Olympic ski jumper disqualified from event over boot size

For Michael Jordan, it had to beryllium the shoes. But for an Olympic skis jumper connected Sunday, it was his boots that proved to beryllium consequential to his clip astatine the 2026 Winter Games.

Austrian skis jumper Daniel Tschofenig came into the Milan Cortina Games arsenic 1 of the favorites to perchance instrumentality a golden medal successful ample elevation skis jumping aft helium won a World Cup golden medal during the 2024-25 season.

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Daniel Tschofenig, of Austria, gets acceptable for a leap during a skis jumping, men's mean hill, grooming league astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Predazzo, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Tschofenig, however, was disqualified from the lawsuit arsenic his boots didn’t conscionable Olympic requirements. His boots were 4 millimeters implicit the standard.

"I utilized caller shoes successful training, which, by the way, I wasn't precise blessed with, but I kept them," helium told AFP. "Unfortunately, I was naive and didn't cheque the sizes. That was incredibly anserine of me."

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A drone follows Daniel Tschofenig, of Austria, arsenic helium soars done the aerial during his archetypal circular leap of the skis jumping men's mean elevation idiosyncratic astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

The punishment was issued aft helium qualified for the finals.

Slovenia’s Domen Prevc picked up a golden medal successful the lawsuit with a full of 301.8 points. Japan’s Ren Nikaido attained the metallic and Poland’s Kacper Tomasiak got the bronze.

Tschofenig’s Austrian teammate Jan Horl finished successful 5th place.

Daniel Tschofenig, of Austria, goes down the ramp during his proceedings leap of the skis jumping men's mean elevation idiosyncratic astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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It volition beryllium backmost to the World Cup and grooming for the 2030 Games for Tschofenig now. He has much than 20 podium finishes successful World Cup competitions and was among the medalists for squad events successful the World Championships successful 2025 and 2023.

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