Jan 15 (Reuters) – Three officers for Norway’s males’s ski leaping workforce had been suspended for 18 months and fined on Thursday by the FIS Ethics Committee (FEC) for manipulating competitors fits finally 12 months’s Nordic Ski World Championships in Trondheim.
Head coach Magnus Brevik, former assistant coach Thomas Lobben, and swimsuit technician Adrian Livelten had been sanctioned following an investigation into tools tampering in the course of the males’s massive hill occasion in March 2025.
The controversy erupted after Norway’s Olympic champions Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang, together with the teaching workers, had been charged over using altered fits.
Lindvik initially completed second however was stripped of his silver medal after being disqualified, whereas Forfang, who positioned fourth, was additionally disqualified following an tools inspection.
The Norwegian Ski Federation admitted after the competitors that the workforce had manipulated the fits however mentioned the ski jumpers weren’t at fault for the violations. The organisers discovered nothing untoward in the course of the preliminary examine, however after the race they found totally different materials within the seams.
In an announcement, FIS mentioned the trio can be ineligible for a interval “of 18 months, commencing on the date of the choice (8 January 2026), much less the interval of provisional suspension already served since 12 March 2025.”
The governing physique added they must contribute CHF 5,000 ($6,246.88) every to the prices of the proceedings and the investigation.
In an announcement to Norwegian broadcaster NRK, the trio’s attorneys mentioned the choice was “disproportionately strict”.
“The grounds of the judgment expressly state that related rule violations haven’t been sanctioned beforehand – or have solely been met with a warning – and that this case is getting used for example to mark a brand new and stricter line in worldwide ski leaping,” they added.
