and tones of other filmmakers without any of the finesse.

With the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary just around the corner, Eddie makes his way to Germany where he meets disgraced Olympic ski jumper Bronson Peary (Jackman).

I watched the Olympic ski jumping last night, and this thought just occured to me.

Felder, 25, is half of Austria's spectacular ski jumping duo, the other 50 % being 23 - year - old Ernst Vettori, Felder's childhood chum from the Tyrolean town of Absam, which lies just to the east of Innsbruck at the base of the mountain chain known as the Nordkette.

Ganzenhuber, who has never ski jumped, is captivated by the vicarious thrills he gets from his fly - boys.

Winter Carnival, Canton, N.Y. 22 Fourth Annual Masters Ski Jumping Invitation and Annual Washington Birthday Jump, men, Sno Birds, Lake Placid, N.Y. 28 - March 2 USEASA Junior Downhill, Slalom and Alpine Combined and Giant Slalom, Mt. Mansfield, Stowe, Vt. 28 - March 2 NCAA 4 - Way Championships, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.

Van, 25, has joined the fight for the right to be Olympians that ski jumpers began in 1998, last summer taking the battle as far as the Canadian courts, which declined to force the IOC to include them.

New York Times Magazine has a whole feature on women's ski jumping previously being prohibited but now being allowed, if you would like a deeper dive on the subject.

Ski jumpers???) need to at least reach a target with their jump.

Nita Englund has been America's finest ski jumper on the women's side since the previous Winter Olympics back in 2014, and she had two top - 10 finishes in 2017's Olympic test event.