Chaos in ski jumping
Suit scandal: Norway suspends head coach
Updated on 10.03.2025 – 5:14 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The scandal around manipulated suits in ski jumping continues to circles. There are now consequences in the Norwegian team.
Norway’s ski association reacted to the suit scandal at the home World Cup in Trondheim and suspended head coach Magnus Brevig and service technician Adrian Lively. The former Slovenian World Cupser Bine Norčič, assistant coach of the Norwegians since 2022, assumes responsibility for the time being.
On Saturday the scandal got rolling after being known for stressful video recordings, and the Norwegian sports director Jan-Erik Aalbu admitted fraud on Sunday. He and the affected Norwegian jumpers around Marius Lindvik, world champion of the normal hill, were not informed about the manipulation of the jump suits, he emphasized. Aalbu expressly pronounced trust by the association on Monday.
The information about the incidents that have appeared so far are “so serious that they were a reason for suspending the employment relationship” with Brevig and Liveled, the Norwegian association said in a press release: “We take this matter very seriously and believe that the equipment of the regulations of the FIS (skiing association, editor) was deliberately manipulated in an advantage in To get competition. “
So far, it has been “cleared that Brevig and on Friday evening have decided to sew an additional – and stiffer – thread into the suits of Johann Andre Forfang and Marius Lindvik,” said the association. There is currently no overview of possible further actions.
He supported the demand of the ski jumping committee “fully and therefore decided to suspend brevig and lively according to the provisions of the Labor Environment Act with immediate effect,” says the incumbent general secretary of the Norwegian ski association, Ola Keul. Both Brevig and Livelten would have agreed to the decision. This means that “until further notice” they will not work for the Norwegian Ski Association. After the investigation of the association and the FIS, “a final statement” will be submitted to Brevig and Livelten.