Not good. They admit to illegally altering their suits for ski jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships, knowing it was against the rules and hoping not to get caught.
NORWAY: According to the Norwegian Ski Federation, Norway’s ski jumping team deliberately cheated by using altered jumpsuits at the Nordic World Ski Champions
The Norwegian team are convinced that other nations (Austria) are also tweaking and tuning their equipment beyond the legal limits, so in order to be competitive they believe they have to cheat as well. Whether that is true or not doesn't matter, and we'll likely never know as FIS blew their one shot at inspecting every nation's suits simultaneously without warning (after the competition on Saturday the 8th of March).
The correct move would be not to cheat and instead try to uncover anyone who might be cheating, but that's not the way things went and heads will have to roll.
The team had been collectively underperforming and in financial struggles due to difficulties attracting sponsors when they suddenly started performing and attracted sponsors almost immediately.
Needless to say those sponsors are now pulling out in record time.
- During the 23/24 season, the national team coach at the time, Alexander Stöckl, was the subject of an internal complaint from the athletes regarding his "leadership style" and "lack of support" in training. He was eventually dismissed from the role at the end of the season. Whether these complaints were real or if they came from the coach's unwillingness to cheat is uncertain.
- In the fresh 2025 scandal the media strategy is to throw certain leadership figures under the bus while protecting the athletes "because they didn't know", but this is 99% bs. There's likely no way the athletes didn't know. They work intimately with the tailor and everything is extremely bespoke to however their bodies look at the time. Every suit for every athlete is as big as it possibly can be within the allowed margins, and athletes still get DQed all the time because of their suit. They would literally feel that something is different when the suit is suddenly more rigid in the pelvic area.
- The type of inspection that proved cheating at the World Champs was more elaborate than normal because they had reason to believe foul play due to a sneak video of the tailor in action. Under normal circumstances it likely would have passed.
- The only thing the officials messed up was not taking the opportunity to inspect all the suits from all nations, cause everyone knows the level of scrutiny will be many times higher from now on which they'll adapt to (by not cheating).
Two things came of this:
- Norwegian cheaters bringing the sport into disrepute. - Hopefully more fair play. Would not be surprised to see quite a reshuffle at the top of the leaderboards in the forthcoming race weeks.
Not good. They admit to illegally altering their suits for ski jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships, knowing it was against the rules and hoping not to get caught.
the facade online profile, the grand photos, the creation of the great persona, the great life.
fakery to prove I'm a great person. get a buck, pvssy, but most of all..
the whole thing comes from a base worthless self image, and corrective action of the ego-mind, is to create a persona of successful, or more uselessly, paint the picture there of. by hook or crook, a covert insane operation,
it is a serious psychological condition that is learned, to overcome fear and trauma of being left behind, due to not being accepted by daddy mommy etc.
it is a need less, ultimately sick childishness blight.
Not good. They admit to illegally altering their suits for ski jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships, knowing it was against the rules and hoping not to get caught.
Cheating could be prevented by requiring competitors to perform in their underwear or fully naked. This would have the added benefit of increasing TV audiences.
Not good. They admit to illegally altering their suits for ski jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships, knowing it was against the rules and hoping not to get caught.
Not good. They admit to illegally altering their suits for ski jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships, knowing it was against the rules and hoping not to get caught.
Where is rekrunner?? Shouldn't she be explaining that Norwegians would never cheat, that the tailor's scissors coincidentally slipped, and that the "modifications" didn't help?
