twenty fourth August 2025
Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang are “keen to simply accept” a 3-month ban in line with the Worldwide Ski & Snowboard Federation, FIS. NEW
The manipulation was to extend the scale of fits that have been pre-approved and microchipped by FIS.
The alterations might be discovered solely by tearing aside the seams of the crotch space on the ski fits.
The Norwegian Ski Federation admitted after the competitors that the group had manipulated the fits, however mentioned the ski jumpers weren’t at fault.
FIS mentioned Lindvik and Forfang, who have been provisionally suspended in March, “weren’t charged with precise information of the manipulations,” however that they “ought to have checked and requested questions in regards to the night-time changes.”
The size of the sanction means each males might compete within the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics subsequent February.
Lindvik will likely be hoping to defend his Olympic massive hill title.
Forfang took gold in the big hill group occasion and regular hill particular person silver on the 2018 Olympics.
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