According to the long-time national coach Werner Schuster, the current fraud affair triggered by Norwegian suit cheating is a new escalation level of the material scaffolding in ski jumping.
“You look at it. One might suspect that the competition is expanding the rules that you don’t want to stay behind and see that you come with you. But it was always crucial to trust in the FIS and the control system, the belief that a consensus, ultimately equal opportunities, was now made.
Norwegian ski jumpers had used illegal suits at the home World Cup in Trondheim. First the top stars Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, then three other athletes and several staff members have therefore been disqualified by the FIS.
Statements by the jumper that they knew nothing about the manipulation of their suits, Schuster described as “unbelievable”.
Also the Norwegian explanation that the cheating was an individual case, Schuster wiped off the table: “It lacks any logic that you only do it in one day – and only with two athletes. Lindvik had already become world champion (on the normal ski jump, editor’s note), the Norwegians had won the mixed competition and then got a medal in the team. Of course, I can’t take the opposite. “
The truth only comes to light “,” criticized Schuster. “The Norwegian association says that it cooperates with the FIS, but it is going slowly because you had the impression that they only admitted what you can prove to them 100 %.”
Sewing the suits by the Norwegians described Schuster as “incredibly clever”, but it was forbidden. “The measure has caused control to exist – and nevertheless increase the flight area.”
Ski jumping: “Regular violation may no longer be a cavalier offense”
According to Schuster, ski jumping now needs far -reaching measures. “The structures of the FIS may have been getting a little old,” he said.
The trainer icon promoted to give the material committee “more throughout the punch, similar to the technical commission in Formula 1.”
According to Schuster’s view, the Commission has to look: “What is good for ski jumping? You have to adapt the structures of the development of a sport. And make this sport sustainable.” A sanction catalog was also needed. “Because even a violation of a rule may no longer be a cavalier offense.”