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With a historic win on the World Cup circuit this season, double Olympic champion Kamil Stoch is in peak form as he aims to defend his ski jumping titles at the Pyeongchang Games. Stoch won his second straight Four Hills tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria, on Jan. 6 to become only the second ski jumper in the long history of the sport to win all four stages of the prestigious event. Germany's Sven Hannawald is the only other ski jumper to achieve the feat, winning all four stages 16 years ago. Stoch also won the Four Hills in 2017 when he was first in just one of the four stages.The 30-year-old Pole won both the normal and large hill events at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, adding to his world title on the large hill a year before.When Stoch won double gold in Sochi, he became just the third man to do so. Matti Nykanen of Finland won both golds in 1988. Switzerland's Simon Ammann won two golds in 2002 and 2010.Here's some of what to know going into ski jumping at the Pyeongchang Games:Slovenia's Peter Prevc won silver on the normal hill and bronze on the large hill in Sochi. While he has struggled this year on the World Cup circuit he will be banking on experience that includes winning the 2016 World Cup and the 2016 Four Hills.Germany's Richard Freitag has three World Cup wins so far this season but fell during the Innsbruck stop of the Four Hills and suffered a hip injury that could jeopardize his Olympic medal hopes.Andreas Wellinger of Germany has been on the podium five times this season and will also be a strong medal contender.Daniel Andre Tande. The 23-year-old has three World Cup wins overall and has performed well this season with three podium finishes. The Norwegian finished second at the Innsbruck stage of the Four Hills and could be set for a breakthrough in Pyeongchang.Another jumper to keep an eye on in Pyeongchang will be ageless wonder Noriaki Kasai. Known as "Legend Kasai" in his native Japan, the 45-year-old will be competing in his eighth consecutive Olympics.Kasai would become the sole record-holder for most Winter Olympic appearances if he competes in Pyeongchang. He currently shares the record with Russian luger Albert Demchenko.Kasai made his Olympic debut at the 1992 Albertville Games in France, and has appeared at every event since. He has earned three medals, including team silver at Lillehammer in 1994, and silver for the large hill and team bronze at Sochi.He is the oldest Olympic ski jumping medalist and the oldest ski jumping World Cup individual event winner.ermany edged out Austria in the team event four years ago and the two ski jumping rivals should provide some fireworks again this year along with powerhouse Norway.The ski jumping competition will take place at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre, which is located in the Pyeongchang Mountain Cluster.

The first Winter Olympics ever held in South Korea will kick off in Pyeongchang on February 9, 2018. Spectators at the open-air Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium will likely brave extreme cold temps and bitter winds, but they're in for a treat. Both ticket holders and fans at home will catch a traditional ceremony, albeit with a few surprise twists. Here's everything you need to know about this year's opening rites:When does it start?You'll either want tune in on Friday, February 9, at 6 a.m. ET for the live performance that starts at 8 p.m. KST, or sleep in a little later and catch it during primetime coverage on NBC at 8 p.m ET. The entire show is expected to last about two hours, so settle in.If you want to get a jump on the action, competition is actually scheduled to start the day before. The first rounds of curling and ski jumping will take place on February 8.Where will it air?American viewers can catch the spectacle on the NBC channel, but that's not the only spot to watch. Where is held?Both the opening and closing ceremonies will take place in Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, which was specifically built for the elaborate performances to the tune of $58 million. The 35,000-person arena won't host any athletic events (or even stay standing after the games), but it's already attracting criticism for its design.The open roof — a choice made to save costs and speed construction — could expose competitors, world leaders, and fans to extreme cold. An internal organizing committee document predicted the potential real-feel temperature to be 7 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the coldest Olympics to date.A recent concert held in the venue led to six reported cases of hypothermia, so organizers are already planning stopgap measures to keep everyone warm, including distributing hot packs and blankets.What will Team USA wear?As the official outfitter, iconic American brand Ralph Lauren is charged with creating patriotic ensembles for the U.S. delegation. It's keeping them under tight wraps for now, but they have already unveiled the looks for the closing ceremony. Will Russian and North Korean athletes participate?Russia received plenty of sanctions for systematic doping during the Sochi Olympics, and some of them will be on full display during the opening ceremony. Approved Russian athletes will compete under the Olympic flag as the team "Olympic Athletes from Russia." The International Olympic Committee also placed restrictions on their uniforms, meaning the athletes will likely wear a subdued outfit featuring the Olympic rings.Given the breaking news that North Korea will participate in the games, specifics are still forthcoming. However, South Korean leaders did propose that the two countries march together under one flag like they did at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.The countries have walked separately at the 2010, 2012, and 2016 Olympics. North Korea did not compete in Sochi in 2014.The biggest event in winter sports is back as Great Britain aim to achieve their largest ever winter medals haul.

Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympic games, including when it is, where it is and how to watch it live in the UK.What are the Winter Olympics?The Winter Olympic Games is an international sporting competition held every four years for sports involving snow or ice. It was first held in 1924 in France.The last Winter Olympics took place in Sochi, Russia in 2014. The games included 98 events in 15 different winter sport disciplines. Great Britain won four medals, in curling, skeleton and women’s slopestyle.The Sochi 2014 Olympics were the most expensive in history, with costs more than three times that of London 2012.What sports are included?Winter Olympians will compete in the following sports: Curling, Ski Jumping, Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Women’s Hockey, Snowboarding, Speed Skating, Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Luge, Short Track, Skeleton, Bobsled, Men’s Hockey and Nordic Combined. Where is it being hosted?The city of Pyeongchang, 100 miles east of Seoul in South Korea, will stage the winter games. This is South Korea’s first time hosting the winter games, although it did host the summer Olympics in 1988.When and where is the opening ceremony?The opening ceremony takes place in Pyeonchang on Friday, February 9 at 8pm local time (11am GMT).Who are the biggest British hopes for the games?

