The alleged manipulation scandal surrounding illegally modified ski jumping suits worn by the Norwegians at the Nordic World Championships in Trondheim is entering the next round. The FIS is launching a commission of inquiry.
09.03.2025, 13:53
09.03.2025, 13:57
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This was announced by the world federation on Sunday.
On Saturday, three Norwegians were disqualified after the World Championships competition on the large hill and normal hill world champion Marius Lindvik lost his silver medal. Fears of systematic cheating by the Norwegian team then shook the ski jumping family.
"The independent ethics and compliance department of the FIS is now investigating the suspicion of illegal manipulation of equipment by the Norwegian team," it said in a statement. The circumstances of the disqualifications of the two ski jumpers Lindvik and Johann André Forfang as well as the combined athlete Jörgen Graabak, who was removed from the bronze medal in the team competition on Friday due to an illegal ski jumping binding, are to be examined in more detail. In addition, the department wants to investigate the circumstances of how the athletes' material was presented at the FIS controls.
Austria, Slovenia and Poland had lodged a protest with the FIS after several secretly recorded videos emerged from the Norwegians' suit tailoring shop, in which, according to many ski jumping experts, it can be seen how suits were manipulated at night in the presence of head coach Magnus Brevig.
