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Simon Ammann
Simon Ammann won four Olympic gold medals in ski jumping across the 2002 and 2010 Winter Games, sweeping both the normal and large hill individual events at each of those two Olympics, a "double-double" achievement unmatched by any other ski jumper in Olympic history. Nicknamed "Harry Potter on skis" by international media for his youthful appearance and glasses during his surprise 2002 breakthrough, Ammann's unexpected rise to Olympic gold as a relatively unknown 20-year-old became one of the most memorable underdog stories of the Salt Lake City Games. His return to identical double-gold dominance eight years later at the 2010 Vancouver Games, after a period of relatively diminished results in between, reflected a level of competitive resilience and technical consistency that few ski jumpers have sustained across such a long career span. His combination of two separate double-gold Olympic sweeps eight years apart has made Ammann one of the most statistically dominant and historically significant ski jumpers ever to compete.
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Matti Nykänen
Matti Nykänen won four Olympic gold medals in ski jumping across the 1984 and 1988 Winter Games, including a clean sweep of all three individual and team events at Calgary in 1988, a level of single-Games dominance that remains unmatched in the sport's Olympic history. His technical mastery of jump distance and style scoring, combined with a fearless approach to the sport's inherently dangerous long-distance jumps, made him the dominant ski jumper of the 1980s and the athlete most credited with popularizing the sport in Finland. Nykänen's turbulent post-competitive life, including struggles with alcohol and several brushes with the law, became a prominent part of his public story in Finland, adding a complicated human dimension to a legacy otherwise defined by unmatched sporting dominance. His combination of his unprecedented four Olympic golds and his complete sweep of the 1988 Calgary events has made Nykänen almost universally regarded as the greatest ski jumper in the sport's history.
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