Last Winter Olympics in 2014 proved a great haul for Great Britain, which equalled its best-ever haul of four medals in 1924.Great Britain will be looking to outperform this personal best with around 60 athletes taking part in the 2018 games.Notable British names to look out for are speedskater Elise Christie, who won three gold medals and one bronze at the 2017 World Championships.Lizzy Yarnold won the skeleton Winter Olympic Gold in 2014 and returns in good form to defend her title.Elsewhere, the Team GB Women’s curling team won bronze in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games and will be looking to up their game.North Korea will send an orchestra of 140 members to accompany its Olympic delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Games next month, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.This was part of a five-point agreement between South and North Korean officials at a four-a-side meeting on Monday held to discuss Pyongyang's proposal to send a cultural troupe to the Games.The two Koreas agreed that the North's Samjiyon Orchestra would perform in Seoul as well as the northern city of Gangneung where some of the Olympic Games will be held, according to the Unification Ministry.North Korean performers last staged a show in the South in 2002 when a group of 30 singers and dancers visited Seoul for a joint event, according to Yonhap.Whether the orchestra will be joined by the North's Moranbong Band "needed confirmation," according to the ministry.The all-female Moranbong Band was formed in 2012 under the orders of the North's leader Kim Jong Un. The group performs a mix of Western pop songs and state propaganda music.Its leader Hyon Song-wol attended the Monday meeting as Pyongyang's vice chief delegate.Further details on the cultural troupe will be settled through follow-up talks and the exchange of documents, according to a joint statement disclosed after the meeting.It also said Pyongyang would send a team in advance to arrange the details of the performances such as the venues and stage equipment.The meeting comes after the two Koreas last week held high-level talks for the first time in two years, agreeing to facilitate the North's participation in the Olympics.The North had agreed to send a delegation of athletes, officials, performers and reporters to the South.Seoul said it would accommodate their visit with necessary support.Later on Monday, the ministry confirmed the two sides would hold working-level talks on the North's Olympic participation on Wednesday 10 a.m.Pyongyang said it would send three officials to the Peace House located in the truce village of Panmunjom, led by Jon Jong-su, Vice Chairman of the Committee for Peaceful Reunification.

South Korea had earlier suggested holding the comprehensive discussion on Monday but the North proposed discussing details of its cultural delegation instead, Dong-A Ilbo reported.North Korea, over the weekend, threatened it could go back on its decision to take part in the Olympics, after South Korean leader Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Donald Trump with making inter-Korean dialogue possible."They should know that [the] train and bus carrying our delegation to the Olympics are still in Pyongyang... The South Korean authorities had better ponder over what unfavorable results may be entailed by their impolite behavior," the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency said on Sunday in its English report.The size of the North's delegation to Pyeongchang and the categories it can compete in are expected to be confirmed after an International Olympic Committee meeting on Saturday.The two Koreas will hold working-level discussions before the meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.Competitors launch themselves from the take-off ramp in an effort to fly as far as they can before making a touchdown in the landing zone. Five judges mark competitors for distance and style. The four events are: men's normal hill individual, women's normal hill individual, men's large hill individual and the men's team.The Winter Olympics in South Korea are just 30 days away and, for a change, there aren’t any major forecasts of doom and gloom emanating from the host country.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump have been bragging about their nuclear buttons, but the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics can hardly be held responsible for that. As far as the Games themselves go, they seem to have been the cause for a major diplomatic ice-breaker on the Korean peninsula, with the North talking to the South for the first time in years and agreeing to send a delegation to the Olympics.And the sport venues actually look ready for competition.Could it be that the 2018 Olympics really have landed in one of the best communities in the world? That’s what locals are pitching with their Happy 700 campaign. Pyeongchang — which lies 130 kilometres east of the capital Seoul, and just 80 kilometres south of the heavily militarized border between North and South Korea — sits at an average altitude of 700 metres above sea level. And 700 metres, states the local tourism brochure, is “the best altitude for human biorhythm.”There have been numerous references to this healthy altitude in recent years with Korean officials touting how optimal it is for human life, raising animals and growing crops. Plenty of companies have used the slogan to sell products.There was a time that living up a mountain, rather than in a valley, would have been advantageous for protecting villages. And 7 is considered a lucky number, so 700 is luckier than, say, 600 or 800, explains Thomas Klassen, a York University political science professor with a research interest in South Korea.“If you live at the 700 altitude the air pressure is just going to be perfect — it’s been around as a belief and the Olympic committee played up on it,” he says. “There’s no science to it.”If there was, there might be a Canadian exodus to Medicine Hat, Alta., or Ontario’s highest point, Ishpatina Ridge, some 90 kilometres north of Sudbury, both of which are about 700 metres about sea level.“Cool that they’re pumping up that they live at 700 metres — maybe there’s a placebo effect,” says Greg Wells, an exercise physiologist at the University of Toronto.Athletes in the skiing, snowboarding and sliding sports who come from low-lying areas might feel a slight difference for a few days, he says.“If you’re not from Calgary (which sits at over 1,000 metres) and you’re going there, the lower pressure of the air drives less oxygen into the body so it just takes a little while for your body to adapt and absorb the same amount of oxygen that it would at sea level,” Wells says. “Typically, that takes three to five days.“It’s a micro-factor for athletes. It’s not going to be anything like at high altitudes but it’s a one-per-cent factor and probably something that’s worth thinking about.”When a city is chosen to host the Olympics, the country's government usually shells out hundreds of millions to build extravagant venues for the athletes and fans.

