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'' The Final Act of the World Cup ski jumping will take place, as has become tradition, in Planica. The location of the Julian Alps is home to the'' last stop of the season for the tenth consecutive season and for the sixteenth time in the last eighteen years. However, in this 2014 you can not attend the show of flights.
Thursday 20 March 2014 4 minutes reading time
In fact, the renovation of the historic Letalnica bratov Gorišek, which will allow the trampoline to return to be the largest in the world, ripping the primacy of Vikersundbakken, would have to begin in spring 2013, but work started only in late August due to bureaucratic problems and consequently the'' system is not yet ready to host competitions.
Therefore you have to fall back on Bloudkova Velikanka, namely the Large Hill, where in history have played 17 games in the first level,'' the last of which, however, way back in 1998. From that moment on the trampoline (built in 1933) has been used less and less, until you fall into a state of disuse'' beginning of the twenty-first century.
However, in recent years it has kicked off a project to € 25 million in'' optical Planica candidacy to host the Nordic World Ski Championships in the coming years. The Bloudkova Velikanka was then completely renovated and has recently changed its conformation (K120 - HS139).
On the old trampoline have stood on the top step of the podium 15 athletes representing 9 different countries, including the defunct Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Yugoslavia. The only jumpers to have repeated success are Slovene (all flagged Yugoslav era'') Primoz Ulaga and German Jens Weißflog.
There are, however, two active athletes to be on the podium on the old Bloudkova Velikanka. '' The last race of the World Cup held on 22 March 1998 was won by Noriaki Kasai. Prior to December 10, 1995 Janne Ahonen had finished in third place.
Under the heading'' nations there is a clear supremacy. Austria, Finland and Norway lead with 3 hits, followed by Yugoslavia and Japan 2. Have a'' statement also Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Germany and Italy.
The blue victory came March 24, 1990 and bears the signature of Roberto Cecon. Previously, March 28, 1982, had arrived in third place with Massimo Rigoni.
On the subject of podiums, there are three athletes to have reached three: the German Jens Weißflog'' s Austrian Andreas Felder and the Yugoslav Primoz Ulaga.
The official record of the old trampoline belongs to Noriaki Kasai Japanese landed just 147.5 yards in 1998.
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