Sunday, February 16, 2014

Ski jumping: Drama, anger and concrete as jumps are built (Reuters)

Germany's Severin Freund soars through the air during the final round of the men's ski jumping large hill individual final of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, at the RusSki Gorki Ski Jumping Center in Rosa Khutor, February 15, 2014. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach


By David Ljunggren ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Reuters) – When ski jumpers arrived for an international event at Russia’s new Olympic hill complex in December 2012, they found a construction site. “Sochi was very interesting because there was no snow, just a lot of mud and dirt … we only jumped on the normal hill because the big hill was not ready with snow,” Austria’s Gregor Schlierenzauer recalled in an interview with Reuters. The RusSki Gorki jumps in the mountains above Sochi should have been straightforward to build yet turned into the most complex of all the projects at the Olympics, which are expected to have cost Russia more than $50 billion. Two firms tried and failed to complete the task and in 2012, Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, stepped in.


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