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Austria’s Daniel Tschofenig after the men’s large hill individual first round at the Winter Olympics on Saturday. Photo: Tom Weller\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Austrian ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig dubbed himself \u201cextremely stupid\u201d after being disqualified from the ongoing Winter Olympics due to oversized boots.<\/p>\n
Competing in the men\u2019s large hill individual event, Tschofenig had cruised through qualification and into the final \u2013 where he was fancied to pick up his first Olympic medal.<\/p>\n
However, a kit error cost him dearly as he was found to be wearing boots four millimetres larger than the limit permitted in ski jumping, causing a disqualification.<\/p>\n
The Austrian was understandably frustrated at his own carelessness but had no complaints about the ruling.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used new shoes in training which, by the way, I wasn\u2019t very happy with, but I kept them,\u201d Tschofenig said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, I was naive and didn\u2019t measure it. Extremely stupid of me, there was just so much stress going on. But rules are rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old was among the medal favourites after a stellar 2024-25 World Cup campaign where he won eight events to claim the overall World Cup title and also triumphed in the prestigious Four Hills Tournament.<\/p>\n
He also won the first World Cup event of the new season and was hopeful of becoming an Olympic medallist in his first games.<\/p>\n
Tschofenig scored 137.7 in the first round of qualification to book a place in the large hill final but his boots caused an immediate disqualification and Slovakia\u2019s Hektor Kapustik took his place instead.<\/p>\n
The final ultimately saw Slovenia\u2019s Domen Prevc win gold with Ren Nikaido of Japan taking silver and Poland\u2019s Kacper Tomasiak picking up bronze.<\/p>\n
Tschofenig\u2019s disqualification is the latest bizarre tale in ski jumping at the Milano-Cortina Olympics after reports emerged early in the Games claiming male ski jumpers were injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid before being measured for their suits to improve sporting performance.<\/p>\n
And, on Sunday, American ski jumper Annika Belshaw was disqualified from the women\u2019s large hill individual event because her skis were more than one centimetre too long. Like Tschofenig, the 23-year-old had qualified for the final but was kicked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austria’s Daniel Tschofenig after the men’s large hill individual first round at the Winter Olympics on Saturday. Photo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,23196],"class_list":{"0":"post-302371","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","14":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}