{"id":300593,"date":"2026-02-20T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300593\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:13:11","slug":"japans-ski-jumpers-express-mixed-feelings-about-super-team-format-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300593\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s ski jumpers express mixed feelings about super team format at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    PREDAZZO, Italy \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>The debut of the men&#8217;s \u2060super team ski jumping event at the Milano Cortina Olympics has prompted mixed emotions among the Japanese athletes, with some questioning whether the format truly belongs on the sport\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which features two jumpers per nation \u200btaking multiple rounds, was introduced as a fresh addition to \u200cthe Olympic \u200cprogram. But its structure, particularly after heavy snowfall forced \u200bofficials to end the competition early and revert to earlier standings, has divided opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s Jan Hoerl and Stephan Embacher took gold in a \u2060chaotic race where the third round of jumps was canceled and the result \u2060of the two first rounds decided the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PREDAZZO, Italy \u2013 The debut of the men&#8217;s \u2060super team ski jumping event at the Milano Cortina Olympics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[147918,85,46,151702,151701,105,92300],"class_list":{"0":"post-300593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2026-milano-cortina-olympics","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-ren-nikaido","12":"tag-ryoyu-kobayashi","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-team-japan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}