With the gold medal he has been waiting for his entire career at stake, Akito Watabe went all in to win the Nordic combined large hill 10-km final.
"I was speaking with (coach Takanori Kono) and we were saying that if we want to win a gold medal, we'd have to do something different, something the others couldn't predict," Watabe said after finishing fifth Tuesday.
"Otherwise we wouldn't stand a chance. So I started driving up the pace from where no one would expect, towards the back of the course on the first lap.