Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal of Group Norway is among the athletes suspended on suspicion of unlawful go well with manipulation.
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The ski leaping world stays embroiled in controversy stemming from a cheating scandal that was announced this week, initially involving a number of members of the Norwegian group.
The problem has since escalated, now implicating a number of extra athletes.
In consequence, all events recognized on this incident have been provisionally suspended by the Worldwide Ski and Snowboard Federation (IFS) resulting from suspicions of dishonest. This motion follows the skiers participation within the 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships held in Trondheim, Norway final week.
Three issues to know:
- Group Norway’s coach Magnus Brevig and gear supervisor Adrian Livelten, together with two different group Norway workers members, had been first provisionally suspended by the Norwegian ski federation on Tuesday. They’re suspected of illegally manipulating ski fits to reinforce athlete efficiency, in line with statements from the IFS.
- Olympic gold medalist Marius Lindvik, who gained first place in males’s particular person regular hill ski leaping on the championship, and Johann André Forfang are included in that provisional suspension. Only a day later, the IFS introduced that it could additionally provisionally droop world championship profitable medalists Robin Pedersen and Kristoffer Sundal, in addition to Robert Johansson for his or her use of the manipulated gear. All named events will probably be, “provisionally suspended, with fast impact, from collaborating in FIS occasions and occasions organized by a Nationwide Ski Affiliation,” the IFS mentioned.
- The IFS is conducting a thorough investigation into the gear utilized by all Group Norway athletes. However no irregularities have been discovered within the gear utilized by the Girls’s Ski Leaping group or by the Males’s and Girls’s Nordic Mixed groups.
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The investigation continues
Though gear from the opposite groups didn’t have any irregularities, the IFS’ evaluation of the lads’s leaping fits raised “further suspicions of manipulation” in line with their press launch.
“The state of affairs is clearly extraordinarily disturbing and disappointing,” mentioned FIS Secretary Normal Michel Vion. “For the reason that weekend, each the FIS Unbiased Ethics and Compliance Workplace and the FIS administration have been working steadily to proceed with a broad and thorough investigation as swiftly as doable whereas additionally making certain equity and due course of.”
