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Female Ski Jumping on the Rise

Selina Freitag is a ski jumper and one of Germany's up-and-coming talents. She is from a ski jumping family and was already careering off hills by the age of six. But what does it take to be a ski jumper and what goes through her head? Sports Life travelled to the 20-year-old’s home region of Klingenthal to find out what it’s like to prepare to jump and fly over 100 meters through the air.

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