Chang's competitive drive triggered by solitary flight

Chang Xinyue is happy to keep her own company - which goes a long way to explaining why she took up ski jumping.

"I heard this sport was very solitary, so I wanted to try it," Chang said after a weekend training session for the women's normal hill event at Pyeongchang's Alpensia ski jumping center.

Chang took up ice skating at age 8 and later attended a sports school where she trained in short-track speed skating. But she found her true vocation after a suggestion that she might prefer a discipline she was unfamiliar with.