Nordic World Ski Championships

Austria wins two gold medals at the green table

Lisa Hirner could inherit gold instead of bronze.(Bild: Andreas Tröster)

It hit the suit debate like a bombshell. Norway's ski jumping management admitted that they had deliberately cheated. Now Austria's federation is demanding the disqualification of all Norwegian jumpers, i.e. the revocation of their medals in ski jumping and Nordic combined. Austria would then inherit two gold medals.

"We made changes to the suits in the knowledge that they were not legal. The way I see it, we cheated," Norway's ski jumping director Jan Erik Aalbu cleared the air at a press conference on Sunday.