the Four Hills tournament simply
explained this is Tom during the
Christmas break he usually goes away
with his parents on vacation somewhere
nice and tart but this year Tom's dad
has to work tom is bored that is until
he comes across the broadcast of a
sports event he's never heard of before
the Four Hills tournament he does some
research and finds out that the Four
Hills tournament is the most important
annual event in the calendar for ski
jumpers in ski jumping the athlete
starts at the top of a take-off ramp and
descends on skis they jump from the
table at the end after the flight phase
comes the landing the aim is to fly as
far as possible a ski jumping
competition consists of a qualification
jump and a competition with two rounds
that is two jumps the ski jumper is
awarded points after every jump these
are a combination of the distance and
the score from a five-person jury the
jury looks at style and landing the
highest and lowest performance marks are
cancelled out whoever has the most
points after two jumps is the winner Tom
realizes that the Four Hills tournament
is something very special
the tournament has been held every year
since 1953 between December the 29th and
January the 6th it always takes place at
the same for ski jumps in Germany and
Austria all burst off then
garmisch-partenkirchen then Innsbruck
and bischofshofen in Austria the points
from all four competitions are added
together and the person with the most
points at the end is the tournament
champion for the athletes this is a
special kind of challenge as they only
have a very short time to get ready for
each of the different jumps victory in
all four individual contests the Grand
Slam is so difficult to win that so far
only one athlete scan haniv out has
succeeded in achieving this
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winning this tournament is considered as
important as winning the World
Championship or the Winter Olympics this
is why two tracks such large audiences
and high levels of media attention and
something else is different
the knockout system the top 50 athletes
from the qualification round compete
directly against one another the 50th
against the first the 49th against the
second and so on whoever wins there Jule
along with the five best losers that
lucky losers qualify for the second
round where it's all about winning to
win in 1953 you would have had to jump
around 80 meters every time today the
skiers jump over 130 meters the top
winner is the finish athlete Yana Arnon
with five overall victories it's time
for the tournament to start Tom
certainly won't be bored this vacation