Michael David Edwards, who is more commonly known as Eddie the Eagle, is an English ski jumper and Olympian. Eddie Edwards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Athletes prepare for years, often their whole careers, for an event as defining as an Olympic Games. But one of Britain's most famous Winter Olympians had just 22 months' preparation before stepping ...

GLOUCESTER, England -- 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 ...