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PREDAZZO, Italy — Slovenia’s Domen Prevc lived as much as his billing as favourite to say gold within the males’s giant hill ski leaping occasion on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday, with Japan’s Ren Nikaido taking silver and Poland’s Kacper Tomasiak securing bronze.
Prevc was second after the primary spherical, behind Nikaido, however turned the competition on its head within the ultimate, hovering 141.5 meters to complete 6.8 factors forward of the Japanese jumper, drawing wild cheers from the massive Slovenian contingent within the Predazzo Stadium in Val di Fiemme.
The first particular person victory of his Olympic profession accomplished a redemption arc for the 26-year-old, who opened the Games with a sixth-placed end within the regular hill occasion, then led Slovenia to a combined workforce gold alongside his sister Nika.
‘I’ve this privilege to do actually good underneath strain,’ Prevc, who sits high of the World Cup standings, instructed Reuters.
‘I used to be simply having fun with this, remembering why you began to do that and simply fly as laborious as doable.’
For Nikaido, the silver medal left a bitter style after he gained bronze within the regular hill.
‘I’m a bit disillusioned that I couldn’t win the gold medal,’ he stated, including that he was upset with himself that he couldn’t handle an even bigger soar within the ultimate spherical.
In moist situations, ski jumpers had been cautious of their fits turning into waterlogged, prompting a sequence of countermeasures as a mixture of rain and snow fell on the high of the hill.
Germany’s Philipp Raimund, who gained gold within the males’s regular hill particular person competitors, completed ninth. Daniel Tschofenig of Austria obtained just one spherical of the competitors as he was disqualified as a result of his boots had been 4 millimeters too lengthy, with an FIS official saying it had been an oversight.
–Reuters, particular to Field Level Media