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Reuters
11-03-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Ski jumping-Norway suspends coach and one other over cheating at World Ski Championships
March 11 (Reuters) - The Norwegian Ski Federation has suspended two staff, including the team coach, after the governing body admitted that the country's ski jumping team cheated by manipulating jumpsuits at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim. The federation said its ski jumping committee requested the suspension of national team coach Magnus Brevik and equipment manager Adrian Livelten after two Norwegian athletes were disqualified on Saturday. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Acting General Secretary Ola Keul said the two's suspension was immediate and would remain in force until further notice. "The information that has emerged so far about the events... is so serious that it provides grounds for suspending their employment," the federation said in a statement on Monday. Stine Korsen, the chair of the ski jumping committee, said that Norway would welcome an investigation by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) into the cheating. "We take this matter very seriously and recognise that equipment has been deliberately manipulated in violation of FIS regulations in order to gain an advantage in the competition," Korsen added. Bine Norcic will act as coach while Brevik is suspended, the federation said.
The Guardian
10-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Norway suspends staff members in ski jump cheating scandal at world championships
The Norwegian ski federation has suspended a ski jumping coach and an equipment manager over their alleged role in a cheating scandal which shook the world championships this weekend. The federation said coach Magnus Brevig and equipment manager Adrian Livelten were suspected of modifying ski suits by sewing in an extra seam in an attempt to create more lift in the air. Norway is one of the traditional powers within ski jumping, and the cheating attempt at its home world championships has caused a massive outcry in a country that prides itself on its winter sports prowess. Two Norwegian ski jumpers, Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, were disqualified from Saturday's men's large hill competition after organisers said their suits broke the rules. Lindvik had finished second in the event before he was disqualified. The federation on Sunday admitted that the suits had been deliberately altered, after a video emerged online of the alterations being made. 'The way I consider this … we have cheated,' said Jan-Erik Aalbu, general manager of the federation. 'We have tried to cheat the system. That is unacceptable.' Brevig told Norwegian media on Monday that several team members had been involved in the decision to alter the suits, but added that: 'I should have stopped it.' He claimed it was the first time they had stitched in an extra seam, but made a sailing analogy to explain why a stiffer suit would help the jumpers fly farther in the air. 'A tighter sail is better than a loose sail,' he said. The federation said Brevik and Livelten would be suspended indefinitely while inquiries continue. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation said Sunday that it had opened its own investigation.
