eleventh August 2025
Two Norwegian ski jumpers and three workforce officers have been charged following allegations of tampering with their ski fits. NEW
The Olympic medallists Marius Lindvik, 27, and Johann Andre Forfang, 30, have been charged with tools manipulation within the males’s giant hill occasion on the World Ski Championships in Trondheim in Norway final March.
The then head coach Magnus Brevik, assistant coach Thomas Lobben and repair workers member Adrian Livelten have additionally been charged following an investigation by the Worldwide Ski Federation, FIS.
We reported on the incident on the time on PlanetSKI:
Lindvik received gold within the males’s giant hill particular person on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, whereas Forfang took a silver medal on the 2018 Video games in Pyeongchang within the regular hill particular person.
It’s alleged that strengthened thread was added to the jumpsuits of Lindvik and Forfang on the World Ski Championships.
Lindvikhad initially got here second within the males’s giant hill occasion whereas Forfang completed fourth.
They had been disqualified after an tools inspection.
FIS has not stated when its ethics committee would challenge a ruling, with the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina beginning in February.
“We have now listened to our athletes and imagine them once they say they didn’t know concerning the manipulation of the ski fits,” stated the pinnacle of the Norwegian ski leaping workforce, Jan-Erik Aalbu.
“There isn’t a proof that they had been conscious of the manipulation that befell.
“We due to this fact disagree with FIS’s evaluation that there are grounds to convey a case in opposition to Forfang and Lindvik, however we respect the method.”
The FIS didn’t say when its ethics committee would challenge a ruling.
The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics takes place subsequent February.
Ski Leaping. Picture c/o PlanetSKI
The primary occasion of the 2025-26 season, a summer season Grand Prix occasion on a synthetic floor in Courchevel in France, befell final weekend.
Six male ski jumpers had been disqualified due to swimsuit points resembling waist dimension and three extra weren’t permitted to start out.
One other jumper from Japan was blocked from competing.
FIS stated in an announcement that it’s treating the spate of disqualifications because the pure results of tightening up the principles after the Norwegian swimsuit scandal.
The FIS race director, Sandro Pertile, stated he doesn’t suppose anybody was attempting to cheat and that fewer disqualifications will happen as groups get used to the principles.
Making specialised ski leaping tools is “a reasonably difficult matter,” he stated.
FIS stated it’ll stay rigorous in its checks by the Olympic season.
“The groups know that they’ve our full help, and we count on the variety of disqualifications to lower considerably within the coming weeks,” Pertile added.
“With that stated, we’ll stay strict and exact with tools examine the entire season lengthy.
“There isn’t a room for exceptions.”
In separate information the FIS Ski Leaping World Cup occasion scheduled to happen in Lake Placid, USA, this December has been cancelled and relocated to Klingenthal in Germany.
The Olympic Leaping Complicated at Lake Placid wants surprising and in depth repairs.
The occasion was to be the one North American cease on the 2025-2026 World Cup.
A current inspection revealed harm to the metal helps of the remark deck on the HS128 Massive Hill.
Whereas the soar itself stays structurally sound the required restore work will block the route athletes use to entry the highest of the run.
“The Olympic Authority stays absolutely dedicated to ski leaping in Lake Placid and to sustaining world-class amenities that meet the very best requirements of worldwide competitors,” stated Darcy Norfolk Rowe, ORDA’s Communications Director.
“Whereas relocating this 12 months’s World Cup is a tough however essential choice, we look ahead to finishing these enhancements and welcoming the world again to future World Cup occasions after development.”
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