Norway’s Olympic Champion Ski Jumpers Accept Bans For Tampering With Suits

Norway’s Olympic golden medallists Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang person accepted three-month suspensions for their domiciled successful nan tampering of skis suits during a title successful March, nan International Ski Federation (FIS) said connected Saturday.

Lindvik and Forfang, together pinch 2 coaches and a work unit member, were charged this period complete instrumentality manipulation successful nan men’s ample elevation arena astatine nan World Ski Championships successful Trondheim, Norway successful March aft an FIS investigation.

Lindvik vanished 2nd but was denied nan metallic badge having been disqualified pursuing an instrumentality inspection on pinch Forfang who came fourth. The Norwegian Ski Federation admitted aft nan title that nan squad had manipulated nan suits but said nan skis jumpers were not astatine responsibility for nan violations.

The FIS Ethics Commission said Lindvik and Forfang had admitted to breaching title rules and had agreed that they should person asked questions astir nan adjustments to their suits.

“Johann Forfang and Marius Lindvik are truthful consenting to judge nan projected sanctions of a play of ineligibility of 3 months, from which nan play of nan provisional suspension already served shall beryllium deducted,” nan ruling assemblage said successful a statement. The brace person besides agreed to salary fines of 2,000 Swiss francs (£1,800) each.

“In our view, nan lawsuit shows that routines for connection betwixt nan support unit handling instrumentality and suits, and nan athletes, should beryllium improved to forestall akin situations from occurring successful nan future,” their lawyers said successful a statement.

The suspensions are owed to extremity good earlier adjacent year’s Milano-Cortina Olympics wherever Lindvik will dream to take sides his men’s Olympic ample elevation title. Forfang won nan ample elevation squad golden and normal elevation individual metallic astatine nan 2018 Olympics.