I Did Not Think There was. Rule Like This!
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Three officials from the Norwegian men's ski jumping team have been suspended just weeks before the Winter Olympics are due to kick off in Milano Cortino – and it’s for a very unusual reason.
The scandal first began to unfold in March last year, when head coach Magnus Brevik and suit technician Adrian Livelten were caught on camera at the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in Norway, appearing to visibly tamper with the suits of their skiers.
It later emerged that a third official, assistant head coach Thomas Lobben, had also been embroiled in the plot.
The alterations made by the officials involved inserting illegal non-elastic stitching into the crotch areas of the suits of two jumpers, Olympic gold medalists Johann André Forfang and Marius Lindvik, but crucially, these changes were made after the garments had already been inspected and approved by event staff.
The crotch enhancements involved making the area larger and flatter, and were designed to make the suits more streamlined and more aerodynamic, two factors which could play a huge role in the distance a jumper could potentially achieve.
