The 24th Winter Olympic Games will kick off in Beijing on February 4, 2022.

The Sports Department of Chinanews.com launched a series of columns "Hundred Questions about Winter Olympics", aimed at popularizing Winter Olympic knowledge, answering hot questions, sharing interesting stories about ice and snow, and helping everyone have a better watching experience during the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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　　In the Summer Olympics, there is a legend of "not old" like Chusovkina who has played many times.

In the world of ice and snow, there are similar celebrities.

　　As the evergreen tree of ski jumping, Kasai Kiaki is known as a "legend" in Japan.

From the Albertville Winter Olympics in 1992 to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, Noriake Kasai has participated in the Winter Olympics for 8 consecutive times. He has also become the athlete with the most number of entries in the history of the Winter Olympics, surpassing the previous one by Rudderless. Bobsleigh rider Albert Demchenko set a record of 7 participations in the Winter Olympics.

　　Kasai Kiaki was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1972. When he was very young, he began to practice ski jumping.

Data map: Kasai Jiaki in the game.

Image source: All Sports Media.

　　Kasai Kiaki, who quickly emerged, represented the Japanese team in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France at the age of 19 and became a rising star in Japan's ski jumping industry.

　　In the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the ski jumping team competition and the silver medal in the men's event.

　　Since 1998, he won 17 World Cup individual gold medals.

At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, he won the 8th place in the standard with a total score of 255.2 points. He and his teammates won the silver medal in the ski jumping team event. He was listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest ski jumping medalist in the Winter Olympics.

　　On May 6, 2020, Noriaki Kasai received the Guinness World Records certificate again, proving that he has expanded his personal record for participating in the International Ski Federation World Cup ski jumping competition to 569.

Kasai Jiaki, who is nearly 50 years old, said in the video: "I will continue to work hard and hope to break the record again." (Liu Xingchen)