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ski jump

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ski jump
a high ramp overhanging a slope from which skiers compete to make the longest jump


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Sam Smyth (Girl TM): A wooden ski jump, gap to rainbow rail, roll out to a quarter.
Her architectural experiments certainly run the gamut: a ski jump on the Bergisel Mountain in Innsbruck; stage design for the Pet Shop Boys 1999 world tour; snow and ice "landscape formations" in Finland (realized in collaboration with Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang); a tilting glass showroom for Citroen on the Champs-Elysees; a proposal for New York City's 2012 Olympic Village.
Raised in Iraq, he had spent the past several years in college in Australia, where he started making dedicated, if unsophisticated, attempts to learn how to ski, skate, ski jump, and snowboard.
 
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