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1 posted on 03/21/2020 3:10:37 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Boy do I ever remember that.

I was kind of a Ski Jumping fanatic back then.


2 posted on 03/21/2020 3:11:53 PM PDT by crz
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To: Kid Shelleen

I consider myself as brave as the next guy, maybe even braver, but there is no way I would try ski jumping.


4 posted on 03/21/2020 3:14:31 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Kid Shelleen; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Lockbox; carriage_hill; OldMissileer; infool7

Classic Vintage Crash Scene Ping)))


5 posted on 03/21/2020 3:16:23 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Ski Jumping is one of those things I’ll never figure out how anyone can have the guts to do.


7 posted on 03/21/2020 3:19:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Used to watch Wide World of Sports when I was a kid back in the 1970s.

Innocent times.

8 posted on 03/21/2020 3:20:45 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Trump (859); Slow Joe (527); Commie (476); Fake Indian (48); Drunken Weld (1))
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To: Kid Shelleen

No crash helmet back then.


9 posted on 03/21/2020 3:22:29 PM PDT by logitech
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A few different years of the intro on youtube. Mostly low quality, but from a different era.

You can see a few interesting sports legends in most of these intro’s.

My favorite so far is from 1980 which gives you a second “Agony of Defeat” along with this one.

Starts at 3:38 in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dis2PJLvaJc

19 posted on 03/21/2020 3:38:41 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Also made the ELO song “Fire on High” famous.


22 posted on 03/21/2020 3:46:00 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Kid Shelleen
Ouch!

32 posted on 03/21/2020 4:45:52 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
From 1974:

ABC's WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS INTRO 1974


39 posted on 03/21/2020 5:14:29 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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The Agony of Defeat: November 2016

I remember that one.

41 posted on 03/21/2020 5:18:10 PM PDT by meadsjn
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There’s a practice ski jump ramp at one of the local hills here. It’s scary just to stand at the bottom of it and look up. I can’t imagine how bone-chilling the view must be from the top looking down.


42 posted on 03/21/2020 5:26:32 PM PDT by IronJack
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Back in the day they used to win by the distance jumped. In 2020 it is like ice skating with style points.


48 posted on 03/21/2020 7:24:05 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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