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• Olympic pin trading is as much a part of the Olympics as the sports themselves.
• Olympic pins date back to the first Summer Games in Athens in 1896.
• Everyone from athletes to spectators to journalists all take part in the pin trading tradition.

Also, that bronze medal in ski jumping was nice.

Majestic, artistic and daring.

Sure, these could be adjectives used to describe ski jumping. But they are definitely apt descriptors for the mustache sported by Norwegian ski jumper Robert Johansson.

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• There are tiny green plants at the bottom of the ski jump hill, and they stick out amid the white snow.
• The plants are placed there to help ski jumpers' depth perception.

What time is men’s cross-country skiing on at the Olympics? Plus all the rules, streaming information, listings, and more you need.

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• Some ski jumpers have a unique way of coping with one of the most daunting sports in the Olympics — competing jet-lagged.
• According to one report, some ski jumpers feel they perform better if they're jet-lagged...

Haunted by the memory of her Olympic heartbreak four years ago, Japan's ski jumping superstar Sara Takanashi has a point to prove in Pyeongchang.

Norway's Daniel Andre Tande claimed his first win of the season in Willingen on Saturday in the penultimate World Cup event before the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Slovenian Anze Semenic took advantage of fluctuating wind conditions to claim his maiden World Cup victory in Sunday's night event at Zakopane, as Richard Freitag regained the overall lead.

Kamil Stoch's Poland claimed their first World Cup team win this season with victory over Germany on home snow in Zakopane on Saturday.

Another day, another hill, same result: Kamil Stoch won the second leg of the Four Hills competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Monday, two days after taking the opening round in Oberstdorf.