Ski jumping: Petter Kukkonen’s ferocious revelation of the Norwegian scandal

Norwegian The ski jumping scandal was a new turn on Sunday when the sports director of the Norwegian Mountain Team Jan-Erik Aalbu admitted his team was consciously cheated in the World Ski World Championships.

Ex-head coach of the combined national team in Finland Petter Kukkonen has proven a similar case in the past.

Kukkonen revealed to Ruka in 2020 how ski jumpers and combined athletes cheat in jumping dresses.

The fresh scandal of Norway is just a sequel to the manipulation of the jumpsuits.

“It seems unfortunate that similar events repeat themselves. These cases should be regularly, in some way trying to stretch the rules or cheat, ”Kukkonen says.

“The species has not gotten away from this core problem. That is, making jumping suits so that the possibility of manipulation is low. It’s sad, ”he says.

On Saturday to the public was leaked videowhere the Norwegian hill suit is sewn against the rules.

Norwegian Marius Lindvik, Johann Andre Forfang and Kristoffer Eriksen Rejected in the men’s Suurmäki competition on the same day due to irregular jumps. At the same time, Lindvik lost his World Championship silver medal.

Norwegian Sports Director of the Norwegian Mountain Team Jan-Erik Aalbu Said on Sunday that a strengthened yarn was sewn to Lindvik and Forfang’s costumes.

The purpose of the trick was to increase the carrier area of ​​the costume, which, according to Kukkonen, could be huge.

“It’s really hard to give such an accurate meter, but there are many small tricks used in a jumping suit. The advantage is suddenly between 5 and 10 meters, what a big one can get. That is the kind of magnitude that is pretty close to the truth. ”

Kukkonen reminds us that Norway is not the only team that operates on the rules, although now the accusing finger is in the direction of Vuonoma.

“Such a setting is a bit wrong that Norway would be bad and all the other good.”

“All countries are in the same game, just about everyone. Larger countries may be more, smaller countries try to follow. ”

Norwegian The fresh scandal has been compared to, for example, Finland’s 2001 doping scandal in the Lahti World Championships.

“Sanctions must be significant now,” Kukkonen says.

“This is what I think is about competition manipulation. There are some similar precedents in the world that have given quite extensive punishments, ”he says.

“The cases are always slightly different in different species, so it’s hard to say what the right parable here would be.”

Rooster It points out that Norwegian scams are not necessarily limited to men’s ski jumping.

“Quite often, the development of costume technology takes place in a ski -led, that is, women and men of both species belong to the same system.”

“It would be strange for the resources to make the combined to do their own hustle.”

The fresh scandal of Norway also has a connection to Finland through the combined.

Finland finished fourth in the combined men’s team competition, although the World Cup bronze medal in Norway Jörgen Graabak was rejected by the hill section. Kukkonen’s personal trainer also included the Finnish team Eero Hirvonen.

Graabak was rejected due to the wrong ties, and at the same time, Norway lost his ability to win. Kukkonen says that the Norwegian ties were also intentional cheating.

“They were fully aware that this was forbidden. It really seems strange that it was tried. ”

Kukkonen, who worked as YLE’s expert in the men’s team competition, found a tremendous detail of the competition.

“There, there were other Norwegian athletes in my eyes who jumped with forbidden ties. Not just grabak. ”

In the combined Norwegian binding was not the first even for this year.

“The Norwegians had already tried a similar binding piping at the Seefeld World Cup in February,” Kukkonen reveals.

“There their actions were revealed, and they were heavily together with Fisi. At that time, no one was rejected, but all Norwegian women combined athletes were replaced with symmetrical ties. ”