Following the Nordic Ski Championships in the Nordic Ski Championships, the Norwegian ski team has been spoken by the Härski scam at the men’s Greater Hill. Originally ranked second and fifth Marius Lindvik mixed Johann Andre Forfang Disabled because of illegal jumping dresses.
The International Ski Association FIS carried out a superficial inspection before qualifying. The inspectors who carried out the procedure did not find anything strange and let the athletes in question.
However, there was no issue, as a video spread during the race in international media showing how a Norwegian costume manufacturer Adrian live Edit a suit for head coach Magnus Breivik As you observe the situation next door.
A stiffening tape was sewn inside the suit seams. The mechanism to improve the connection of the suit is prohibited.
Austria, Poland and Slovenian ski teams made it into the process. However, it was crushed by FIS after the first round. At about the same time in Austria, the TV channel, which spectacular TV, released the scam to reveal the video in his broadcast.
About ten minutes after the end of the race, the medal trio were renewed when Lindvik, originally second, was rejected, like his compatriot Forfang. The same fate experienced Kristoffer Sundall Eriksen in the first round.
FIS has begun an investigation into the incident, which is expected to tell on Wednesday.
“Shock”
Finnish national team jumper and Trondheim himself competed Julia Kykkänen says that the Norwegian scam attempt was a shock. An experienced jumper reminds us that the legality of the downhill costumes has been shown in international ski jumping for years.
– This is not a new thing, but it stumbles here that there are ruthlessly violating rules that have been forbidden for years and for a reason.
– We were amazed at what happened. Hopefully the rules will be clearer in the future, well in the World Cup well Antti Aalto notes.
At this stage, Aalto cannot say what changes they would be and how they would work in practice.
FIS’s ski jumping leader Sandro Pertile defended the organization’s activities at the Suurmäki race on Saturday.
– We checked the costumes as soon as the Norwegians arrived at the race site, an hour before the qualifying start. We checked the costumes of each four athletes. There was nothing visible in them that would be irregular.
– The costumes had been manipulated so skillfully that finding the breaches required the breakdown of the costumes, Pertile told Sports on Monday.
Kykkänen shares Ahonen’s view
Sports Ski Jumping Specialist and Simply Sew Janne Ahonen did not swallow Pertile’s claims that it was difficult to find breach.
According to the Finnish ski jumping legend, the scam would have been revealed immediately with a strict more deeper check.
– In no case does such explanations go through. When I take a ski jumping suit and turn it upwards, all I have to do is capture the seam on each side of the fabric and stretch. You can immediately see if there is something in between, Ahonen rolled.
Kykkänen is on the same line as Ahonen.
– If you really want to look a little more closely. Not only is the athlete standing there and the suit goes through it.
The common line is missing
Kykkänen tells about his own findings in FIS’s equipment control. According to him, the common line is missing or randomly.
– Sometimes you get off faster and sometimes slower. Sometimes they want to look more closely and sometimes not very closely.
According to Kykkänen, some countries are more under observation in equipment control than others.
– If you look at statistics, a sensitive hand will be rejected smaller than the athletes of big countries. Of course, even the athletes of the big country have now been rejected, Kykkänen refers to the dancing of Norwegian stars.
Kykkänen says he has heard rumors that attempts have been made in the past, but no one has dared to do a direct protest.
– If they have been made to point out in the equipment control, they are not really addressed. Of course, it requires a thorough inspection for the suit.
– It could have been accomplished so that everyone’s costume has been studied in such a detail that it will definitely be screaming. Of course, it had to be done so that it would not be warned in advance.
A tight atmosphere at the end of the season
The World Ski Jumping World Cup continues on the Norwegian tour, which will start on the men’s and women’s side for the rest of the week. Kykkänen believes that the events of the men’s Suurmäki race and the following laundry will surely affect the atmosphere in the next race.
– That’s pretty clear. I think there may be a tight atmosphere. Certainly everyone is thinking about things and what this will do for a ski jump in general. How does it affect the dynamics between teams? Such things are sure to think.
The men’s World Cup will culminate in the traditional Lentomäki Games in Planica on the last weekend of March.
– Certainly it will work in some way. I hope we get through the rest of the season well, Aalto comments on the atmosphere.