The 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea will be no exception.The Korean central government has taken on half of the $62.6 million in costs for building a new stadium for the winter games' opening and closing ceremonies in Pyeongchang. The country has also spent more than $1.5 billion on the Alpensia ski resort, which will serve as a main Olympic venue. In total, the 2018 Winter Olympics will cost South Korea about $12.9 billion, nearly double the amount the country projected when it won the bid in 2011.While some of the minimalist venues appear to blend in with the snow, others, characterized by sweeping curved lines, look ultra-futuristic.Kamil Stoch became only the second ski jumper to win each of the Four Hills competitions in the same season.Stoch, the reigning Olympic champion from Poland, had won events in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, before securing victory in the first event in Austria at Innsbruck at the weekend.He joins Germany's Sven Hannawald, who won each event in 2002, as the only men to achieve the feat in the prestigious Four Hills tournament.The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea are right around the corner! That means it's time to watch sports you might not have seen in four years. To help you feel at least a little more informed—either to impress your friends or fake your way through a conversation with an actual expert—SI will be providing rookie's guides to each of the 15 sports. These will be published daily, Monday through Friday, from December 4-22.What Is ski jumping?Ski jumping is what it sounds like — jumping while on skis. Though it sounds simple, it's a detailed event that is mesmerizing to watch. Competitors jump as far as they can from the launching zone to make a stable landing.The slopes are composed of the built-in ramp (inrun) and the actual hill. Skiers start crouched on the inrun, then begin moving, gaining speed to prepare for takeoff. At the takeoff point, the jumper actually jumps using solely their legs to do this. Timing is extremely important at takeoff to get a good distance. After takeoff, a jumper is usually in the air for five to seven seconds. Skiers are then evaluated on their landing. The distance scored is related to the construction point (K-point) which is a line drawn in the landing area to serve as a target for competitors to reach. After landing, there is the outrun portion of the course. There is a fall line at the end that is used as a judging mark. Anything from takeoff to the fall line will be judged, meaning a jumper who falls before the fall line will lose points. Jumps are evaluated by the distance traveled and the style of the jump. There is a more detailed scoring portion at the bottom.At this year's Olympics there are four events, meaning there will be four sets of medals — men's individual normal hill, men's individual large hill, men's team large hill and women's individual normal hill. Ski jumping has been around since the first jump in the early 1800s in Norway. Norwegian Sondre Norheim is considered by many as the father of modern ski jumping, winning what's been called the first competition in 1866. It made its way to the United States through Norwegian emigrants in the late 1800s. A new technique was pioneered by Thulin Thams and Sigmnud Ruud after World War I. This technique involved bending the upper body at the hip, leaning forward with arms extended at the front while skis are parallel to each other. Austria's Sepp Bradl used this technique to jump more than 100 meters in 1936. In the 1950s, Andreas Daescher held his arms backwards close to the body, leaning forward more. In 1985, Sweden's Jan Bokloev spread his skis into a "V" formation that is used today. This "V" technique was initially laughed at but proved extremely successful. As techniques have changed, so have the competition formats. Ski jumping has been included at the Winter Olympics since the first Games in 1924. The normal hill competition was included for the 1964 Games. In 1988, the men's team event was added as the third type of competition. Women's ski jumping first appeared in the Sochi 2014 games.The length of the hill has varied anywhere from 70 to 90 meters throughout the years, with the jump first being classified as a large hill at 70 meters until 1956. In 1960, the hill was standardized to 80 meters. But then in 1964, the normal hill competition was added, which was 70 meters. The large hill event then increased from 80 meters to 90 meters in 1968. But now, ski jumping competitions are referred to by their K-point distances rather than the run length prior to launching from the ski jump. Norway is the all-time leader in Olympic ski jumping medals. Norway's Birger Ruud is the top medalist in the normal hill with three medals — two gold and one silver. Switzerland's Simon Ammann and Finlands' Matti Nykanen are the top medalists in the large hill event with two gold apiece. Stefan Kraft holds the official record for the world's longest ski jump with 253.5 meters in 2017.At this point, it makes most sense to give mini-guides to each event. We'll break it into four sections, corresponding to each event. Former World champion Sarah Hendrickson and Michael Glasder clinched spots in the Pyeongchang Games on Sunday as the overall winners at the U.S. Olympic trials for ski jumping.Hendrickson was the women's winner with 263.4 total points after two jumps. She took the lead following a first jump where she covered 97.5 meters at 91.0 kph.It is the second trip to the Olympics for Hendrickson. She qualified for Sochi in 2014 but finished 21st overall after suffering a major knee injury in a training accident before the games.Hendrickson has undergone four knee surgeries since participating in the Sochi Games. Winning at the Olympic trials represents a particularly satisfying step for her in her comeback."It's pretty emotional just because the four years have been so tough," Hendrickson said. "This gives me confidence that hard work pays off, and if you keep working for your dream, then you'll get there. That is something that will stick with me for the rest of the life, and that's a really good lesson, too."Nina Lussi fell from third to fourth after suffering an injury on the landing of her second jump. She had to be taken off of the hill on a sled stretcher.Glasder qualified for his first Olympics after missing the cut in 2010 and 2014. He claimed the men's title with 270 points after two jumps. Glasder edged in front after covering 98.5 meters at 87.4 kph on his first jump."I was relaxed, feeling good, feeling like my technique was heading in the right direction," Glasder said. "Obviously, showed that today and I'm looking to build on that toward the Olympics."

