The US ski jump team is purposely competing jet-lagged at the Olympics to make flying hundreds of yards in the air less scary

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February 8, 2018 8:49 PM

Ski jumpers sometimes prefer to be foggy before they go 60 miles per hour, launch off a hill, and travel hundreds of yards while 15 feet in the air.

Some ski jumpers have a unique way of coping with one of the most daunting sports in the Olympics — competing jet-lagged.
According to one report, some ski jumpers feel they perform better if they're jet-lagged, therefore tired and not over-thinking their jumps.
The method runs counter to what science suggests about rest and recovery, but some ski jumpers don't want to over-think launching hundreds of yards while 15 feet in the air.

Ski jumping is one of the most daunting sports in the Winter Olympics — scary enough that even the athletes don't want to overthink it.

According to The Wall Street Journal's Ben Cohen, some ski jumpers, including the US team, have a bizarre method for coping with it — arriving jet-lagged.

According to Cohen, the ski jumping schedule leading to Pyeongchang was brutal. There was a competition in Germany on Sunday, athletes arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, then had just one day before qualifiers on Thursday.

And that's the way some ski jumpers like it. According to Cohen, some prefer to be jet-lagged because being mentally foggy makes it a little easier before flying 15 feet in the air for hundreds of yards.

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