Matti Nykänen stood on the hill named after him in his hometown Jyväskylä, looking down into the valley and the past.
"For 20 years I felt a great emptiness in me," he said.
The successes hadn't made him strong.
And the alcohol brought out the bad.
Ski jumping, Matti Nykänen: "Hell is not as bad as my life was"
2021-01-06T11:48:38.317Z
The Finn Matti Nykänen won everything in ski jumping. He was a child prodigy, a giant of his sport. And a tragic figure. An ominous spiral off the jumps cost him his life early.
Source: welt