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Austrian ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig said he felt “extremely stupid” after being disqualified from the men’s large hill individual event for wearing oversized boots.<\/b><\/p>\n
Tschofenig, 23, had comfortably qualified for Saturday’s final but his Winter Olympics medal hopes were dashed due to an error with his kit.<\/p>\n
The 2025 World Cup champion was found to be wearing boots that were four millimetres larger than the rules permitted.<\/p>\n
“I used new shoes in training which, by the way, I wasn’t very happy with, but I kept them,” Tschofenig said.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, I was naive and didn’t measure it. Extremely stupid of me, there was just so much stress going on. But rules are rules.”<\/p>\n
Tschofenig had scored 137.7 in the first round but his rule breach led to an immediate disqualification and handed Slovakia’s Hektor Kapustik a route through to the final.<\/p>\n
Slovenia’s Domen Prevc went on to win gold with Ren Nikaido of Japan taking silver and Poland’s Kacper Tomasiak picking up bronze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n