Athlete disqualified
After the suit scandal: Again suspicion against Norway’s ski jumpers
December 31, 2025 – 9:08 p.mReading time: 1 min.
Is there a risk of the next scandal in ski jumping? Inspectors make a suspicious discovery on a ski jumper. Norway is again in focus.
Almost ten months after the suit scandal at the World Cup in Trondheim, Norway’s ski jumping team has to put up with unpleasant questions again. Anna Odine Ström, who won gold in the team and mixed doubles at the home World Championships, was disqualified on Wednesday from the first competition of the “Two Nights Tour” in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The 27-year-old had a second sole discovered – in her sock.
As the world association FIS announced, Ström, who came third in the World Cup, was checked after the competition in which she finished eleventh. According to media reports, the investigation took an unusually long time of 40 minutes. An additional sole in the jumping shoe is prohibited according to FIS regulations. The fact that Ström did not wear them openly in her shoe but instead put them in her socks raises questions.
A top Norwegian athlete was also disqualified in the men’s qualification in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Wednesday. The trouser leg of Halvor Egner Granerud’s suit was two millimeters too long. Granerud was not involved in the suit scandal in Trondheim, when the Norwegians had irregularly sewn the clothes of several jumpers – he was missing injured. Norway’s women also remained unburdened at the time.