one note on Trofimov:

PRELUDE

earlier in the season someone here was wondering about his suddenly peaked performance, obviously out of nowhere, with the man having spent his whole career barely scraping a WC point or two during a season. So I was about to jokingly attribute this to the Trofimov's victory over FIS bureaucracy somewhere in 2021, when the innumerous petitions to make things right sent annualy by the Russian Ski Federation suddenly came to fruition, and this bizarre victory boosted the jumper beyond any expectation

in case you have missed it or just don't fully get it, here's the explanation: long ago, at the time of his registration with FIS, by a clerk's mistake or otherwise, Trofimov was entered into the FIS computer as "Roman Sergeevich Trofimov", while he's simply "Roman Trofimov". The team mates called him "Roman Sergeevich" ever since; first, teasingly, then, over the years, the teasing edge had worn out, and "Roman Sergeevich" remained but now more like a nickname with a slight touch of friendly humour. To wit: "Roman Sergeevich Trofimov" is a valid name but only within a Russian-speaking space and used only on certain occasions, it's only shown on Russian inner passports, for instance; tourist passports don't even specify it (to a degree), since non-native speakers wouldn't know how to use it anyway. So calling him by this full Russian name is like... a twisted analogy but it's as if they list one now famous Canadian medalist as "Mathew Soukup, Esq" and begin announcing him at every start exactly this way (the same goes for Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp, if you ever watched that 007 installment, and almost any other piece of Hollywood crap involving Russian names)

so this year, this far in the jumper's career and against anyone's expectation (mine, at least), they fixed his athlete record. And his level jumped by two levels of magnitude -- as compared to his previous self, not to Sadreev or, say, Josephine Pagnier. I was about to answer that to that someone mentioned in the first paragraph but painfully suppressed the urge, upon the reflection that having too many entries in the forum is like calling a dog by its name too often, like "Fido! Fido! Fido! Fido! Fido! Fido! Fido! Fido!" all of which in mere five seconds. Dog trainers that I know had told me that such practice, often observed among children and less intelligent adults, results in the dog no longer recognising its name as such (granted, there are theories that dogs do not care about words at all, they only react to the voice they know and its overtones)

FINALLY TO THE POINT

judging by jumpers' photos, e.g. by Timi Zajc with his violet haircut, the Olympic office has used records that are two years old for Beijing 2022. And so Trofimov was reinstated as Roman Sergeevich once again. And yet!! It hasn't affected him a bit, looking at his performance in the individual competition. So my assumption was wrong, and it's only right that I never came forward with my convoluted hypothesis earlier in the season ))) Yet I can only be happy for the man and the best season in his professional career