“Not the same as in cases before”
Scandal is expanding: three more ski jumper suspended
13.03.2025 – 5:17 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
More and more things come to light. After the fraud of the Norwegian ski jumpers, three other athletes were suspended.
After the ski jumping scandal of the Norwegians and the admitted fraud, a reinforced seam and the first suspenders by the World Association (FIS), this has now taken further consequences. Three other Norwegian ski jumpers were suspended due to acute suspicions. The athletes are the former ski flight world recorder Robert Johansson, the World Cup seventh Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Robin Pedersen.
FIS race director Sandro Pertile explained at a press conference on Thursday: “We found something else, not the same as in the cases before.” As the FIS continued, all suits of the Norwegian team used in the World Cup jumping competitions in Trondheim were secured and examined. There were abnormalities among the athletes mentioned. However, nothing was found among the jumpers and the combiners.
The FIS had already suspended the two Springer Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, disqualified on Saturday. Norway’s sports director Jan Erik Aalbu had already granted manipulations on the suits of Lindvik and Forfang, but emphasized that this was only done by the Großchanze in the last competition and without the knowledge of the affected jumpers.
However, the former German top performer Severin Freund cannot believe this. He explained in an interview with T-Online (his demands read here): “Lindvik and forfang are not no-names. We have to deal with people who are already Olympic champions in the case of Lindvik. Athletes who know what is very good material. And they also know that if something is different.
In addition, the 2014 team Olympic champion explained: “If you look at the fraud video, then you don’t have the impression that work is hectic. You have the feeling that this happens very routinely, that everyone is sitting and that you know what you do. But that would not be the case if a suit is sewn for the first time.” The four-time four-hill tour winner Jens Weißflog also said in an interview with T-Online (read this one here) that it was “barely understandable” that the jumper hadn’t known about the suit changes.