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Matti Nykänen died at his home in Lappeenranta, shortly after midnight on 4 February 2019, from a sudden illness, at the age of 55. He had complained of dizziness and nausea earlier that night. [32] He had been diagnosed with diabetes less than three months earlier.
Finnish ski jumping legend Matti Nykänen has died at the age of 55. Finland's sports minister Sampo Terho confirmed the sad news via Twitter on Monday morning. The cause of death has not been disclosed yet.
4 de fev. de 2019 · Finnish ski jumping legend Matti Nykänen has died at the age of 55, Yle has confirmed. Nykänen first gained fame as a ski jumper in the beginning of the 1980s when he quickly climbed his way to the top of the sport. From 1981 until 1991 he won one silver and four gold Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals and a total of 22 ...
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For tabloid editors he is the gift that keeps on giving, to the extent that papers have had their own dedicated Nykänen reporters, tasked with following every unforeseen twist or relapse in the saga. "At first it's funny, because here's this beloved sports figure doing wacky stuff," says Janne Oivio, a sports journalist at the tabloid Ilta-Sanomat....
Nykänen, now 52, is reported to have first taken to the ski slopes aged 8, in response to a dare by his father. Undaunted as a child by the teetering heights of the ski ramps, jumping quickly became an obsession. “The only thing I wanted was to jump,” he’s quoted as saying in his biography by Egon Theiner, “and to jump, and to jump again.” And jump...
But already during his glory years of the 80s, alcohol’s grasp on the sport’s golden boy had earned him a reputation for fights and tantrums off the slopes, not to mention for giving rambling, drunken interviews. Like catchphrases from a favourite comedy sketch show, the pearls of wisdom Nykänen dispensed during his public appearances became known ...
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4 de fev. de 2019 · Biography. Matti Nykänen is the winner of a record four Olympic gold medals for ski jumping, and is still considered one of the greatest ski jumpers ever. At the 1984 Winter Olympics Nykänen won the large hill competition and placed second on the normal hill behind Jens Weißflog, before winning both events in 1988, when he also ...
Matti Ensio Nykänen ( Jyväskylä, 17 de julho de 1963 - 4 de fevereiro de 2019) foi um saltador de esqui finlandês. Ganhou cinco medalhas olímpicas, sendo quatro delas de ouro, nos Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1984 e 1988.
4 de fev. de 2019 · Olympic ski jumping champion Matti Nykanen has died at the age of 55. Known as "The Flying Finn," Nykanen won four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles and 46 individual World Cup ...
