Simply explained, this'll is Tom during the Christmas break.

He usually goes away with his parents on vacation somewhere nice and heart.

But this year, Tom's dad has toe work.

Tom is bored, that is, until he comes across the broadcast of a sports event he's never heard of before the Four Hills tournament.

He does some research and finds out that the Four Hills tournament is the most important annual event in the calendar for ski jumpers.

In ski jumping, the athletes starts at the top of a takeoff ramp on descends on skis.

They jump from the table at the end.

After the flight phase comes the landing, the aim is to fly as far as possible.

Hey, ski jumping competition consists of a qualification jump on the competition.

With two rounds that is two jumps.

The ski jumper is awarded points after every jump.

These are a combination of the distance on the score from a five person jury.

The jury looks a tstyle on landing.

The highest and lowest performance marks are canceled out.

Whoever has the most points after two jumps is the winner.

Tom realizes that the Four Hills tournament is something very special.

The tournament has been held every year since 1953 between December the 29th.

On January the sixth.

It always takes place at the same for ski jumps in Germany and Austria, almost off then Garmisch Partenkirchen, then Innsbruck and Bischofshofen in Austria.

The points from all four competitions are added together on the person with the most points of the end is the tournament champion.

For the athletes, this is a special kind of challenge as they only have a very short time to get ready for each of the different jumps.

Victory in all four individual contest.

The Grand Slam is so difficult to win that so far only one athlete span Hannah vault has succeeded in achieving this.

Come on, winning this tournament is considered as important as winning the World Championship or the Winter Olympics.

This is why it attracts such large audiences and high levels of media attention on something else is different.

The knockout system, the top 50 athletes from the qualification round compete directly against one another, the 50th against the first, the 49th against the second, and so on.

Whoever wins their Jewell, along with the five best losers.

The lucky losers qualify for the second round, where it's all about winning toe win in 1953 you would have had to jump around 80 m every time.

Today the skiers jump over 130 m.

The top winner is the finish athlete Yana Alunan.

With five overall victories, it's time for the tournament to start.

Tom certainly won't be bored this vacation.