Kevin Bickner gave Glasder a stiff challenge after he covered 100 meters at 87.3 kph on his second jump. Bickner finished second with 268.6 points. William Rhoads took third with 256.6 points.The 2018 Winter Olympics will take place from February 9 to 25, 2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea.The host city was announced on July 6 2011 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), beating Munich (Germany) and Annecy (France). The 2018 Games will be South Korea's second Olympics and the Republic's first Winter Games after hosting the Summer Games in 1988. PyeongChang will also be the third Asian city to host the Winter Games after Japanese cities Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998. A total of 90 teams have qualified at least one athlete to compete in this year's Winter Olympics, with 89 countries and the delegation from Russia taking part under the IOC flag. Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, and Singapore are also scheduled to make their Winter Olympics debut.With the official Olympics schedule being released late last year, it was revealed that the competition for the 2018 Winter Games will begin on Thursday, February 8 with mixed doubles curling and ski jumping events starting on this day. When are the Winter Olympics ceremonies being held?The opening ceremonies will be held on Friday, February 9 and the closing ceremonies on Sunday, February 25 after the traditional finale of the men's ice hockey final that will share the billing with curling and cross-country skiing.Both opening and closing ceremonies are expected to be held PyeongChang Olympic Stadium which is a temporary structure with a capacity for 35,000 fans.Where are the Winter Olympics?The 2018 Winter Olympics will be hosted in PyeongChang in South Korea, a city 80 miles east of capital Seoul and 60 miles south of the Demilitarised Zone separating South and North Korea. This will be South Korea's second time hosting the Olympics after Seoul hosted the Summer Olympics in 1988.Which sports are in the Winter Olympics?This Winter Olympics will see a total of 102 gold medal events, the most ever contested at an Olympic Winter Games.There are a total of 15 varied disciplines across the seven sports in the Winter Olympics competition that include traditional events like the bobsleigh, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboard and speed skating.Are there any new events for the 2018 Winter Olympics?The programme for PyeongChang 2018 includes six new events: snowboard big air (men's and women's), speed skating mass start (men's and women's), curling mixed doubles and the Alpine team event.The Winter Olympics schedule reveals that short track and speed skating sessions will take place in the evening, as well as the luge, ski jumping and biathlon which will occur under floodlights.All Alpine skiing competitions will be held in the day so that spectators are able to attend many events in one day and will be split between two venues. The speed events (downhill, Super-G and combined) will take place at the Jeongseong Alpine Centre and the technical events (giant slalom, slalom and the new team competition) at the Yongpyong Alpine Centre.What will the Winter Olympics medals look like?The PyeongChang 2018 medals have been created by designer Lee Suk-woo with a texture that resembles tree trunks, a symbol of the development of Korean culture and the work put into the Games themselves. The medals also feature diagonal lines and three-dimensional Korean alphabet consonants that stretch across the face. Overall, a total of 259 sets of medals have been cast for the Winter Olympics and the gold medal weighs the most at 586 grams.How to watch the 2018 Winter Olympics PyeongChang 2018 will be broadcast on BBC TV, Eurosport and digital platforms in the UK and on NBC and online for those in the US. The time difference for South Korea is nine hours ahead of London and 14 hours ahead of New York. What is the mascot for the 2018 Winter Olympics?The 2018 Winter Olympics mascot is Soohorang, a white tiger, chosen because of the tiger's association with Korean mythology and culture and is a symbol of trust, strength and protection.Will North Korea be competing?Despite backlash, it was announced that North Korea would be sending a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games after officials met for high-level talks for the first time in two years. This delegation will include supporters, art performers, observers, a taekwondo demonstration team, journalists and athletes, who intend on marching with South Korea at the opening ceremony as they did in 2006. The talks between North and South Korea were held in the Demilitarised Zone, otherwise known as the Panmumjom 'peace village' and five senior officials from each side attended. This came after Kim Jong-un revealed he was considering sending a North Korean team to the Olympics this year and the talks were scheduled after the US and South Korea agreed to delay their joint military exercises until after PyeongChang 2018. Will Russia be competing?In February Russia was banned from taking part in the Winter Olympics due to 'systematic manipulation' of anti-doping rules, according to the IOC. However, Russian athletes who can provide evidence that they are clean, will be 'invited' and will compete under the name 'Olympic Athlete from Russia* (OAR). Which British athletes are competing?Team Great Britain are expected to bring back more medals (one gold, one silver and two bronze) than they did from the Sochi 2014 Games. With short track speed skater Elise Christie winning three gold medals and one bronze at the 2017 World Championships, she could become the first British athlete to win more than one medal at a Winter Games.

Lizzy Yarnold could become the first British athlete to defend a Winter Olympic title after her gold medal win in Sochi, while freestyle skiers James Woods and Isabel Atkin have the potential to win Britain's first ever medals on skis. Katie Ormerod and Billy Morgan could win medals for snowboarding as well as the Team GB women's curling team, led by Eve Muirhead, that won world bronze last year.Which US athletes are competing?Team USA snowboarder Jamie Anderson stole the show at Sochi 2014 where she earned a gold medal in the slopestyle snowboarding event and Kelly Clark will also return, renowned as one of the most celebrated American snowboarders in history. Nathan Chen is also one to watch after becoming the first male figure skater to ever land five quadruple jumps in a single performance, in addition to skater Adam Rippon, who has qualified for the first time this year.Which Australian athletes are competing?Snowboarder Jarryd Hughes will be returning to the Winter Olympics this year after ranking number two on the FIS World Cup Ranking, but finishing in 17th place at Sochi 2014.Matilda Friend will be joining her ice dance partner William Badaoui to realise their Olympic dreams and skier Britt Cox, the youngest athlete at the 2010 Games at age 15, will be the one to beat at PyeongChang 2018.Where and when did the first Winter Games take place?PyeongChang 2018 will be the 23rd Winter Olympics. The first ever Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France after the IOC decided that there should be a separate 'International Winter Sports Week'. The Games were a success with more than 250 athletes from 16 nations competing in the five sports: bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing and skating.Where will future Olympic Games be held?After the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Summer Games will be held in Tokyo in 2020. The next Winter Games will be held in Beijing in 2022 and it has been decided that the next Summer Olympics will be in Paris in 2024 and Los Angeles in 2028.Ski jumper Noriaki Kasai is set to become the first athlete to compete at eight Winter Olympic Games after securing his place at Pyeongchang 2018. The Ski Association of Japan's qualifying period for male ski jumpers concluded at the World Cup event in Austrian town Bischofshofen on Saturday (January 6), when Kasai finished 48th. According to The Japan Times, the Association have ruled that he has done enough to earn a berth at Pyeongchang 2018, where the 45-year-old will make history if he competes.At Sochi 2014, Kasai and Russian luger Albert Demchenko became the first athletes to compete in seven Winter Olympics.Demchenko has been banned for life from the Olympic Games and was stripped of his Sochi 2014 men’s singles and mixed team silver medals after being implicated in the Russian doping scandal."My current goal is to win the gold medal at Pyeongchang," Kasai said in 2015, according to The Japan Times."When I reached 40, I decided I would call it quits when I turned 50. "But now Sapporo, my birthplace, is [potentially] bidding for the 2026 Games."I will be 54 by that time, but it is too big a chance to give up."

