With a fabulous world record, Domen Prevc puts the ski jumping world into ecstasy. But of all people from Norway, allegations are now circulating: Was the Slovena suit too big?
Domen Prevc had ended the ski jumping season in Planica spectacularly with a new world record flight over 254.5 meters-and again received positive attention after the serious cheat scandal in the Norwegian team.
But in Norway, of all things, a mogue suspicion is now being expressed against PrevC.
Serious accusations of cheat from Norway
Ex-jumper Andreas Stjerne, who once sailed to 249 meters in 2016, described it as “very strange” in conversation with the online portal Nettavisen that the PrevC suit could pass the FIS material test.
“It does not look as if they were followed by the more detailed examination that you should carry out according to the World Cup,” Stjerne also criticized the International Ski Association.
After the scandal at the Nordic Ski World Cup, the latter had checked the suits of all athletes and only released a suit for the rest of the season.
Stjerne also made conjectures about Prevc’s preference in his home game in Slovenia: “It seems to be difficult to beat a home jumper.
The Norwegian sports director Jan-Erik Aalbu also said in a variety of ways: “I thought about it, but I keep it for myself. I saw and noticed that it is a topic of conversation, but I don’t want to say anything more.”
Expert: “Almost floats like a balloon”
In the same article, TV commentator Petter Tenstad was surprised: “I can’t remember that I have seen it before. Especially when you have seen the repetition of Domen Prevc out of the jump, you can see how the suit fills with air and almost floated like a balloon on the back of the buttocks.”
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However, there is no evidence for the theses of Stjerne and Tenstad. Both only refer to the fact that the plane’s suit looked great on the television picture. On the Internet, too, some fans suspected that the suit in flight with a striking amount of air.
In this context, Tenstad also relativized that there was a difference between an “obviously large suit and manipulation”.
However, suspicions such as those of Stjerne are now the order of the day in ski jumping. Karl Geiger also had to listen to little tangible allegations from Poland as part of the World Cup.
Catch scandal at the Nordic Ski World Cup
Meanwhile, the Norwegian scandal affair, which was started by a video during the Nordic Ski World Cup, showed how the Norwegians manipulated already chipped suits.
After examining the suits after the large hill competition, the actual silver medal winner Marius Lindvik (behind Domen Prevc) and the top-placed Johann-André Forfang were disqualified.
At the start of the RAW air, the entire Norwegian World Cup team was then removed. After the season, the locks were lifted, but the FIS test continues.
This is how long Marius Lindvik still has to tremble for his normal hill-gold gold, which Andreas Wellinger could subsequently be awarded.