Team colleague Johann Andre Forfang also lost his fifth place.
The suit dispute has requested its first victims: Norwegian Marius Lindvik was abolished shortly after the World Cup competition in Trondheim. The FIS stated as the reason a “manipulation of the suit”. Team colleague Johann Andre Forfang also lost his fifth place. Lindvik had won gold from the normal hill six days earlier.
Silver behind world champion Domen Prevc went to the Austrian Jan Hörl, Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi moved to the bronze rank. As a result, Philipp Raimund also ended up in the fifth, Andreas Wellinger in eighth place.
Already during the first round, Austria, Slovenia and Poland had protest against the evaluation of all Norwegian starters. The hosts are suspected of having changed their suits after the official chip.
Norway’s ski jumping boss Jan Erik Aalbu had stated in the ARD that the suits in the video were intended for the World Cup this weekend in Oslo and not for the World Cup. “The video shows that our man is preparing suits. This is nothing special,” said Aalbu.
However, there are considerable doubts about this representation. “If this is the suits for the new period, I wonder why the suits on the video contain chips. It only exists when the World Cup is over, ”said ARD expert Sven Hannawald. The German Ski Association saw it similarly. “The arguments from colleague Aalbu are dismantled by all leading experts, completely,” said sports director Horst Hüttel.
However, the German Ski Association did not sign the protest. The reason is that it was called “that all athletes, women and gentlemen who started at the World Cup should be completely canceled,” Nordic combination such as ski jumping, “said Hüttel:” I say: I find it difficult to hack around. “
National coach Stefan Horngacher was also served, especially by Raimund despite the good performance. “A few things have happened that are completely unacceptable,” he said. So far he has always trusted the official controls: “But I have now seen that a nation does wild things that are completely below. You can’t just wipe away the protest.”
ARD expert Sven Hannawald had already stated before the competition that ski jumper was currently “forced to cheat”, “if you want to be there”. According to Hannawald, the FIS had recently not carried out its strict regulations from the beginning of the season.