Allegations of manipulation in ski jumping: Norway in the eye of the storm!

A scandal shakes the World Ski jumping championship! Recorded video recordings by a Polish journalist show how Norwegian ski jumper suits are manipulated. Specific notes suggest that coach Magnus Brevig and his team take a fis-hipped suit and reproduce in order to then sew it together again. These procedures result in massive protests from Austria, Slovenia and Poland, which endanger the starter permit of the Norwegian athletes for Saturday. Florian Liegl, the sporting director of the ÖSV, commented and found that there were doubts about the compliance with the regular handling of the suits that were used in the decisive competition. As Vol.at reported , these suits have been validated about a test procedure, but now there are serious concerns about possible manipulations, especially since other suits and parts that have not been seen that are not the standards corresponded.

The FIS is criticized because it does not have a specific set of rules in this case. FIS material controller Christian Kathol explained on ORF that opening and re-recessing suits was not uncommon, but the complete frame is critical and is rather rare. "It was obviously done because they needed templates for new suits," said Kathol, showing that the circumstances of the video creation appear extremely questionable. "It already has something-I don't want to say criminal-but something agent-like in himself," he added. Observers report that legendary athletes such as Adam Malysz and Sven Hannawald are concerned about the allegations of manipulation and denounce the loss of trust in sports, such as laola1.at reported . They argue that such processes significantly damage trust in the competition.

The Situation could not only destabilize the competitions, but also the sport as a whole, while the clarification of whether the ski jumpers are actually cheating is in full. The dynamics in the World Cup are still influenced by these allegations, while the athletes and associations are trying to assert themselves in an increasingly tense competitive environment.