One day after the known Norwegian manipulations on the suits of their ski jumper at the Nordic Ski World Cup, the athletes are at a loss: DSV-Adler Andreas Wellinger also wonders: Would you have been more in the World Cup if everything had expired with right things?
The confidence of the ski jumpers in their sport was shaken by the Großchanze on Saturday after the World Cup competition. Many athletes wonder whether the suits of the Norwegian jumpers were manipulated earlier – and just remained undetected.
“What happened yesterday has a very bland aftertaste,” said German ski jumper Andreas Wellinger in a video contribution on Instagram. For the sport of ski jumping, the fraud revealed on Saturday was “not good at all”. The manipulations would “raise a lot of questions, even with me”.
The 29-year-old wonders: “What would have been at the other competitions where I was very close, or we were very close as a team?
Norwegians in the mixed competition in front of Germany
On the normal ski jump, Wellinger had brought silver behind the Norwegian Marius Lindvik, who was disqualified by a manipulated suit after the large hill competition. His medal was “not to be expected”, he was correspondingly happy despite the tightening scandal about his own performance. Because he was also able to “perform very well on the Großchanzen. Summa Summarum worked a lot.”
With the team and the mixed team, the Olympic champion had become fourth – Norway was also in front of him with Lindvik and the also disqualified Johann André Forfang. If the Norwegians have manipulated there, Wellinger would have missed a gold and two bronze medals.
On Sunday afternoon, Norwegian sports director Jan Erik Aalbu openly admitted the fraud of his team.