Another ingenious production of bored Scandinavian military officers, ski jumping features men (and it is only men) jumping from either the normal hill (90m) or the large hill (120m) for both distance and a bit of form. Landing is a must, both for scoring and survival. The odds-on favorite is Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer, who is coming off a huge World Cup season and has the unfair advantage of winglike flaps of skin between his arms and torso. One of those things is true!
