{"id":60695,"date":"2025-08-11T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60695\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:05:08","slug":"numerous-disqualifications-in-ski-jumping-event-in-the-wake-of-norwegian-suit-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60695\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous disqualifications in ski jumping event, in the wake of Norwegian suit scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Norway’s Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal, seen here competing in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on March 4, 2023, was one of the racers disqualified from Sunday’s event.BORUT ZIVULOVIC<\/p>\n

The right suit can help send a ski jumper soaring to gold. The wrong suit will get you grounded.<\/p>\n

Ski jumping faces more controversy with six months to go until the Winter Olympics after the first high-level competition of the new season saw numerous athletes disqualified over ill-fitting suits. The governing body says it\u2019s \u201cperfectly normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ski jumping world was rocked in March<\/a> by the discovery of illegally altered suits on the Norwegian team at the world championships. The International Ski Federation investigated officials and athletes over those changes, which could help the wearer soar through the air for longer with the suit\u2019s larger surface area. <\/p>\n

In Saturday\u2019s first event of the 2025-26 season \u2014 a summer Grand Prix event on an artificial surface in France \u2014 six male ski jumpers were disqualified because of suit issues such as waist size and three more were \u201cnot permitted to start.\u201d Another jumper from Japan was blocked from competing as the Grand Prix continued Sunday.<\/p>\n

The federation told The Associated Press in an e-mailed statement that it\u2019s treating the spate of disqualifications as the natural result of tightening up the rules after the Norwegian suit scandal. <\/p>\n

FIS race director Sandro Pertile said he doesn\u2019t think anyone was trying to cheat and that fewer disqualifications will occur as teams get used to the rules. Making specialized ski jumping equipment is \u201ca fairly complicated matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s perfectly normal for teams to need some time to adapt to the new situation after such comprehensive changes to the equipment regulations. Some cope with it straight away, others find it difficult at first,\u201d Pertile told the AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also important to highlight that these disqualifications are clearly a result of technical inadequacies \u2014 there\u2019s no sign whatsoever of ill intent from the teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

FIS indicated that a further nine men and five women didn\u2019t compete following a \u201ctechnical approval\u201d process, though it wasn\u2019t clear if all of those cases involved their suits. Five of those 14 were on the United States team, which didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Among those disqualified Saturday was Norway\u2019s Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal, who had previously been provisionally suspended earlier this year following the world championships. <\/p>\n

FIS signaled it will remain rigorous in its checks through the Olympic season but expects to find athletes wearing increasingly snug \u2014 and therefore legal \u2014 suits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe teams know that they have our full support, and we expect the number of disqualifications to decrease significantly in the coming weeks,\u201d Pertile said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that said, we will remain strict and precise with equipment check the whole season long; there is no room for exceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Norway’s Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal, seen here competing in the FIS Nordic World Ski…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-60695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}