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Related: Eddie the Eagle review: plucky no-hope ski-jumper melts hearts There was always something heroic about Edwards.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2016

Two new lower-budget pictures will vie for moviegoers' attention — Fox's ski-jumper dramedy "Eddie the Eagle" and Open Road Films' crime thriller "Triple 9."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2016

Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards was a plasterer who trained to be a ski-jumper, coming last in both events he entered at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

From BBC • May 11, 2011

Mr Cameron, who has reportedly been attempting to appear less overbearing in the Commons, likened his opponent to ski-jumper Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards.

From BBC • May 11, 2011

His well-distributed 190-lb. frame enabled him to win fame as a track star and ski-jumper when he left Tahiti to go to school at Neuchatel, Switzerland.

From Time Magazine Archive