At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Noriaki Kasai of Japan became the first athlete to ...?

Question

In 2011 it was decided that the 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, would be held where?

Answer 1

Participate in eight Winter Olympics
He took part in the ski jumping qualification the day before the opening of the Games. His previous Olympic participation scored a silver medal in 1994, and silver and a bronze in 2014 at which point he became the oldest ski jumper to earn an Olympic medal. A ski jump of 253.5 m, the world record, had already been recorded (in 2017).