End of the scandal not in sight
World Association raises lock against Norway’s ski jumping fraudsters
World Association raises lock against Norway’s ski jumping fraudsters
01.04.2025, 5:23 p.m.
Because of the manipulated suits, five Norwegian ski jumpers are blocked after the World Championships. They can now jump and train again. The preliminary locking of three officials, however, remain. This is not an end to the scandal.
A good three weeks after the suit scandal at the Nordic Ski World Cup, the World Association FIS has lifted the preliminary barriers against five Norwegian ski jumper. Marius Lindvik, Johann Andre Forfang, Robin Pedersen, Kristoffer Sundal and Robert Johansson can therefore take part in training or other competitions again – as long as they are only organized by a national ski association.
According to the FIS, the investigation in the World Cup scandal continues regardless of this. The preliminary locks of three officials of the Norwegian ski jumping team also remain. The World Cup season justified that the five jumpers’ blocks were canceled with the end of the World Cup season in ski jumping. Since last weekend there have been no competitions at the international level, the integrity of which must be protected by the provisional exclusion of Lindvik and Co.
At the world championships in Trondheim, manipulated suits Norwegian ski jumper had caused a fraud scandal at the beginning of March. The World Cup host equipped the suits with a volume banned according to the regulations, which should ensure more stability after the jump. Lindvik and Forfang assured that he knew nothing about what, among other things, the German Andreas Wellinger does not want to believe. The scandal had got rolling after being known to be known, the Norwegian sports director Jan-Erik Aalbu had admitted to the suits. The suits were confiscated by the FIS according to the World Cup and, according to the World Association, should now be subjected to a new technical investigation.
Norway’s Springer had to accept the next disqualification last weekend, almost three weeks after the World Cup scandal. In qualification for the World Cup final in Slovenian Planica, Isak Andreas Langmo was taken out of the rating because of his suit. In addition to the 20 -year -old Norwegian, Tate Frantz from the USA and Slovenia’s youngster Ziga Jancar also got it.
Germany’s top jumper Karl Geiger had recently pleaded for tougher punishments in knowing suit fraud and made parallels for road traffic. “If you drive on Landstrasse 110 instead of 100, nobody says anything. If you drive 120, you have to expect that you can be flashed. If you drive 140, if you get more expensive. If you drive 160, if you go to the fut. “There is a clear difference between a violation of the standard and manipulation. The Norwegians have undermined the rules for their own advantage. They tried to avoid the whole system.”