Kasai made his Olympic debut at Albertville 1992 and has competed at every edition since.He won the individual large hill silver medal and team large hill bronze at Sochi 2014.This came two decades after he claimed his first Olympic medal with team large hill silver at Lillehammer 1994.Kasai made his World Cup debut in 1988 in Sapporo.He has 17 individual World Cup victories to his name and has made the podium 63 times.Furthermore, he triumphed at the 1992 Ski Flying World Championships in Czech town Harrachov.The full Japanese men’s ski jumping squad for Pyeongchang 2018 is due to be announced on Thursday (January 11).Among the others expected to be named is Junshiro Kobayashi and brother Ryoyu.Daiki Ito and Taku Takeuchi are also likely to make the cut. Kamil Stoch of Poland rounded off his second straight Four Hills Tournament victory by also winning the last stop on Saturday.The man who swept the Sochi Olympic golds became the second ski jumper to win the annual competition by triumphing at all four stages, 16 years after Germany’s Sven Hannawald completed the feat.Hannawald, who was working at the event as a TV commentator, appeared in the finish area soon after Stoch’s winning jump and congratulated him.“I am positively surprised, happy, and a bit tired,” said Stoch, adding that the win was a “great reward” for him.After winning in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck, Stoch said that the prospect of matching Hannawald’s record had not put him under extra pressure.“It was big pressure this whole tournament, not just today. The most important was to stay focused on your job,” he said. “I just wanted to do my job, that’s all. I didn’t focus on winning. I focused on doing it right.”The 30-year-old Stoch won both individual events at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, adding to his world title on the large hill a year before.In 2017, he became the second Polish winner of the Four Hills Tournament after Adam Malysz took the title in 2001.On Saturday, Stoch had jumps of 132.5 and 137 meters to finish on 275.6 points, edging Anders Fannemel of Norway by 3.2 points.Andreas Wellinger of Germany was third with 270.5 points, and he finished runner-up to Stoch in the final Four Hills standings.With his fourth straight World Cup win, Stoch overtook Richard Freitag atop the overall standings with 723 points, 12 clear of the German.Freitag didn’t enter Saturday’s event having injured his left hip in a crash in Innsbruck two days ago. With a total of 11 medals, including three golds, ski jumping has provided rich pickings at the Winter Olympics for Japan, and the Games in Pyeongchang will provide another chance for them to excel in front of a prime-time Asian audience.The combination of strength, timing and technique makes it a sport that has long appealed to the Japanese, with the epicenter of ski jumping excellence located on the north island of Hokkaido.It was there that the gold-silver-bronze triumph, led by Yukio Kasaya, at the 1972 Olympics on home turf in Sapporo took place, cementing the status of the sport there.“I was starter at the top of the jump, next to all the jumpers. I was hoping Kasaya would win, but I never expected we’d take 1-2-3,” Kunitsugu Chiba, the coach of that 1972 ski jumping team, told Reuters.The event was held at the Miyanmori ski jumping stadium on the eastern slope of Mount Okura, where the sport is said to have been first practised in Japan.Students at the local university, who had seen it in Europe in the early 1900s and brought it back to Japan with them, built jumps around Sapporo to practise on.The jump used for the Olympics was originally built in the early 1930s with support from Prince Chichibu, a brother of Emperor Hirohito.By the time Sapporo hosted the 1972 Games, Japan had only won one medal (a silver at the 1956 Games in Turin) at a Winter Olympics, and the country was hungry for success.“Kasaya had the entire nation’s hopes on his shoulders, and he’d been winning recent competitions, so expectations were high,” Chiba said.Kasaya took gold in front of a packed crowd at the Miyanomori site, Akitsugu Konno took silver and Seiji Aochi took bronze in a clean sweep.The 1-2-3 finish ended up being the only medals the host nation won in Sapporo and the trio became the toast of the nation, creating a yardstick that generations of ski jumpers that followed have had a hard time measuring up to, despite a team silver in 1994 and gold at the 1998 event in Nagano.The 77-year-old Chiba said it’s hard to specify why Japan has enjoyed such relative success in ski jumping compared to other winter sports.“I’ve been asked that a lot, and it’s hard to answer. I think it might be because Japanese are detail-oriented,” he explained.”Running needs sheer physical strength. The cross-country coaches say that, that no matter how hard our athletes try, it’s hard to compete (against physically bigger foreigners).“Jumping is more technical, and not so much physical strength.”Despite its population of around 3,500, the small town of Shimokawa, some 220km from Sapporo, has provided more than its fair share of Olympic ski jumpers to the national team.Noriaki Kasai is set to compete in his eighth Olympic Games at the age of 45, while 23-year-old Yuki Ito is at the other end of the scale, expected to make her Olympic debut in Pyeongchang.“To nurture athletes in this sport, it’s very important that they be near ski jumps. You have to have snow, you have to have people living near snow, and you have to have the facilities to jump,” Katsuhiko Ito, father of Yuki and a member of the board of education in Shimokawa, told Reuters.“We have four jumps in our town. Some of them are just a 15-20 minute walk for elementary school students. It’s a sport that requires a major facility, so you need to have that nearby.”With the Winter Games taking place in Asia for the first time in 20 years, the stage is set for the Japanese to shine once again in the sport of ski jumping.

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Most veteran bitcoin users hold their digital wealth, aka store it as a long-term investment. Yet a growing number of people are shopping with cryptocurrency, especially when it comes to supporting women-led businesses. Beauty startups are showing how and why shoppers actually want to use cryptocurrency.

