The iconic GB Winter Olympics athlete has shared how he had his own secret methods to improve his ski jump distances – following the claims of current athletes injecting their manhoods
Olympic hero Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards has confessed that he tried to improve his ski jumping by farting.
Eddie – real name Michael – admitted that he scoffed baked beans to help him to trump in a barmy bid to boost his medal hopes. The ski jumper, who became the first to represent Great Britain in the sport at the 1988 Winter Olympics, reckoned if he built up gas in his suit he might lift off the ground higher and farther.
It comes a week after it was claimed that current athletes in the same contest have been injecting their manhoods with filler to gain a surface area advantage.
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Eddie, 62, revealed: “Actually I used normal things like baked beans to make me trump. So if I trumped when I took off, that would give me extra. Also, it would fill up with hot air, my jumping suit. So that would be lighter.”
“I was also drinking lots of coffee so my head would be all over the place.
“I would be very keen to go to the top of the jump and fly without my skis if I had too much caffeine.”
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Eddie told BBC Essex that modern ski jumpers injecting their privates are wasting their time.
He added: “It’s a bit of a storm in underpants really. It really won’t make much difference at all.
“It’ll only make probably about two centimetres difference to your ski suit and one mile an hour wind faster down the hill.
“And taking off will give you more benefit than having a jumping suit that’s like one or two centimetres bigger than it normally is.
“It’s part and parcel of competition really just trying to get that extra little bit of an advantage over your competitors.”