Olympic gold skiing in the Norwegian team loaded in the video -captured equipment trap scandal

Two Olympic gold ski resortments and three employees of the powerful Norway male team were accused of ethics rape on Monday after an investigation into alleged manipulations with ski suits in the world championship.

The Ski and Snowboard International Federation said that the ski ski jumpers Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, two coaches and a service member member were formally accused as part of an investigation into the “team manipulation” in the Nordic Worlds Norway organized in March.

The five were provisionally suspended in March waiting for an investigation, the BBC reported at that time.

Modified costumes can help athletes to fly even more with more aerodynamic resistance.

The accusations, backed by video images and rapid confessions by team officials, shook the United Ski and Norwegian sports communities when they emerged last weekend in Trondheim.

There was no schedule for audiences or verdicts in a case that intensifies less than six months before the next winter Olympic Games are opened in northern Italy.

The prohibitions, fines and disqualification of the results are in the list of punishments open to the FIS Ethics Committee, said the governing body in a statement.

Lindvik’s Gold Medal at the Normal Hill Hill event in the worlds held in Trondheim, in addition to Norway’s bronze at the male team event in La Gran Colina, they are clearly at risk.

Fis said the investigation conducted 38 witness interviews and examined 88 tests, and that no one else will be accused in the case.

Lindvik and Forfang, who were in the team that took the bronze, denied the participation in March, however, they were disqualified from the individual event of the great hills and suspended by FIS for the rest of the season. His positions were signed by the FIS ruling council, said the ruling organ.

Lindvik, 27, is expected to defend his Olympic title next year at the Masculine Hill Hill event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games D’Ampezzo. Forfang, now 30 years old, took the gold of the team in the Grand Hill and individual silver in the normal hill at the 2018 Olympic Games held in South Korea.

The blame admissions were made in March by chief coach Magnus Brevik and the team manager Adrian Livertenn, who said the costumes were altered only before the big hill event.

“We regret like dogs, and I’m very sorry that this happened,” Brevik said at that time. A third team staff, Thomas Lobben, is also accused.

Speaking at the moment when the accusations arose, FIS general manager, Jan-Erik Aalbu, said the team had “tried to deceive the system” placing a reinforced thread in the Lindvik and Forfang monkeys, the BBC reported.

The manipulation was to increase the size of the pre -approved and microchipsed costumes by FIS, and was captured in secret filmed images. It led to formal protests from the teams of Austria, Slovenia and Poland.

Alterations could only be confirmed destroying the seams of the crotch area in the Norwegian ski suits.

Fis said his researchers analyzed five key issues, if: “Magnus Brevig and Thomas Lobben coaches and the suit coach acted in violation of the rules when orchestrating the team manipulation; Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang athletes acted against the relevant rules; the Norwegian team had dedicated themselves to the same rapes of equipment or similar in the past;

The case will be judged by three members of the ethics panel that must reach the verdicts “no later than 30 days after the end of the hearing process,” Fis said.

Fis has already hardened his rules about ski jumps, something that caused a series of disqualifications when athletes met for the first competition of the new season on Saturday. Fis said it was due to technical problems and that he did not suspect “bad intention.”

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