Mainstream beauty products are full of harmful chemicals and toxic ingredients. Dermatology specialist Dr. Steve Xu, a resident physician at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, found 5,144 health-related complaints connected to cosmetic products were submitted to the Food and Drug Administration over the past 12 years. Anyone who regularly sleuths on beauty forums and social media groups sees these types of health hazards are commonplace.

“We have this huge industry and there are lots of chemicals in these products that largely go unregulated,” Xu told Time. Researchers around the world also found cosmetic products for women of color, with different hair textures and deeper skin tones, have an even higher chance of containing harmful substances such as mercury and steroids.

That’s why Maia Singletary, founder of the Chicago-based brand Astrida Naturals, used her tech expertise to help launch her own company. Astrida Naturals accepts both bitcoin and ether, in addition to regular payment methods. “For me, there's less risk of fraud since there are no chargebacks and the fees per transaction are less,” Singletary told International Business Times. “As a niche brand, it's easier and faster for me to move and adopt new tech. I don't have a board of directors or anyone else to consult.”

Maia Singletary, founder of the crypto-friendly beauty brand Astrida Naturals.Photo: Astrida Naturals

Niche beauty brands have a unique set of challenges compared to mainstream brands. Their customers tend to be more geographically diverse, so international payments and shipping are both core issues. Plus, customers tend to have higher expectations when it comes to transparency. As such, health-centric beauty startups are more inclined to adopt blockchain technology early on. Amber Wikstrom, co-founder of Nuciya Beauty in Canada, told IBT cryptocurrency users are still rare but that they are a meaningful sector of her customer base.

“Though the number as a percentage of sales is small, we’ve found that cryptocurrency customers generally spend more per purchase,” Wikstrom told IBT. “We have a sizeable amount of international customers. Decentralized cryptocurrencies can help circumvent issues with their local currency or even just provide a little bit more privacy...in the future blockchain could revolutionize how we track our shipments.”

Amber Wikstrom, bitcoin advocate and co-founder of Nuciya Beauty in Canada.Photo: Nuciya Beauty

Bitcoin transaction fees are one of the biggest barriers for entrepreneurs who want to accept bitcoin payments, since they can range from just a few cents to $25 per transaction. Yet a spokesperson from Lush UK, one of the few mainstream beauty brands to directly accept cryptocurrency, said 82 customers purchased products with bitcoin since July.

“Blockchain technology offers huge opportunities in creating transparent, fully traceable supply chains from source to shelf,” the Lush UK spokesperson told IBT in an email. “Where we work directly with a large number of small scale growers and producers around the world, many of whom are underserved by the traditional banking industry, cryptocurrencies offer opportunities to speed up payments directly to our suppliers and reduce the costs associated with these transactions.”

Some entrepreneurs are working around bitcoin’s costly transaction fees by accepting other cryptocurrencies too. Sunny Park, founder of the Korean skincare brand MOONIC, told IBT her business plans to add XRP, bitcoin cash and Ethereum payment options in the near future. “We’ve only had a few [bitcoin payments],” she said. “But ironically, the purchases that were made are now worth hundreds of dollars due to bitcoin’s volatility and sudden increase.”

Why would anyone want to spend something as valuable as bitcoin on makeup, hair or skin care products? This question is especially interesting in Korea, where bitcoin has suddenly become so popular South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon warned it might corrupt Korean youth by leading them to “illegal activities.” Bloomberg reported 21 percent of global bitcoin trades during a 24-hour burst in activity last week involved Korean won. People like Park encourage thoughtful shopping with cryptocurrency because she wants to change the public perception. Bitcoin can buy more than drugs from darknet markets. It can also buy healthy cosmetics made by ethical companies.

“People like myself could inspire a generation of girls to pursue careers that are often seen as male dominated,” Park said. “The combination of technological prowess in our country along with good role models, and most importantly easy access to bitcoin and blockchain technology, would guarantee a dramatic shift in Korean mentality.”

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Accepting bitcoin payments also means entrepreneurs need to figure out how to store and report those earnings. Tax reporting for cryptocurrency is still a nightmare, from Seoul to Chicago. “We are a bit worried about how this will affect us in the future from the perspective of taxes,” Park said. “Especially if we decide to keep our profits in BTC instead of converting to local fiat.”

Park is a former engineer, so she’s keen to see a variety of high-tech solutions for future entrepreneurs. Fashion designers are already experimenting with blockchain-based systems for tracking sustainable ingredients. Walmart now uses blockchain technology to track food shipments and bolster safety precautions. The same concept could apply to cosmetics.

“In our field, safety and transparency about what’s inside the product is very important,” Park said. “So, for example, a mom buying one of our creams could feel very secure knowing what components are used if the creams we sell subscribe to some sort of a blockchain confirmation system that checks their content.”

Wikstrom and Singletary both consider Ethereum their favorite blockchain network because smart contracts could help reshape the beauty industry beyond payments. Blockchain technology could help subvert power dynamics in marketing and ethical production too.

The beauty industry is notorious for manipulative advertising that capitalizes on women’s insecurities. Many women start buying makeup as children. According to a survey of college students at the University of New Hampshire, all 89 respondents who wore makeup began engaging with brands before they turned 18, sometimes starting as young as 12. Regardless of age, most women feel current beauty advertisements hurt viewers’ self image and increase anxiety. But what if an e-commerce platform gave consumers control over what types of advertisements they are exposed to? That’s the idea behind several blockchain startups currently fundraising through token sales, including the Berlin-based e-commerce startup Wysker.

Unlike many other initial coin offerings, Wysker is more focused on thoughtful token distribution than sheer quantity. Wysker co-founder Tobias Haag told IBT more than 1,000 participants joined the token sale so far. The average investment hovers around 1.5 ether tokens, worth a few hundred dollars. The Wysker platform already includes thousands of products from 300 stores, including Sephora, Urban Outfitters and Dolls Kill.

“We spoke to Unilever a couple of weeks ago and see a huge interest from media companies buying tokens early to 'invest' in advertising budgets,” Haag told IBT. “It opens up completely new opportunities to connect brands with customers. Tokens are then creative ways to increase engagement and build positive brand relationships.”

