Austrian ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig said he felt “extremely stupid” after being disqualified from the men’s large hill individual event for wearing oversized boots.<\/p>\n
Tschofenig, 23, had comfortably qualified for Saturday’s final but his Winter Olympics medal hopes were dashed due to an error with his kit.<\/p>\n
The 2025 World Cup champion was found to be wearing boots that were four millimetres larger than the rules permitted.<\/p>\n
“I used new shoes in training which, by the way, I wasn’t very happy with, but I kept them,” Tschofenig said.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, I was naive and didn’t measure it. Extremely stupid of me, there was just so much stress going on. But rules are rules.”<\/p>\n
Tschofenig had scored 137.7 in the first round but his rule breach led to an immediate disqualification and handed Slovakia’s Hektor Kapustik a route through to the final.<\/p>\n
Slovenia’s Domen Prevc went on to win gold with Ren Nikaido of Japan taking silver and Poland’s Kacper Tomasiak picking up bronze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austrian ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig said he felt “extremely stupid” after being disqualified from the men’s large hill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-478697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}