The World Cup ski jumping from the large hill marks a turning point, says expert Luis Holuch after the scandal on Saturday in Trondheim. Three Norwegian jumpers were disqualified because their suits were manipulated, according to FIS. Now the World Association is obliged to do so in his comment for Sport.de, which can also be seen in the video above.
March 8, 2025 is definitely a black day for the sport of ski jumping. But, and that is part of the truth: it is not a day that comes completely without warning.
With everything that has accumulated in the past few weeks, this is the highest escalation level. It is strikingly reminiscent of the 2022 Olympic Games from Beijing, when the topic of material was also over the sporty headlines.
It is the biggest certificate of poverty for the International Ski jumping association FIS, which, if you are honest, never got the topic properly under control. The first indications had already been at the World Cup last week. The voices have only become louder since then, so that the anonymous videos about the Norwegian ski jumping team and the disqualification of the three athletes (Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal, Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, editor) were simply only the highlight.
Sport is now facing a huge problem: if even actors like national coach Stefan Horngacher can not answer the question of whether they can trust the material controllers, then I don’t want to know how the fan is out there.
Once again, you have to say, it was a very bad advertising for this actually wonderful sport.
This is a work order to FIS race director Sandro Pertile. This should be seen that basics such as compliance with the rules – especially around the topic of material – work instead of fabuling whether it would not be possible or even fantastic to have ski jumping on the Copacabana or Las Vegas. That is his real task.
Sport would have been helped if the basics were right. You should only think about everything else.