Geneva – Theft in baseball. Match fixing in football. Doping allegations in swimming. Now ski jumping has its own scam.
Cheating by the Norway team officials manipulating in a ski suit has shaken a national reputation to play impartially in their home Nordic World Championships and to high -minded principles, where the hosts dominated the medal table.
Two Olympic gold medalists, Marius Lindwick and Johan Andre Forfang, were disqualified from a large hill program in Tronhem, when Lindwick increased to become world champions on the normal hill.
Although the two athletes were stressed by the Norwegian team that they did not know anything about the transported ski suit, their head coach and equipment manager confessed and suspended.
The scam has shocked the Ski Jumping World, questioning how broad this practice is, and stood for honesty in Norway’s game.
Whatever has emerged, it involves manipulating the team officials in pre-analog and microchipped suit, so that the athletes can be improved to help their shapes to fly forward.
The footage was secretly filmed from behind a curtain, then sent to international media by a whistle blower. An International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) official said that illegal changes were later confirmed by tearing the seams of the crotch area on the Norwegian ski suit.
The scam has surfaced in Norway, which always scores high in the Anti-Corruption Index of Transparency International, which ranks fifth in the most recent global rankings.
The Norwegian Sports officials led the controversial issues in 2022 after hosting Russian athletes after Ukraine’s complete invasion and challenging the Football World Cup hosts Qatar on human rights.
The same Norwegian Ski Federation that helped push FIS to exclude Russians three years ago, now finds its employees and star athletes under an investigation by the governing body of Switzerland.
Its general secretary Mitchell Vione said in a statement on Tuesday, “The only thing that matters to FIS is to leave the process.
Athletes and officials around the world hurt and disappoint Tronham on Sunday, Sandro Partile, an FIS race director for men’s ski jumping, told Associated Press in an interview.
“Norway is a country that we all know as a leader in human rights, equality, integration. I can’t believe that there is a (deception) system, “Partile said in an online call on Tuesday, suggesting that” some individuals who had actually gone far from the border. ,
If the infection looked vague and technical for non-recommenders, the violation of faith was serious: “This action was somehow killing our principles, our style, our happiness for our discipline,” said Partelle.
The Norwegian Federation worked when FIS officials found evidence, which proved what the secret footage alleged, and a formal protests from Austria, Slovenia and Poland.
Norway’s men’s head coach Magnus Brewing and Equipment Manager Adrian Livelten admitted that he had cheated, although on only one occasion, ahead of the big hill event held on Saturday.
“We regret it like dogs, and I am very sorry that it happened,” Brewig said. “I really have nothing else, besides we took it to our bubbles.”
Livelten apologized for cheating “sponsors, jumping families and Norwegians” with disqualified athletes, saying he said “was completely unacceptable”.
“It was a high -level manipulation,” race director Partile said about the Norwegian works that were “the worst” in their five years in the job. “We destroyed the suit to be able to find this adjustment.”
The Italian officer said that after the competition, the changes were not detected and only detected by the eyes by examining the seams of the crotch area of the ski suit.
Additional material was inserted in the same color that was increased to weight and helped to reduce the material between an athlete’s legs as they ran to the flight phase. The more surface area collides with the air helps add to the flight time, the pertile said.
The FIS had earlier stated that 5% of the larger surface area of a suit helps an athlete to fly further, although the exact distance has been added, not known, Paretyl said.
FIS has a comprehensive 11-page document of rules for measuring and verification of ski jumpers suits during the season. Many RFID chips are attached and noted on a FIS register, after which a suit should not be replaced. Any attempt to remove the chip should make the suit disqualify and chips are deactivated.
A suit is allowed in the World Cup events and two for a World Championship or Winter Olympics, although just one of each competition is used.
FIS investigators now want to closely inspect all the Norwegian team suits of men and women’s ski and women’s ski at the World Championships.
Lindwick’s gold medal in Normal Hill can certainly be seen, although it is not clear how far an inquiry can reach the results of World Cup events in this season or ahead of previous sessions. Lindwick was the Olympic champion at Large Hill at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
Ski Jumping World Cup season continues for three more weekends, which begins in Oslo on Thursday.
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