Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards made history at the 1988 Winter Olympics in more ways than one after soaring into the hearts of a nation. The 62-year-old became the first athlete to ...

Ski jumper Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards tells his story of how he made the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympic Games less than two years after starting in the sport.

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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 ...

GLOUCESTER, England (AP) — Waiting in the wings on opening night of “Beauty and the Beast,” Michael Edwards felt the nerve-wracking jitters he experienced four decades earlier staring through thick ...

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 ...