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to Ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics, 1956, the construction point or K-point of the ski jumping hill was not fixed by the International Ski Federation.Henauer, Kurt (FIS PR and Media Coordinator Ski Jumping). "hill length". E-mail to Chris Miller. 5 June 2006 accessed 26 March 2011. For 1924, it was ; Ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics, 1928: ; Ski jumping at the 1932 Winter Olympics, 1932: ; Ski jumping at the 1936 Winter Olympics, 1936: ; Ski jumping at the 1948 Winter Olympics, 1948: ; Ski jumping at the 1952 Winter Olympics, 1952: ; and 1956: The first ski jump distance that was standardized was at the Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics, 1960 games though it was not measured at the K-point, but at the P-point, which is the landing area of the hill size part of the ski jump area.FIS-Ski.com ''Standards for the Construction of Jumping Hills''.
2008 article accessed 26 March 2011.
At the 1960 Games, this P-point was . A second ski jumping hill was added in Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics, 1964 with a normal hill that had a P-point of in Seefeld while the large hill of was located at Bergsielschanze in Innsbruck. The large hill ski jump P-point was lengthened to for the Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics, 1968 Games at Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte while the ski jump P-point at Autrans remained at . The ski jumping hills remained in separate locations for both the Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics, 1972 and the Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics, 1976 Games though the Bergielschanze hill that was used in 1976 had its P-point lengthened from to . The two hills used would not be combined into one single venue until the Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics, 1980 Games. By the Ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics, 1992 Games, the hills were being referred to by the K-point rather than their P-Point which meant the normal hill P-Point of had a K-point of while the large hill P-point of had a K-point of This standard remained until the Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2002 Games when the hills were then by their Hill size, size (HS) or landing point (L) which is further than the K-point of a normal hill and further than the K-point of a large hill. The first Winter Olympics to use the HS designation was at the Ski jumping at the 2006 Winter Olympics, 2006 Games in Turin. Two of the hills used in the Olympics, Große Olympiaschanze in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for 1936, and Bergiselschanze for the 1964 and 1976 large hill events, have served as hosts for the Four Hills Tournament since the tournament's inception in 1953. Forty-four years later, the Nordic Tournament was created and it involves the 1952 venue at Holmenkollbakken in Oslo's Holmenkollen National Arena and has at times involved the 1994 venue at Lysgårdsbakken in Lillehammer, both in Norway.Nordic Tournament official website.
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