From a cult hero ski jumper, to African bobsleigh pioneers and more, here are half a dozen unexpected heroes ...

Although not as an athlete, drywaller turned inept Olympic ski jumper Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards made a triumphant return to the winter games spotlight this week. Eddie, whose lack of skills helped him ...

Michael Edwards, famously known as “Eddie the Eagle,” has transitioned from Olympic ski jumper to small-time actor as he expands his repertoire. Edwards, who became Britain’s first Olympic ski jumper ...

A quarter century ago British plasterer-turned-ski jumper Michael Edwards made a name for himself—Eddie the Eagle—by not skiing or jumping very well at the Winter Olympics in Calgary. Short on talent ...

Michael Edwards, better known to the world as "Eddie the Eagle", recently found himself battling a familiar, yet distinctly different, kind of pre-performance anxiety. Not the bone-shattering fear of ...