PREDAZZO, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The opening days of the Milano Cortina Olympics resulted in disappointing finishes for the Prevc siblings and Slovenia, a nation deeply rooted in ski jumping, and they will now look to Tuesday's mixed team event for redemption.
Nika Prevc, seen as a gold medal contender for the normal hill, settled for silver behind Norway's Anne Odine Stroem in the first ski jumping competition of the Games.
A bigger surprise came from her older brother Domen, whose sixth-place finish in the normal hill two days later was one of the most unexpected results of the competition so far.
Now the siblings will try to turn things around together and deliver gold for their country.
"The Olympics are where you want to show your best, and I am going to give everything I have," Nika, 20, said after the normal hill competition on Saturday, admitting to frustration over not fully living up to expectations.
Domen was also focused on what lies ahead after his normal hill performance fellshort.
"I just want to perform even better tomorrow," he told Reuters after that competition.
Despite a start that fell short of ambitions, Slovenia remain among the favourites for the mixed team event, where two men and two women compete on the normal hill.
(Reporting by Tommy Lund and Liz Hampton in Predazzo, Italy; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
