Norway's ski jumping men's team backs women's calls to jump from large hill as well as normal hill

Norway’s male ski jumpers called for the women to be granted the chance to jump from the same height as the men’s contestants. 22-year-old Norwegian jumper Silje Opseth told Discovery that she was jealous of the men who were able to use ‘the big beautiful hill’ in Beijing, and on Thursday her male colleagues gave their support to the proposal. Ad/> Currently, men use the normal hill and the large hill, with the women restricted to the normal hill.

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“I very much agree,” he said. “Just look at last weekend, and it was a very entertaining competition with girls who thumped over 150 metres. With the World Cup in Oberstdorf fresh in mind, it was also a very entertaining race.

I think we all feel they deserve Olympic competition on a large hill as well.” They were both backed up by men's national jumping team manager, Clas Brede Bråthen. /> !I am very proud of the girls for showing how good they are in extremely difficult weather conditions. In the international jumping community.