Competitive skiing event in which contestants ski down a steep ramp that curves upward at the end, or
takeoff point. Skiers leap from the end, trying to cover as much horizontal distance in the air as possible. Ski jumping has been included in the Winter Olympics since the 1924 Games in Chamonix, France. Upon addition of a second, much bigger hill to the 1964 Olympics, the event was split, creating large-hill jumping and normal- (or small-) hill jumping. Competitions are held on carefully graded and prepared hills, classed according to the distance from the takeoff point that most skiers could travel and still land safely; most senior international events, including the Olympics, are contested at 120 and 90 m (393.7 and 295.275 ft—large hill and normal hill, respectively). Both individual and team ski-jump events are contested at the Winter Olympics. World championships for ski jumping began in 1925 under the governance of the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS), and a World Cup tour was established in 1980. Ski jumping is one of the few sports in which men and women compete in the same events; very few women actually participate in the sport, however, and no woman has ever competed at the Olympic Games in ski jumping.
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