Norwegian World Championship scandal: Finns tell their views

In the ski jumping world Now is an unprecedented way.

At the end of the World Skiing World Championships on Sunday, it was revealed that Norway has manipulated athletes’ jumpsuits without a rules. Norwegians have confessed their scams.

In the Finnish team, the shock news has mainly aroused amazement, says a ski jumper who competes in the World Cup in the World Cup Niko Kytösaho.

“We don’t know more than what everyone else has read about the media. We have wondered what has happened. This has been a guess for us, even though we are so -called inside, ”says Kytösaho.

Knowledge of Norwegian sticks came as a surprise to Kytösaho. He states that the rules have been stretched in ski jumping before, but Norway’s activities are completely exceptional.

“Big ski jumping countries are always trying to look for deceased loopholes to develop equipment so that it is not noticed or made within the rules. It doesn’t surprise you, but it surprises you that manipulation has been so drastic. ”

Norway changed their costumes after the chips found in all racing suits. Modifying the costumes after attaching chips is unequivocally forbidden in the rules.

“I haven’t heard that this was ever done. I have never noticed such a blatant equipment on this scale. ”

“Hopefully this will become proper sanctions and the International Ski Association (FIS) will ensure that this will no longer happen in the future,” Kytösaho outlines.

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If nothing happens and there is no sanctions, this is a pretty farce. You have to react with a big hand.

Also a coach of the combined national team Antti Kuisma calls for Fisi measures.

He says that the ski federations of Finland and many other countries are demanding that FIS is now accurate in Norwegian costumes in both men’s and women’s ski jumping and in combination and finding out if the cheating has been going on for a long time.

The Finnish Ski Association has sent a written requirement for FIS.

“There’s a little suspicion here that this is some kind of systematic activity,” Kuisma says.

“Fisi now has a great place to cleanse his own and the reputation of the sport by thoroughly exploring things. The reputation will suffer the most if there is no sufficient profound action or the investigation will stop and the matter is forgotten. ”

Kytösaho is on the same line. According to him, Fisi’s measures determine what the reputation of the ski jumping of the ski jumps from Norway’s scam.

“If nothing happens and there will be no sanctions, this is a pretty farce. You have to react to this with a big hand, ”says Kytösaho.

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It is important that the matter is not limited to these Norwegian cases. It’s just one way to break or get around the rules.

Sparkle According to the examinations, it is “useless to blame anyone”, but he considers Norway cheating to be a clear case. Representatives of the country have already admitted the fraud.

“It is important that the matter is not limited to these Norwegian cases. It’s just one way to break or get around the rules. It is important to find out how extensive this activity extends. ”

The rules for jumping costumes have been spoken in ski jumping many times before, and some kind of tricks have been invented to stretch them.

For example At the Ruka World Cup in 2020 Finnish jumpers put dishwashers in their panties to measure the costumes to get the branch of the suits down. Other countries used the sponge for the same purpose.

According to Kytösaho, the current rule book is so long that the resources in competitions are not enough to go through all the costumes.

Kuisma says that even the teams are not fully aware of the rules related to jumping.

“There are so many rules that almost every jumping suit can be abandoned for some reason,” Kuisma shakes.

He hopes that the rules of the species will be clarified.

“Then it would be easier for teams to work and not always have to be in the sock so that there is a rule for something that was not remembered.”

In Trondheim in positions 24 and 33 jumped Julia Kykkänen It considers the way the Norwegian team cheated on.

Kykkänen heard about numerous rejections for the first time when he was on his way home from the World Cup.

“When about many people suffered, it tells me that the activity has been systematic. I don’t think for a second that the same thing would not have been done throughout the race and earlier this season. ”

According to Kykkänen, the scandal for the Norwegians is about the rules of the costumes. It allows the jumper to drop his torso inside the suit and the wind will hold better to the stiff suit.

“As long as the size of the costumes is played, so long will be single rejections of too big costumes. But this case in Norway is a completely different issue. A prohibited stick congeon was systematically introduced years ago, which is proven to be able to achieve a significant benefit. ”

Kykkänen is annoyed by the fame of ski jumping.

“I have heard rumors that there have been attempts to point out earlier. Then, when the video came to light, it could no longer be denied. Maybe someone thought this is the last way to prove that. ”

“The job could have been done so that it would have been stated in advance that everyone’s costumes are properly blamed. Then no one would have been addressed directly with the finger. ”

HS In addition to Kytösaho, four other athletes in the Finnish ski jumping team were aiming for this story.

Of them Antti Aalto and Eetu Nousiainen They announced that they did not want to comment on the Norwegian cheat scandal.