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Matti Nykänen's 90 meter jump in the movie is inaccurate


I watched on YouTube Matti's real 90 meters' jump and he didn't open the skis in the classic V shape, like he did in the movie. Could have made that in the movie too, although I guess it's hard to replicate that with a real jumper, since all of them are using the V technique today, because it clearly produces longer jumps.

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Yup they should have used cgi.

"I'm not a lady, I'm a journalist"

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I noticed the inaccuracy in jumping style throughout the movie. Do modern ski jumpers nowadays incapable of doing the parallel style anymore?

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