Which British TV series featured "Eddie the Eagle," a British skier who in 1988 became the first competitor since 1929 to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping?
The Jump The Jump is a British television series that follows celebrities as they try to master various winter sports including skeleton, bobsleigh, snowskates, ski cross, and giant slalom. Davina McCall and Alex Brooker presented the first series, with McCall returning for future series. Brooker did not return for future series however. Winter Olympic skier Graham Bell and skeleton gold medallist Amy Williams put the celebrities through training in the UK and Austria. Britain's first Olympic ski jumper, Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, appears live on the show to demonstrate the ski jump.
Mike Dixon (biathlete) Staff Sergeant Michael Dixon (born 21 November 1962), is a combat engineer in the British Armed Forces who has represented Great Britain at six Olympic Games in cross-country skiing and biathlon. He is only the seventh athlete from any country to have competed at six Winter Games and is one of fewer than fifty athletes to have competed in at least six Olympic Games.