When learning to ski in the Italian Alps,Michael ‘Eddie the Eagle’ Edwards had no idea it would lead to Olympic stardom – or a current Hollywood biopicI learned to ski at 13 on a school trip to Italy. Then I skied on dry slopes at the Gloucester Ski and Snowboard Centre for the next four years. When I left school at 17 I got a job in Colle di Tenda in Italy, right on the French border in Limone-Piemonte, and working for a company that took school trips there.
I got to know every square inch of the resort,both on and off piste. There was one run I really loved – a straight red with a blue run zigzagging across it. At the top I would do my Walkman on with something like Jump by Van Halen (the song features when I’m ski jumping in the film). Then I’d set off and where the blue hit the red, I would capture off and recede flying through the air, and jumping at least 40 metres,possibly even 50, then land and carry on down the red.
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Source: theguardian.com