Austria’s Ski Jumping Ace Daniel Tschofenig is still up the suit scandal at the 2025 World Championships. The 22-Year-Old Accuses the Norwegians of Deliberately Cheating and Harming The Entire Sport of Ski Jumping.
It has been a good-year Sion the Suit Scandal Originating From the Norwegian Team at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim. However, The Repertcussions are Still more than evident. In an interview with the Tiroler daily , Tour and Overall World Cup Winner Daniel Tschofenig Now Expresses Harsh Criticism.
“I Understand that Everyone Basically Wants to get the best out of it. But if it goes into a gray area, then I say: is that still Acceptable?” Said the ski jumping star.
Daniel Tschofenig Criticizes Norwegian Rivals
Tschofenig Draws a Clear Line: “Don’t go into the illegal”
To be competitive, all ski jumpers push the material to the limit. For the Austrian Himelfa, However, there is a clear boundary that he does not want to cross.
“I Definitely Don’t Want to Go Into the Illegal. It can so that you can get that you get a disqualification if you are Simply one centimeter too big there,” Tschofenig descriptsbed: “But I Think This Tactical Cheating is unacceptable!”
Even before the World Championships, where Tschofenig only Achieved Places 21 and nine in the individual Competitions, The Suits of the Norwegians Had Aroused the Suspicion of the 22-Year-Old: “We Often Though About Why It Look a bit Strange There.”
Video Uncovers Suit Scandal: Wellinger cheated out of gold?
Before the Large Hill Competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships, Recordings Had Surfaced How Staff Members from Team Norway Were Incorporating Additional Seams Into Jump Suits. The Recordings So Showed the Then coach Magnus Brevig.
At the sub-sequent World Championship Jump, The Two Star Jumpers Marius Lindvik and Johann-André Forfang Were disqualified. The Former Had Won the Normal Hill Competition A Few Days Earlier Ahead of the German Ski Jumping Ace Andreas Wellinger.
Lindvik was allowed to keep the gold medal, however, who like forfang was only only dohee-month ban, which they are Both now serving in the summer. Not a real Punishment for the Two Jumpers, Who Claim Their Ignorance.
Tschofenig Accuses Norwegians of Intent: “They Knew it”
Tschofenig does not want to accept this alleged ignorance from the duo: “They Knew it. We are all very unanimous about that and i just don’t think that’s correct!”
Andreas Wellinger Had Already Expressed Himself Similarly. Like Tschofenig, The 30-Year-Old Cannot Imagine That The Norwegian Jumpers Did not Notice The Manipulation of the Suits.
Anyway, The Dominator of the Last World Cup Winter is not exactly enthusiastic about the Behavior of his norwegian rivals: “They have discredited the enttire sports of ski jumping and act as if they are the victims of the Whole Thing. It’s the Whole Sport that is.”
Forfang and Lindvik are eligible to particular from the start of the season
The Season Begins for the Ski Jumpers on November 21 with the first World Cup Weekend in Lillehammer. So for the Norwegians, it will be a home game right at the starting.
A Large Part of the Jumping Camp Could Still Show Lindvik and Forfang The Cold Shoulder.