2 questions. *spoilers

2. When eddie reached 61m why did he need to do another one? And when he failed, he got the letter anyway? Didnt get that part.

It was essentially a matter of technicalities. Eddie had to make the distance "in competition", i.e. formally measured by officially-recognized judges - he couldn't just claim to have made the distance in training, for example. The first jump was a practise jump: it didn't count towards his placing in the competition, so Eddie assumed that it wouldn't count towards his Olympic qualification either, and he would therefore have to match or better it in the official competition jump - which he failed to do.

The twist, however, was that the officials formally measured and recorded every jump - both during practise as well as the competition proper (a bit of a joke by the filmmakers on the "German efficiency" stereotype). This meant that when Eddie received the letter stating his competition performance, it listed the 61m practise jump too - so he could use the letter to claim that he'd made the distance "in competition", and therefore done enough to qualify for the Olympic squad.


As an aside, the film consistently misrepresents the ski jumping scoring system for dramatic purposes. In normal competition, a jumper makes two jumps, and placings are determined based on the combined scores for both jumps.
Note also that that's scores and not distances: the distance jumped is converted into points, and that's combined with points awarded by the judges for style (keeping your skis steady during flight, quality of landing, etc.) to give a total score for each jump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_jumping#Scoring_and_rules

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