'As close as you can get to flying': Norge Ski Club hosts 118th annual ski jump in FoxRiverGrove
The jump, originally scheduled for the last weekend in January, was rescheduled to Saturday and Sunday due to an unseasonably warm January. It is only the second time in the club's 118-year history the ski jump has had to be rescheduled. The other time was in 2017.
The annual two-day event draws thousands to tiny Fox River Grove in northwestern Lake County. Spectators stand at the bottom of the hill, ringing cowbells, sounding air horns and cheering as jumpers soar through the air. "People ask if we're nervous," said David Fuller, whose 21-year-old son Jacob began ski jumping seven years ago.
The 7-year-old from Carpentersville started ski jumping at the age of 6. "They like to go faster and higher," the girls' mother, Stacey Sault, said. The twins said they hope to one day compete in the Olympics together.
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