The World Anti-Doping Agency has vowed to investigate claims top ski jumpers are manipulating the size of their crotch areas in order to get one over their rivals.<\/p>\n
Claims first surfaced in the German newspaper Bild last month that athletes were injecting substances like hyaluronic acid directly into their penises in order to boost their size and merit a bigger ski suit \u2013 which helps aerodynamics.<\/p>\n
WADA director general Olivier Niggli said at a press conference in Milan: “I am not aware of the details of ski jumping, and how that could improve performance.<\/p>\n
“If anything was to come to the surface, we would look at it and see if it is doping related. We don’t address other (non-doping) means of enhancing performance.”<\/p>\n
Ski jumpers have strongly denied such a practice exists, and no athlete has been either accused or found guilty of such a practice.<\/p>\n
However, ski jumping teams have long sought to gain a competitive advantage over rivals by making minor changes to their jumping suits.<\/p>\n
Last month, a number of members of the Norwegian team were suspended after being caught on video adding illegal stitching into the crotch area of their suits during last year\u2019s World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Anti-Doping Agency has vowed to investigate claims top ski jumpers are manipulating the size of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-282730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}