Wysker’s blockchain network allows shoppers to keep control of their personal data and earn tokens if they choose to offer it to brands. Those tokens can be cashed in on the shopping app for discounts and other perks. “Consent is king,” Haag said. “With the token model added to it, it completely changes the power dynamics as it shifts all the control back to the consumer... I think leveraging user data for manipulative advertising is a means to an end. Our model values the consumers, gives rewards, increases leverage, and ultimately reduces prices.”

The most popular argument leveraged against brands enabling cryptocurrency payments is consumers won’t use it. This simply isn’t true. BitSoaps, a cryptocurrency-themed company offering homemade soaps from California, sold 4,000 soaps since the company launched in 2013. Roughly 80 percent of those purchases were made with bitcoin. “The majority of our sales come around Black Friday and holiday sales,” BitSoap co-founder Kyle Kariya told IBT. “Besides direct sales, we have distributors in Europe and the US who buy in larger quantities...I feel every market is an untapped market for cryptocurrency.”

BitSoaps' motto is merging "environmental mindfulness and digital currency." They offer homemade Ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin-themed bath products.Photo: BitSoaps

Kariya runs the shop with his soap-making fiancé, who prefers to remain anonymous because she still holds a day job in cybersecurity. Perhaps a more accurate critique of cryptocurrency payments is that people who don’t already know how to use bitcoin rarely learn for the sake of one product. However, as cryptocurrency becomes increasingly mainstream, more and more shoppers are looking for cryptocurrency payment options.

The beauty industry is one of the most centralized systems, ruled by gatekeepers such as fashion magazine, women’s media outlets and corporate brands. Customers of all genders are looking online to find where they can find healthy, ethically made products by smaller producers then buy those products directly with transparent payment systems like bitcoin. “When it comes to international payments, I feel it [cryptocurrency] makes it so much easier, secure and convenient for all parties involved,” Park added.

There’s still a long way to go before blockchain technology is a mainstream component of the beauty industry. Forbes reported the $445 billion beauty industry is full of tech-savvy female entrepreneurs, many of which struggle to raise money from traditional venture capitalists. Engaging directly with the cryptocurrency community is one way these women are overcoming the challenges of growing a niche brand.

“I think it's going to take a while before we see any meaningful adoption,” Singletary described how to broader beauty industry is slow to change. “I realize I'm somewhat ahead of the curve in this. But overall, beauty consumers are tech savvy and when the time comes they will pick it up with ease.”

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Annie Jacobsen is no stranger to controversy, and she certainly does not part company with it in her upcoming book Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis (to be released on Mar 28, 2017). Lifting the veil of government conspiracies and secret programs that powers that be would rather be left unnoticed is a niche that Jacobsen has embraced with great success. So much so, the yet-to-be released Phenomena, has already been picked up by Blumhouse and Amblin for a drama based on the book to be made into a television series. While this newest book deals with the secret experiments, programs and all-around interest of the United States government when it comes to extra-sensory phenomena, we revisit another title Jacobsen penned that set the world ablaze in 2011 with new allegations concerning America’s most famous secret base: Area 51.

Reality T.V.’s obsession with programming featuring conspiracy theories, paranormal happenings and ancient extraterrestrials was in full swing in 2011. The public couldn’t get enough stories about conspiracies and aliens to sate their ever-growing appetite for entertainment. This time of ever-blossoming interest for all things paranormal gave rise to opportunities to propose a story concerning government conspiracies involving the cover-up of seemingly intergalactic proportions, which were not only popular and lucrative at that time, but profitable. Several authors, speakers and media producers took full advantage of the opportunity presented them and the genre expanded greatly. In the meantime, investigative journalist and author Annie Jacobsen would uncover a shocking secret while researching her book about Area 51, which would lead the author head-on into a firestorm of controversy.

In June of 2011, the book “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base” by author and L.A. Times writer Annie Jacobsen was released after several years of gathering research, unclassified documents and eyewitness testimony. Jacobsen had presented new evidence in a starkly informative narrative that took the reader through critical events and decisions that would bring about the creation and operation of the base, as well as insight into the top-secret projects and “black” operations that made the United States the leader in stealth and high-altitude flight. She would describe the fascinating lives of some of the test pilots, security guards and engineers brought previously unimagined technological advances into reality, and Jacobsen would also address the ubiquitous mythology of Area 51’s involvement with the wreckage of the crashed alien flying saucer from Roswell, New Mexico in a shocking and ghastly revelation.

That same year the book “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base” by author and L.A. Times writer Annie Jacobsen after several years of gathering research, unclassified documents and eyewitness testimony. Jacobsen had presented new evidence the body of research she had collated into a chronology of Area 51, but soon Jacobsen was the one in the spotlight. Shortly following the book’s release came a firestorm of controversy about horrific allegations of crimes against humanity by the former Soviet Union and the United States with the most egregious of which Jacobsen describes in the last seven pages of the work. The mainstream media it seemed, only focused on those final seven pages. Then the focus went from the story to Annie Jacobsen herself in a media backlash that would call into question the credibility of one of her unnamed sources from the book. The irony of the media attacking one of their own for not revealing information about an unnamed source, who was for all intensive purposes acting as a whistleblower, was lost upon most, if not all her most vehement critics.

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If you plan on reading the book, stop reading this article now. Major points in the book are revealed from here on out.

On the off chance that you have lived in complete media and cultural isolation, “Area 51” is a household name that has been given to the secret facility in the Nevada desert that has captivated millions with its association to alleged research of acquired off-world technology and unidentified flying objects. Author Annie Jacobsen presented a historical record of the base that focuses on the decisions made by some of the most influential and important individuals of the twentieth century that you may have never heard of. Those decisions, as presented by Jacobsen, would be influenced by the desperate struggle for technological and international power between the United States and the former Soviet Union which culminated in the development and deployment of secret spy planes containing advances in stealth, performance and capabilities that would have seemed like science fiction during the cold war. However, aliens (or the insinuation of extraterrestrial activity) are not the focus of this book, but a means to an unfortunate and disturbing end.

