It’s Saturday night…and we’re watching ski jumping
Yeah, we know, we’re pretty crazy.
Anyways. Believe it or not, ski jumping is among the more popular Polish sports. This can all be attributed to one man, Adam Małysz (pronounced ma-wish), who dominated the sport for several years. He has four World Cup titles and two medals from the Salt Lake City Olympics. He is so ridiculously popular in Poland, his Polish Wikipedia page is longer than those of LeBron James, Angelina Jolie, or President Obama. Go check, we’ll wait.
Earlier this week, Adam took the silver in the individual normal hill. This evening, he added another silver in the individual large hill.
The sportscasters are great to listen to because they get so into the action. They say things like:
Piękny skok! (Beautiful jump!)
Daleko, daleko, daleko! (Farther, farther, farther!)
Ohhhhhh....BRAVO! (Self-explanatory)
(Imagine the level of passion of the "do you believe in miracles?" from the 1980 Olympics, when the US beat the Soviets. Like that, every time he jumps.)
Americans just don’t get that into ski jumping…
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