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XVIIth Winter Olymic Games Lillehammmer 1994
Catalogue Number:  26
Stamp Design:  Dušan Nágel
Stamp Engraving:  František Horniak
Date of Issue:  January 26, 1994
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Rotary-recess printing combined with recess printing
Print Run:  7,000,000
FDC Design:  Dušan Nágel
FDC Engraving:  František Horniak
Cancellation Design:  Dušan Nágel
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run:  10,000

Ski-jumps are part of the Winter Olympic games since their beginning in 1924. Until 1956 there took part events one hill, later on so called medium hill (70m) and on a high hill (80 or 90 m). Except individual sportsmanalso results (scores)of teams began to be rated. Ski-jumps are togetther with 15 kilometres ski-runs part of Nordic combination which is an olympic discipline. The first notice about competitions in ski-jumping is from Norway - the craddle of the skiing - of 1808. In Slovakia, there was the first ski-jumping contest in Tatranská Polianka in 1911. The High Tatras were become already twice (in 1935 and 1970) a place of the World Championship in Nordic skiing events, but they are still waiting for the Olympic premiere.

The ski-jumping style was in almost two hundred years considerably changed, especially in the phase of the flying. The pioneer of style "V" is Swede Jan Boklov, this style was fully asserted in Albertville on the winter Olympic games 1992. The jump-leading into "Telemark" is already since many years champion-jumpers proof.


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