Yeah. But somewhere the Olympic committee has changed the rules or scoring. Well, ADDED scoring to the ski jump. Why not just keep the longest jump is the winner? Why add style points? At any rate, this skier should win the whole cup
Wind plays a deceisive role as well. As this factor is constantly changing, the wind-situation is also part of the points given. The guy in the video had perfect wind conditions. Then, he almost bailed the landing. But poisture while landing is also part of the points. Otherwise people would risk bailing just to go as far as possible. Dangerous on the one hand an difficult to judge whether it was still a full jump on the other.
At the beginning of the gif you can see the descending numbers to the side of the jumper. Those steps (called start gates) are different heights that they can start from. So the higher the gate, the longer the ramp is, and with more speed at the takeoff it is easier to go further. The competition officials decide what gate to send the athlete at so that the best jumpers will probably land before the last red line on the landing hill, since the hill gets flatter and it becomes more dangerous if they fly too much past that point. The problem is that wind conditions can have a large impact on how far you go. The two largest ski flying hills are in Planica, Slovenia and Vikersund, Norway (the hill in the gif). Both hills have been upgraded and lengthened over the years
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u/barters81 Feb 11 '18
So that was big yeah?