On Thursday, the ski jumper will start again in the World Cup, with the Norwegian Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang, disqualified by the World Cup.
Ski jumping Olympic champion Andreas Wellinger looks at the upcoming season’s sprint in view of the tap scandal of the Norwegian team with a lot of skepticism.
“I actually have little desire to meet a Norwegian on the ski jump,” said the 29-year-old at Servustv : “Not because one personally can explicitly do something for it, but because this manipulation from A to Z has been shot.”
Andreas Wellinger is skeptical in the SkiSprung World Cup
Norwegian to the scandal at the start
However, both Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang will be there on the RAW-Air tour in Norway, which begins on Thursday (5 p.m.) with jumping in Oslo. This was announced by the Norwegian ski association on Tuesday. The two jumpers were disqualified at the large hill competition of the World Cup in Trondheim last Saturday due to manipulated suits.
The Norwegian association finally admitted the fraud on Sunday and suspended head coach Magnus Brevik on Monday, but repeatedly claimed that the jumpers were not informed. In addition to many experts and participants, Wellinger also expressed doubts about this presentation.
“I can hardly imagine that,” he said. He knows “from experience from the past twelve years, when I am now: If changes take place on the suit, I stand inside and I notice that it is different and ask what has been changed.”
Wellinger complains of “pretense”
For him, the manipulation of the suits is a “fooling” for all other jumper, emphasized Wellinger, who had won silver behind Lindvik at the World Cup on the normal hill.
Whether he may even be entitled to the gold medal, he could not “judge,” said Wellinger: “Even if I get the golden home: then I was not at the award ceremony, then I didn’t hear the pictures, the pictures are not, the emotions. Actually everything we live for why we do sports, nobody can give me that anymore. ”