The scandal of the last days of the Trondheim World Championships overshadowed the Norwegian medal rain in the hill.
First combined saw an exceptional discourse when Jörgen’s Grabak The hill performance was rejected in the team race due to an irregular ski bandage.
A day later Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang They experienced the same fate because FIS, the International Ski Association, found a forbidden clamp rope for their suits.
Although Lindvik lost his big silver medal, Norway was a ski jump on Trondheim’s hills and combined with the most successful country in the race. Its athletes achieved 15 medals: seven gold medals, four silver and four bronze medals.
The three athletes mentioned above were influenced by five medals.
Marius Lindvik celebrated gold in the Normal Hill, which was the men’s first personal race in Trondheim. Before his rejection, he also achieved the world championship in a mixed team and bronze in the men’s team.
Johann Andre Forfang was winning the Mixed team’s gold and the men’s team bronze. He finished fifth in the first personal race in Norma.
Jörgen Graabak jumped and skied silver in the men’s first personal race in Trondheim. The prize cabinet also included the men’s team bronze medal, even though he was rejected on the hill section.
Norwegian Ski Association Sports Director Jan-Erik Aalbu At a news conference on the last day of the World Championships, he admitted that the national team leadership had manipulated Lindvik and Forfang’s jumpsuits.
Aalbu claimed that Lindvik and Forfang’s costumes were only modified to be irregular in the cart. The International Ski Association FIS is currently exploring the truth of the claim. The survey also contains whether the equipment shout is extended to other Norwegian team members.
Return to the top just before the World Cup
The results of the Norwegian men’s ski team were lean in the opening half of the season, with the measurement of the World Cup personal race prize investments.
Before the Zakopanen Games in mid -January, there was only one investment in the Norwegian account in the top three.
Starting from Zakopane, podium spaces accumulated per month in nine races. However, as the table below shows, the whole team cannot be talked about about a massive level lifting.
Lindvik was the only one of the Norwegian skiers who rose to the top rings on the weekends before the long wake-up hike.
Sports Expert Petter Kukkonen emphasizes that when looking at Lindvik’s results, direct conclusions should be drawn when the costume manipulation would have begun.
– However, Lindvik is an Olympic champion and forfangk’s multiple Olympic and World Championship medalist. When the athlete regains his confidence, the course may turn rapidly, says Kukkonen, who has been the head coach of the Finnish -combined national team in 2012-2022.
According to Kukkonen, who is excellent in the ski circles, equipment development controls the philosophy of training in many large ski jumping countries.
– The importance of equipment is huge. I understand that the Norwegians have long sought jumping through their equipment, while in Finland we have technology, technology and more technology.
Since the World Cup, Norwegian men’s hill results have collapsed.
In six races, the best Norwegian has been ranked 21st, and in only one race the country has got two jumpers for the second round, the top 30. These races Norway has toured with the B national team.
FIS first placed Lindvik and Forfang and Norwegian Mountain Team head coach Magnus Brevig and the equipment nurse Adrian Liveten temporary prohibition of operation during the investigation.
Later, FIS put a temporary ban on competitive Robin Pedersen, Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Robert Johansson.
– Behind the best, the level difference is striking. If you take four of the toughests from Austria, there will be seats, Kukkonen says.
Graabak stood out
Looking at the Norwegian-combined athletes’ ski results in this season’s personal competitions, the Norwegians were the most successful in the World Championships in the Greater Championships.
The race took place after Jörgen Graabak was abandoned due to an irregular ski bandage.
The rejection did not come from a lightning out of the clear sky, as the Norwegian skiing ties already spoke at the Seefeld World Cup in late January.
Graabak is the only athlete whose results improved significantly in the World Cup.
“Of course, as an experienced athlete, he missed the last World Cup races to focus on the World Cup, which took place in his home landscape,” says Kukkonen.
Known as a tough skier, Graabak jumped in Trondheim on the Mountains of the Personal Games on 7 and 8. The best jumps, although his season’s average investment on the hill was 23.
– I understand that the outer edge of both ties had continued a little further so that the exterior of the foot had been able to control the ski better and in Lappe, Kukkonen refers to the abandoned bandages in the Grabak team race.
– Every smart person has to ask why this bandage tuning would have only touched a team race and a single athlete on the team. We don’t know this, but the question is to ask.
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According to Kukkonen, the equipment competition for the Mäkimono also appeared during his head coaching time.
– I know that one of the technicians in the country have dismantled the entire Mono’s base structure and made its own tuning there to make it as balanced as possible to calculate and effort.
– These changes should always take into account the safety aspect, the changes should be approved by FIS, and the tools should, in principle, be accessible to everyone. This is that gray area.
Graabak and Jens lurås oftebro Have been far from their best after Trondheim.
– This has certainly been quite a bit for all Norwegian athletes, when the hillside team’s athletes, technician and head coach are put on the shelf and some sponsors are all. It is no wonder that the bowl whistles, Kukkonen says.