Ammann dominating in ski jumping, sunglasses

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With his win on Saturday's large hill, Simon Ammann just set the record for most individual ski jumping gold medals (four) in Olympic history.

He also may have just set a mark for most dominant Olympic shades.

Never mind the fact that they look like sunglasses you might find on a resident of the Del Boca Vista condominiums. The bottom line is they're hilarious, and at this point, if Ammann wants to wear sunglasses that look like they're borrowed from a neighbor of Jerry Seinfeld's fictional parents, frankly he has earned that right.

Sunglasses aside, some additional perspective on what Ammann just accomplished in Whistler:

• As mentioned, with four gold medals, he now has the most individual Olympic titles of any ski jumper in history.

• His four career Olympic ski jumping golds tie Finland's Matti Nykaenen for the most in history (Nykaenen won three individual golds and one gold in the team event).

• His total of four overall medals is one short of Nykaenen's record of five.

• He is the only ski jumper to win both individual events twice, and he won his titles eight years apart.

• No other ski jumper has ever won a second gold in an individual event with a gap of eight or more years between Olympic titles. Ammann has done it twice.

There are probably a couple more notable distinctions to unearth, but for the time being we're a little bit distracted by those shades.

-Matt Stroup