Planica Nordic Center
Description
Planica Nordic Center is a modern nordic skiing complex with one ski flying hill, seven ski jumping hills and cross-country skiing track in Planica, Slovenia. This is the only nordic center in the world with record eight hills that are all in one place and the only one of this kind with hills of all sizes at one place: small, medium, normal, large and flying hills.
This is a world famous valley where ski flying discipline was born in 1936. It is a place where the most of the ski jumping world records were set on two different hills. Historic first jumps over 100 meters by Sepp Bradl on Bloudkova velikanka and over 200 meters by Toni Nieminen on Letalnica bratov Gorišek has happened. Complex consists of eight hills in function and three abandoned hills. Sigmund Ruud gave Bloudkova velikanka name \"Mammoth Hill\". The whole complex is currently under major renovations. In 2015 it will be finished with total new cross-country skiing track derived through the valley of Planica.
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