Sapporo Olympic Museum
Winter sports museum at a working Olympic ski jump, with simulators letting visitors feel the launch.
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This guide to the Sapporo Olympic Museum, built at the Okurayama ski jump, starts high on the takeoff ramp a nineteen-year-old car mechanic from Poland climbed on February 11, 1972. It follows Wojciech Fortuna through a gusting, unpredictable wind that a Norwegian report later called unfair, and a jump nobody expected him to pull off. You'll hear about a simulator inside that recreates the drop underfoot. Just down the hill at Miyanomori, three Japanese jumpers were making history of their own that same week.
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