Vancouver Olympic Ski Jump Coverage (take 1)

Disregard this post: The Links posted below have been removed by NBC. Now there is only preview Ads for the London Olympics. You Tube type links are probably more enduring, though the subject of what can be posted or even linked to seem to be an issue - particularly when it comes to Video links
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I just spent some time at www.nbcolympics.com and found quite a bit of footage. Not that it is easy to find out of the box, but given some time it does come to you.

Here are some good ones: (Gregor Schlierenzauer hightight on Normal Hill - bronze medal - great second jump!)


Simon Ammann's second Jump (to Win) on the Normal Hill


Full US - NBC Feed from the Normal hill:

"What is the Normal Hill?" you ask. In other parlance it is the "small hill". It used to be the 70 meter hill, but now they measure jumps by how far you can go, not how far you need to go to get on the good landing area. The Normal Hill is important in that is the most important training size hill. Jumpers can go from 70 to 10x meters on this size hill and such a hill takes more technique and power than the "large" hill which is more about the air and flight-- 90 to 150 meters. Jumpers also compete on "flying" hills whcih will bring flights from 120 to 240 meters (not an Olympic Competition yet though they do discuss it I have heard).


There is more at www.nbcolympics.com about jumping
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Great news about Johnny Spilane's Silver Medal in Nordic Combined. News posts of the Austrian's questioning the Jumping Bindings of Amman (not sure what they are questioning?) -- they should question a $700,000 bus for the Austrian Team to drive around in if you ask me.

Check it out. Have a Fast connection. Figure out how to save some of this if you can.

best to all,