Comment on the World Cup scandal: “Questions remain open”

Comment on the World Cup scandal: “Questions remain open”

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So now it is festive Johann Andre Forfang and Marius Lindwijk are closed again. You have guilty that you have not worn jump suits in conformity, but without your knowledge of how you continue to emphasize. And the Ski World Association FIS also believes that, as was to be read in the statement for comparison. But that symbolizes this whole saga. Because it continues to feel little urgent and, above all, not round. However, this started with the first investigation report on August 11th. In the context of the videos that only triggered this scandal. Above all, the history of the other three accused athletes, it was clear somewhere that they were acquitted. Because one could be pretty sure that their suits were not manufactured and processed by the same service technician as that of Forfang and Lindvik. Those service technician Adrian Lyvelten continues to wait just as much as Exch head coach Magnus Brevik and his assistant Thomas Lobben. When Robin Petersen, Robert Johansson and Christopher Eriksson syntheal. but have now been officially acquitted. The question remains why were they closed in the first place after they obviously had no guilty? And the process in the Lindwich and Forfang causa is also strange, because at the end of the season their interim lock was lifted. You then started Grand Prix in Kowel on the first summer. Lindig even won there and now they are outside again. The verdict, even if you want to look at it that, is almost salomonic. Three months of lock minus the 18 days that you have already served last winter. This is the toughest punishment in the ski jumping on paper, especially in the competition context. But at the same time it is also very mild. Forfang and Lindvik are no longer allowed to contest international competitions the rest of the summer. This is noticeable, but it is not sensitive. Because the importance of these summer competitions is by far among those that take place in the World Cup. And then they can take part in them from the start of the winter. Your preparation for the Olympic season is therefore a maximum of slightly impaired. This is mainly due to when this lock has now been pronounced. And that is certainly also a tactical move that was chosen there. Because if they had agreed later, they would have missed the first World Cups and possibly even the four -hill tour. That would have been a lot more sensitive. And it would also have been the symbolic power of the lock, which many wanted a possibly subsequently awarded medal for Andreas Wellinger, who would have been the potential profiteer according to Lindau World Cup title on the normal hill, was no longer an issue for Wellinger, who won silver on the normal ski jump. At the same time, it is good like bad news. He does not receive a World Cup title, but as already emphasized elsewhere, he could not have replaced the emotions that he would otherwise have experienced. It is only to be hoped for the sport that with the conclusion of this procedure, the events will be cleaner and fairer, so that in the end you can at least say for something this whole theater was finally good.