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Or skeleton.
Or speed skating.
I feel like in both events, the regular person would just go at a slow, life-preserving pace. There's no way to ski jump slower.
parachute?
Olympic athletes: does jump, lands, waves to audience and skis off to wait results.
Normal person: visibly nervous when near start of ramp. Shaking. Gentle tears as they line up. Nopes out with open sobs and goes to hug family with a new found perspective on their appreciation of just being alive.
I watched a video of one of the more benign ski jumping videos. Seemed like the first half would be easy, since that's just hitting a ramp. It's the not breaking your knees going up, falling over on the ramp. or landing on your head that's hard. Actually doing a trick is impossible, so I don't even count that against me.
Honestly, I'd settle for a crash test dummy on skis tumbling down the ramp then ragdolling off into the air, like a SuperDave sketch.
I'd accept Eddie the Eagle as our representative.