After Scandal from Trondheim: Rough air in Oslo: Wellinger has “little desire for Norwegians”

The fact that Andreas Wellinger and Marius Lindvik will grin together at a ski jumping ceremony will probably no longer happen. If the German Olympic champion is concerned, he would like to do without his adversaries from Norway after the huge World Cup scandal for manipulated suits in the next few weeks.

“I actually have little desire to meet a Norwegian on the hill. Not because one personally can personally do something for it, but because this manipulation from A to Z has shot so much,” said Wellinger, who was second behind world champion Lindvik. Would that have been his gold medal? This is just one of many questions that the World Association FIS will have to answer in the next few weeks.

Wellinger: “Just a fooling”

The hosts’ intentional suit cheating at the World Cup in Trondheim has left deep traces and will keep the ski jumping scene busy for a long time. Before the continuation of the World Cup on Thursday (5:00 p.m./ZDF and Eurosport) in Oslo, the question arises: How will the rivals react to the massive, suspected of fraud, Lindvik and Johann André Forfang? Will there be memorable pictures of refused congratulations on a podium?

There is – in keeping with the series of competition of the same name in Norway – rough air on the wooden scale. Norway’s association nominated Lindvik and Forfang for the singles as a matter of course. So there will inevitably come to spicy encounters around the ski jump. The 29 -year -old Wellinger has little understanding. “This is just willful and a manipulation that is just a fooling for all other ski jumpers who try to fight fairly,” he said on the show “Hangar-7” by Servus TV.

Supposed peasant victims are not enough for the competition

But what did the willful manipulation look like? Anonymous videos show how suits were illegal in a box in the Rosenborg Trondheim stadium. Suit on, stabilizing volume in, suit: The Norwegians operated around the sensitive fabric that is so important in flight. And obviously got a not insignificant advantage.

Lindvik, who occupies 13th rank in the overall World Cup, suddenly became the outstanding jumper of the World Cup. He should be able to cope with the abrupt silver as long as he stays the titles with the mixed and in the first individual. Trainer Magnus Brevig and two more Mitwisser have suspended the association in the past few days. All jumpers and sports director Jan Erik Aalbu are said to have been unsuspecting – so the argumentation of the Norwegians.

The other associations are not enough for these explanations and a few supposedly simple peasant victims. “It is very difficult to understand that if someone has been at the top three times, it is only so much when it comes to fourth jumping again so much that they only sew a suit there,” said Austria’s sports director Mario Stecher. This is exactly what they claim in the Norwegian association.

The processing is complex and has several dimensions. The most important questions:

What happens to the World Cup results?

What happens to the World Cup results of Trondheim, where Norway’s Nordic titles cleared up titles? “It is definitely fraud. Doping may be another topic, but it is still a criminal resolution somewhere behind when you have seen the videos,” combined Vinzenz Geiger told Bayerischer Rundfunk.

In the event of a cancellation of all results, the violinist who defeated by Norwegians at the World Cup would suddenly be fourfold world champion. FIS race director Sandro Pertile said on Saturday that such a process was not foreseeable. “In principle not. We have a system – when control is finished, it is finished.” But since then the pressure on the FIS has continued to grow.

With relatively little self -criticism. “There are more controls than ever, the network has become more densely. And the jumpers have now also got used to it after initially grumbling,” controller Christian Kathol told the “Kleine Zeitung”.

The band sewn up by Norway could not even be felt. Kathol only discovered it after the publication of the anonymous videos when he cut the suits extra. Three days later, the world association also confiscated the further suits of the Norwegians.

The FIS hopes to learn more about the control chips introduced this winter. Kathol says that you can read about the suits with which suits have already jumped. According to reports, the jumpers should be able to get by with a single suit for the rest of the season and only change if it breaks.

What can be changed in the future?

Those responsible rely on technology. Andreas Bauer as head of the FIS material commission calls for new control methods. “So far, everything has been checked by hand, human measurements cannot be ruled out. We now have to switch to modern technology as soon as possible and use 3D scanners at the airport,” said Bauer of the “Allgäuer Zeitung” as well as the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” and the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”. Ski jumping legend Sven Hannawald had also pleaded for a machine during the control.

Are only the ski jumpers affected?

That is the big question. At Lindvik and Forfang, a competition was cheated knowingly, the association has publicly granted that much. But not only the ski jumper showed strong performances on the ski jump at the World Cup, but also the ski jumpers and both combination teams. The fact that the FIS confiscated the suits of all four Norwegian teams indicates at least a certain suspicion.