SKI JUMPING
FLYING IN A V FORMATION
Everyone laughed and cringed during the Calgary Games when Britain's "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards jumped with his skis in a V configuration -- among other odd angles. His unpolished "style" was in stark contrast to the controlled flights of other jumpers, who kept their skis tightly parallel. Edwards finished dead last, but he may have been on to something. This year some of the best jumpers on the hills at Courchevel will be flying with their skis forming an ungainly but aerodynamic V shape. As innovator Jan Boklov, a Swede, has demonstrated, jumping in...
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