The skiers tried to find an extra edge to fly farther by adjusting the crotch of their suits. “We regret it like dogs,” the team’s coach said.

Norwegian Olympic medal-winning ski jumpers Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang and three team officials are provisionally suspended for using manipulated suits to "cheat the system".

Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang were disqualified after a World Championships event on Saturday for illegal suits.

Three more ski jumpers have been suspended in a cheating scandal. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation says Robin Pederson, Kristoffer Sundal and Robert Johansson have been provisionally suspended due to suspicion of manipulation of equipment.

Robert Johansson, Robin Pedersen and Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal have become the latest Norwegian ski jumpers to be suspended due to manipulated jumpsuits, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) announced on Thursday.

Team officials are accused of altering athletes' suits to enhance their aerodynamics. The suspension by International Ski and Snowboard Federation (IFS) follows last week's FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

=Marius Lindvik, of Norway, soars through the air during his first round jump of the ski jumping men’s team large hill competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Norwegian ski jumpers Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang were suspended on Wednesday for allegedly manipulating equipment at the world championships in a case described as "extremely disturbing and disappointing".

Three additional Norwegian ski jumpers have been suspended after a cheating scandal at the Nordic skiing world championships, ruling body FIS said in a news conference on Thursday. Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal,

Cheating by Norway team officials manipulating ski suits has shaken a national reputation for fair play and high-minded principles at their home Nordic world championships.

It was revealed in video secretly recorded from behind a curtain then sent by a whistleblower to international media. An FIS official said the illegal alterations were subsequently confirmed by tearing apart the seams of the crotch area on the ski suits in question.