When that happens at the bottom of a ramp atop a 120-foot jump, well. As anyone who's ever skied knows, unexpected snow while traveling at a high rate of speed can tilt your skis in an unplanned direction. The reason why the skier in the video above, a fellow by the name of Vinko Bogataj of Slovenia, pinwheeled off the side of the jump is because the ramp was covered with snow, and he was trying to stop himself. Where to go from there? How about, back to the point. And embarrassing - not so much for me but for whoever said it." I heard that multiple times it was comical. Lindsey Van, current Olympian and staunch supporter of women's ski jumping, has had a biting response to that argument: “I’ve had people ask me had my uterus fallen out yet. It all started in the mixed team ski jumping event on Monday, February 7. Sports by Jim McKay saying the phrase the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.
It's also so dangerous that Olympic officials, in their sweet paternalistic wisdom, wouldn't allow women until this year because they were afraid (and this is not a joke) that " a woman’s reproductive organs could be damaged - even dislodged - by the cumulative impact of ski-jump landings." Primo Rogli is a former ski jumper-turned-professional cyclist.
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