Despite the incredible speed and distance ski jumpers hit in the air, ski jumping is not among the most injury-prone sports in the Winter Olympics. Hockey, alpine skiing, snowboarding, and freestyle skiing top that list. Still, crashes in ski jumping can be extremely dramatic, even if they don’t end in serious injury.
This wipeout was captured on camera at the Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, which hosted the Winter Olympics back in 1952. According to the comments, the crash was that of U.S. Nordic Combined athlete Carter Brubaker and despite the wipeout he was doing just fine.
Holmenkollen was first used for ski jumping in the late 1800s, but it’s been rebuilt on multiple occasions. 1,000 metric tons of steel makes up the current jump, raising about 60 meters, or around 197 feet, into the air. The modern jump was opened for the World Championships in 2011.