In the book, Annie Jacobsen’s unnamed source explains that on July 7, 1947 what crashed on a remote ranch near Roswell, New Mexico was a flying saucer, but it had not come from outer space. In 1938, a Halloween broadcast of a radio play based on H.G. Well’s book “War of the Worlds” had reportedly cause a panic in the streets of America. Whether the panic was actually widespread or embellished by the media at the time is still a bone of contention, but the news of panic reportedly made its way to Joseph Stalin, the then leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin recognized that the apparent tendency for the citizens of the United States to panic when provoked, and sought a way to (no pun intended) capitalize on it.

Jacobsen makes the claim in the book that Stalin had German scientists he had German scientists and engineers that were smuggled, coaxed or kidnapped from Germany after WWII at his disposal. He set upon them the task of constructing a flying disc, one so revolutionary and strange that would make the Americans that it was from another planet. If the craft alone would not send the citizens of the United States taking to the streets in fear from an apparent alien invasion, the unearthly crew would. Also for a short time at his disposal, Stalin had one of the most infamous monsters of the third Reich; Josef Mengele. As the story goes, Mengele had surgically mutilated children for Stalin, to produce the crew for the “alien” spacecraft that Stalin was to send to the United States that would physically resemble the popular notion of what an alien from another planet would physiologically resemble. The craft and occupants were spirited away to Wright Patterson Air Force Base, then ultimately to the top secret facility at Groom Lake, Area 51. There. According to Jacobson’s source, the United States government began to reconstruct the craft, and unbelievably, the crew themselves. This would include conducting human experimentation on physically and mentally handicapped children as well as prisoners, all of whom were non-consenting participants.

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The media leaped on this disclosure as if there was nothing else in the book. There were dozens of televised and print interviews that focused on the book’s revelation that the “aliens” from Roswell weren’t aliens on her whirlwind book tour. The press couldn’t get enough. However, the invitations for Jacobson to talk with the press would soon become “hit pieces,” interview and articles would soon attacking her credibility as an investigative journalist.

In May of 2011, Annie Jacobsen was featured on a Segment of the television news magazine, ‘Nightline.’ Correspondent Bill Weir questioned the validity of the story in aggressive fashion, and asked to speak to her unnamed source. Weir stated in the interview that Nightline was able to “track down” her source and interviewed him themselves, and he recounted the Roswell incident again. But Weir was insistent that due to the age of the witness, and the fact that his story could not be corroborated, made him an unreliable source. Weir also focused on the allegation that the source said that “he never touched the people in that craft” where in Jacobsen’s book it is stated he held them. Weir wraps up the segment insinuating that the book is a work of fiction by telling viewers to focus on “the real legacy of Area 51; the men who risked their lives in thankless silence” just moments after he calls into question the reliability of Jacobson’s source by citing that Korean War veterans that described massacres that never happened.

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Popular Mechanics featured an article in the May 2011 issue featuring an interview with Jacobsen discussing the highlights of the book, but a few months after the Weir’s hit piece aired on Nightline, on September 12, 2011 the magazine published another article… this making a point to contest several of the claims Jacobson’s source had disclosed, as well as systematically cataloging errors found throughout the book.

Throughout the media backlash, one thing was apparent. The media was more concerned with discrediting Annie Jacobsen and her source than protecting the identity of her source. In the media, protecting the identity of an unnamed source is a standard practice, and protecting the identity of an unnamed source that happens to be technically, a government whistleblower, should be paramount. Bill Weir of Nightline tracked down her source and conducted one single interview of unknown (but much, much less time than Jacobsen) length with the man that Jacobsen had spent hundreds of hours with over an extended period of time, and the Popular Mechanics article even complained to the publisher about having an unnamed source in the book. Are we to believe that Popular Mechanics has never used an unnamed source or that they do not have early access to emerging technology when it comes to military vehicles, weapons and aircraft?

Perhaps what occurred here is the embellishment of a story from a kind old man with impeccable credentials or maybe it is a case of an author who throws a shocking claim in the end of their book in order to boost controversy and sales. However, what if this is a case of an author who got too close to the truth. What if this is a case of a seasoned and well-respected journalist and author that revealed something that was never to be revealed and the backlash and media smear was actually a campaign to suppress not her story, but THE story? It is said that every myth has its origins in the truth. Did Annie Jacobsen actually uncover what happened at Roswell, or present a story to the public that was so close to the truth that it drew the attention of entities that do not want the real story to ever be exposed?

Have we not seen how our own government, namely the Central Intelligence Agency, has manipulated media stories around the world with disinformation campaigns and expertly placing false information in order to influence the behavior of consumers of such media? The concepts of propaganda, media manipulation and selective release or withholding of information by both the government and the media were well-known and employed, so who are we to trust? Also, assuming something did crash in the desert in 1947, would it be more believable that a foreign government would attempt perform a hoax on the United States than alien beings travelling millions of miles through the vast and dangerous distances through space just to get to Earth and crash in the middle of the desert during a thunderstorm. Jacobsen references this question with the metaphor of Occam’s razor in the book as well.

“Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base” by Annie Jacobsen is a well-written book, that is beside the point. Annie Jacobson hadn’t just written those last seven pages that triggered the media into a frenzy, she had constructed a compelling and engrossing narrative of the history of Area 51 throughout the entire book. The resulting backlash against the book by the press also demonstrated that even a respectable and credible author and investigative journalist can be the target of media scrutiny. To my knowledge, Annie Jacobson has never retracted or refuted the story told to her by her unnamed Area 51 source, and continues to vehemently defend them as a trusted eyewitness to the events described in her book.

Annie Jacobsen is the author of several intriguing, upsetting, and thought-provoking books and can be found on Amazon.com. Her newest book, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, will be released on March 28, 2017.

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