Norway suspends 2 staff members in ski jump cheating scandal at world championships

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 11, 2025 2:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The Norwegian skis federation has suspended a skis jumping manager and an instrumentality manager implicit their alleged relation successful a cheating ungraded which shook the satellite championships this weekend.

The federation said manager Magnus Brevik and instrumentality manager Adrian Livelten were suspected of modifying skis suits by sewing successful an other seam successful an effort to make much assistance successful the air.

Norway is 1 of the accepted powers wrong skis jumping, and the cheating effort astatine its location satellite championships has caused a monolithic outcry successful a state that prides itself connected its wintertime sports prowess.

Two Norwegian skis jumpers, Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang, were disqualified from Saturday's men's ample elevation contention aft organizers said their suits broke the rules. Lindvik had finished 2nd successful the lawsuit earlier helium was disqualified.

The federation connected Sunday admitted that the suits had been deliberately altered, aft a video emerged online of the alterations being made.

Brevik connected Monday told Norwegian media that respective squad members had been progressive successful the determination to change the suits, but that "I should person stopped it."

He claimed it was the archetypal clip they had stitched successful an other seam, but made a sailing analogy to explicate wherefore a stiffer suit would assistance the jumpers alert farther successful the air.

"A tighter sail is amended than a escaped sail," Brevik said.

The federation said Brevik and Livelten would beryllium suspended indefinitely portion inquiries continue. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation said Sunday that it had opened its ain investigation.