Norway reacts to the suit scandal at the Nordic Ski World Cup. Two employees are suspended. The association wants full education.
Norway’s ski association reacted to the suit scandal at the home World Cup in Trondheim and, as expected, suspended ski jumping head coach Magnus Brevik and service technician Adrian Lively. This announced Norges Skiforbund on Monday afternoon. Former Slovenian World Cupspringer Bine Norcic, assistant coach of the Norwegians since 2022, assumes responsibility for the time being.
On Saturday the scandal got rolling after being known for stressful video recordings, and the Norwegian sports director Jan-Erik Aalbu admitted fraud on Sunday. He and the affected Norwegian jumpers around Marius Lindvik, world champion of the normal hill, were not informed about the manipulation of the jump suits, he emphasized.
Magnus Brevik was suspended after the World Cup scandal
Aalbu expressly pronounced trust by the association on Monday.
World Cup scandal: intentional manipulation of the ski jump suits
The information about the incidents that have appeared so far were “so serious that they were a reason for suspending the employment relationship” with Brevik and Livelten, the Norwegian association said in a press release: “We take this matter very seriously and believe that the equipment was deliberately manipulated in violation of the regulations of the FIS (skiing world association; i.e. Erlangen. “
So far, it has been “cleared that brevik and lived on Friday evening to sew an additional – and stiffer – thread into the suits of Johann Andre Forfang and Marius Lindvik,” said the association. There is currently no overview of possible further actions.
He supported the demand of the ski jumping committee “fully and therefore decided to suspend brevik and liveted them with immediate effect in accordance with the provisions of the Labor Environment Act,” says the incumbent general secretary of the Norwegian ski association, Ola Keul.
Both Brevik and Livelten would have agreed to the decision. This means that “until further notice” they will not work for the Norwegian Ski Association.
After the investigation of the association and the FIS, “a final statement” will be submitted to Brevik and Livelten.