Too big suits: Norwegian ski jumper disqualified

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Too big suits: Norwegian ski jumper disqualified

After the World Cup suit scandal at the Norwegian ski jumpers, the World Association FIS has launched changes to the rules. That has now followed.

Chaos start at the Ski jumpers’ summer grand prix: The new reversals introduced after the Norwegian manipulation scandal have led to several disqualifications at the start of the summer season. During the qualification for the opening jumping jumping in the French Cullandel, the Norwegian Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal was excluded from the competition on Saturday.

According to the Norwegian news agency NTB and the newspaper “Dagbladet”, this was due to an excess of too much. Sundal had already been one of the Norwegians who were suspended at the Nordic Ski World Cup in Trondheim after the manipulation on the Norwegian suits had been blown up.

Sundal’s team -mate Benjamin Østvold and several Finnish ski jumper in Couplevel had not received a starter permit in advance, including that because of excessive suits. In a message, Østvold assured that in no way tried to test the boundaries. His suit was just a little too big on the upper arms.

Videos had revealed at the World Cup in March how the Norwegian team illegally worked on the competition suits in the presence of the then head coach Magnus Brevig. The World Cup host equipped the suits with a volume banned according to the regulations, which should ensure more stability after the jump. The world champions Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang were suspended after becoming known, later also Sundal and two other Norwegians.

Lindvik and Forfang denied to have known about the practices. Lindvik in particular came back impressively on the ski jump in Couplevel, where they jumped again for the first time since the World Cup. He won the competition with jumps at 126 meters ahead of Philipp Raimund (121.5/128.5), who shone in the absence of Andreas Wellinger and Karl Geiger.

The World Association FIS has introduced several changes to the rules in response to fraud. An athlete that is disqualified due to an equipment shock now receives a yellow card. Another violation leads to a red card and a lock for the following competition. In addition, the FIS relies on modernized measurements in control and new requirements for the suits. They should offer less space for manipulations.

It remains unclear what consequences the World Cup scandal will have for the Norwegians. The highly expected judgment of the ethics committee used by FIS is to be published next Monday. According to this, those affected should first be informed before the World Association will make a statement, the FIS confirmed a corresponding report by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.