Simon Ammann - Four-Time Olympic Ski Jump Champion | Athlete Profiles
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- Опубликовано: 18 авг 2013
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In the first instalment of our Athlete Profiles series we meet up with Switzerland's 4 time Olympic ski jump champion Simon Ammann.
Simon; who is the holder of most individual gold medals in Olympic ski jumping talks us through his memories from the Nagano 1998, Salt Lake 2002 and Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.
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He is the best ski jumping ever! Besides the Olympics he has 23 career wins and 79 podiums. He is also 2010 ski flying World Champion. His personal best is 238.5m (Vikersund 2011)
Skijumping is simply unfair. I mean it only takes one olympic win in ski-jumping for people all around the world to believe "this guy is the best!" Even if they don't follow the skijumping world cup. Some of the greatest skijumpers ever were unlucky enough not to win a gold medal at any olympics... I'll give you a good example of Jani Soininen. He got his shape at the right time and managed to win a gold medal at Nagano in 1998 Olympic games. What did he achieve as a skijumper? Well, only just about 4 wins and 18 podiums in total - well, that is something, and you should definitely have respect for him, but as far as worldcup goes - he never won the crystal globe (he came 7th at highest in the overall standings at the end of 1994/1995 season). He was also a World Championship medalist. That is quite an achievement but in comparison with Janne Ahonen who managed to win 36 (!) times, and have over 100 podiums in world cup competitions it seems rather poor... Ahonen's greatest accomplishments are definitely the 4 hills tournaments which he won 5 times! That's the best result in history. It's also worth mentioning that Ahonen never managed to get an Olympic medal. Same story goes to Malysz and Schmitt. Malysz (39 wins, over 90 podiums in his career - undeniably one of the most talented skijumpers ever along with Ahonen) he won 3 silver medals and 1 bronze medal on the olympics, his greatest accomplishment would be World Championship (He was a world Champion 4 times, scored second once and third once (and 4 crystal globes which makes him the best next to the greatest Matti Nykannen). Schmitt (28 wins, 52 podiums) He was also a world champion...
My point is that it takes a lot of luck to be an olympic champion in skijumping, therefore I put overall world cup achievements on the first place of the most important things a skijumper must complete in their career.
With all due respect to Simon Amman - He is also a great skijumper. (21 career wins, over 70 podiums, a crystal globe collector and a world champion).
But that has nothing to do with ski jumping - it is always the same problem within any olympic discipline: also in alpine skiing for example, where very often underdogs no one has ever heard of win, while the famous ones loose out. Furthermore the olympics take place only all four year, so it always needs luck that you are healthy and in your best form then. Unfortunately the olympics seem to become every time more important (and more gigantic..).
But how much prestige it takes really depends also on the country you are from. I am from Switzerland and I dare say, that the olympics are mostly less prestigious than the World Cup. There are many winners of olympics in alpine skiing I couldn't remember at all (especially the ones from other countries), but the ones who win (or nearly win) the world cup at the end of the year are the ones I would know - never mind from which country they are. But alpine skiing is like our national sport, everyone watches it.
In the U.S. for example skiiers get only than famous when they win (or are about to win) the olympics. Take Lindsey Vonn for example who was in the beginning in Europe more famous than in her home country (even tough she had many wins on the world tour and wc titles), because Mancuso was more famous through her olympic gold.
Ski jumping on the other hand, in Switzerland no one really watched it before Simon's win in Salt Lake City, thats why his victory was so surprising to us and made him really famous at home.
Karin Bacher Stimmt schon aber alle Schweizer Skirennläufer haben eingefädelt! KHAKHA!!!
:) brings back good memories. nice guy!
legend
He just won twice in Kuusamo! Go Simi!!
I remember Salt lake and he was given the nickname Harry Potter. He should of embraced the nickname and jumped with it. Awesome jumper. Easy to root for.
Great ski jumper :)
Go for it Simi! :)
Woah
ski jumper, not ski jumping, sorry
Not so great... he has been lucky 4 times in his life. Both in SLC2002 and VAN2012 there were much better jumpers in the list
Diego Ruiz 4 gold medals... He stepped up when the lights were the brightest.
VAN2010
Hope you are as lucky as him in your life you Moron!