Alex Ritson
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Nika Prejoc is only just out of her teens, but she's already won the overall World Cup title for the past two seasons.
And big brother Doman won two gold medals at the most recent world championships.
It's clearly a huge thing for Slovenia, isn't it, the ski jumping?
Andrzej Lanaszczak has won team golds in the last two world championships and he's aiming for an Olympic title.
He says knowing how to crash is just as important as knowing how to fly.
It's a philosophy which has served Slovenian ski jumpers extremely well over decades of competition.
Don't be surprised if you hear their national anthem multiple times at the Winter Olympics.
Our Balkans correspondent, Guy Delaney.
And we finish in Thailand, where an elusive wildcat, long feared extinct, has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting.
Ankur Desai was joined in the studio by Anbarasan Etirajan.
It looks like a domestic cat, but smaller than a domestic one.
But it has got a very round, protruding eyes.
And then the skull is like flat.
So that is why it is called flat-headed cat.
And it lives mostly on peaty swamps and in mangrove forests in Southeast Asia.
The researchers in Thailand have been monitoring for the past two years are using camera traps, basically placing digital cameras in key locations that can be triggered.
Take a photograph as and when an animal crosses the path or any movement in front of it.
So now they have recorded at least 29 of the sightings.
And what is exciting was one of them was even having a baby.
A kitten was there.