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unusual facts about ski jump



Oberstdorf

The American Broadcasting Company's Wide World of Sports inadvertently featured Oberstdorf when Vinko Bogataj fell during the ski jump in 1970 and became "The Agony of Defeat".


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1956 Winter Olympics

Three of the venues for these games (the bobsleigh run, indoor arena, and ski jump) would serve as film location for the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

Eckerloch

In the 1920s the locals built the first ski jump on the Eckerloch, with the permission of the chamber of the prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode.

George William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

In the artificially-created Brandenburg Pond (German: Brandenburger Weiher), fed by the Steinach tributary, he installed a ski jump and organized naval battles with real ships.

Lysgårdsbakken

It included a successful attempt at a ski jump using an unoccupied rocket-powered British Leyland Mk V Mini.

Yakovlev Yak-141

From April 1991, various kinds of rolling take-off and run-on landings were performed on normal runways and also "ski-jump" ramps at the lift jet center at Saky.