R.I.P. Matti Nykänen

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The New York Times: Matti Nykanen, the Finnish ski jumping great who soared to unprecedented Olympic glory but struggled with alcohol addiction and personal chaos, died on Monday at the age of 55.
"Matti died last night," his wife Pia Nykanen told Finnish weekly magazine Seiska, without revealing the cause of death.
The 'Flying Finn' won four Olympic gold medals, three of them at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, when he became the first ski jumper to triumph on both the normal and large hill.
His victory on the large hill at the 1984 Sarajevo Games was by a record margin.
The Finn also won five world championship gold medals -- the first as an 18-year-old -- between 1982 to 1989 in a career that made him a sporting superstar and put his personal life on the front pages of newspapers.

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The New York Times: Matti Nykanen, the Finnish ski jumping great who soared to unprecedented Olympic glory but struggled with alcohol addiction and personal chaos, died on Monday at the age of 55.
"Matti died last night," his wife Pia Nykanen told Finnish weekly magazine Seiska, without revealing the cause of death.
The 'Flying Finn' won four Olympic gold medals, three of them at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, when he became the first ski jumper to triumph on both the normal and large hill.
His victory on the large hill at the 1984 Sarajevo Games was by a record margin.
The Finn also won five world championship gold medals -- the first as an 18-year-old -- between 1982 to 1989 in a career that made him a sporting superstar and put his personal life on the front pages of newspapers.