Ma³ysz thunders and FIS orders to calm down. Changes after the “campaign against Poles”

Since the competitions in Ruce, there has been a lot of talk about the confusion related to the Polish team and their overalls. There was increased checking, discussions during and after the checks, but also disqualifications. New solutions are already being implemented, which, as announced by Mika Jukkara, the new hardware controller in, are to be even more.

“Dzióbek” in Polish overalls. Małysz said that “someone dripped”

The suits, and more precisely their stretching, was already a controversial topic at the World Cup competition in Ruce a few weeks ago. TVP Sport journalist, Michał Chmielewski shared on Twitter how the Finns showed on social media “combining” Poles with their costumes before the jump. On the “Onkonalka” profile, a close-up of the jumpsuit of one of the Polish jumpers with a characteristic “beak” protruding.

And the Poles had to undergo additional control in the Vistula. Effect? Maciej Kot’s disqualification after Friday’s qualifying jump and a long discussion with Mika Jukkara on the same day. He wanted to know exactly what his players should avoid, and what was right and what was not.

– Someone informed the FIS that we have forbidden suits – assessed it in Wisła. According to him, the equipment controller himself admitted that someone gave him a signal that Polish jumpers were up to the equipment. – It’s about the so-called spout in the crotch, which is not allowed in overalls. Of course the players have been measured and everything is fine. I don’t know where these innuendo come from. We’d be fools to do something like that, knowing that it wasn’t allowed. Maybe someone did it on purpose to send our jumpers for inspection and break them down – he added.

Another thing is that the problems didn’t always come from nothing. Poles checked new suits almost every weekend. However, it is no wonder in the case of weaker results and the beginning of the season, when you always want to choose the best equipment, and even keep it for the next weeks and target events. For this, training is not always enough. – It’s a theme-river. But this is also a topic that we want to leave for ourselves. Not everything is visible on TV, we do not show everything, we keep something for ourselves -.

The controller explained the increased checking of Poles. “It’s like Formula 1”

Already then, in Poland, we asked Mika Jukkara what he feared regarding the irregularities with the Doleżal’s team suits. – It’s not like one of the national teams let me know that I should check it out. Got a tip, but from our hardware inspection group last weekend in Ruce. Sometimes it is like that. I get a message on the walkie-talkie in advance: check the bottom of this and this. Then we check and if we find a problem, we evaluate with everyone in the team what to do with it – he explained.

According to Jukkara, everything took place so that such situations would not arise in the future. – I invited them to a discussion, I wanted to explain what exactly is going on. Everything is fine on my part, I wanted and I will want to be transparent, clean, so I prefer to talk to a team that does not understand something or is doing something wrong every time – he pointed out. – Nobody can prevent other representations from “spying” on others. Then it comes out that someone has noticed something and probably talks about it loudly. It’s like in: everyone wants to find something and also looks at rivals, wants to notice what they are preparing and be sure that it complies with the regulations. But believe me: we already knew this before anyone would argue that Poles were doing something wrong. After our talks, everything should be fine – he assured. But, apparently, not everything has been clarified.

Another disqualification. Małysz thundered about the “campaign against the Poles”. “This is a shock”

In the next weekend of the World Cup in Klingenthal, there were more controls on the Poles. Jukkara probably wanted to check if the jumpers and staff complied with his requests and instructions. And another glitch appeared: the Finn disqualified Paweł Wąsk, who had a chance to score World Cup points in the Sunday competition. – We’re in shock. We feel as if the campaign was upon us -. – yesterday, after each jump, he was checked, which does not happen. The staff, after all, measures the suits. Today even twice and everything turned out fine. It is a shock. Paweł could take a good place today – he added.

– Adam reacts quickly to this kind of situation. He can judge whether this is a deliberate action or whether it just happened to us. I am claiming that if the controller wants to find any place where the suit is out of order, he will find it. It is strange that Paweł’s suit was checked even at the trouser leg, and that the irregularity was found there. Sometimes a waist circumference or a chest circumference is enough, because that’s where it matters the most. If you search for the entire suit, you will find about half a centimeter in everyone – assessed the president of the Polish Ski Association.

Doleżal wants a discussion. He has doubts. Controversy also among Norwegians and Germans

The activist added that he saw with the naked eye how the Norwegians stretched on the starting beam and bulges were formed, indicating that there was a lot of slack in their suits. Equipment creator from Slovenia, Peter Slatnar, in an interview for the daily “Delo” even indicated that Alexander Stoeckl’s players had new materials that “somehow slipped through the equipment inspection”. Before the World Cup competition in Engelberg, the topic also returned on the “Onkonalka” profile. This time, unnatural shapes of jumpsuits appeared on Instagram.

A new direction has emerged: why are Poles more tested, since controversies are among many nations? “I have some conclusions to what the rest of the other representations are doing.” We will try to direct it all so that we do not stay somewhere behind. It is not about copying solutions, but there are things that can be discussed – said Michal Doleżal after qualifying in Engelberg. The game of poker started behind the scenes in jumping. This season and the success of Anze Laniska’s flat skis at the beginning of the competition, or the special grooves in the Norwegian skis in recent competitions, show best that you can now play a lot with the equipment.

Jukkara did not want to be the new “FIS Police”. When Kobayashi was disqualified, his heart beat faster. “But it’s about the effect, not the emotions”

Jukkara is to be the arbitrator. The Finn, who this season has worn the shoes of a man known for the last 30 years as “FIS Police”, ie Sepp Gratzer. The German retired at the end of last season and Jukkara was chosen as his successor. – I didn’t want to be like him. He was a man-institution, he helped me a lot over the summer when we worked together on the Summer Grand Prix series, but he invented some of the rules and was the face of the whole hardware part of the sport. I entered here as someone new and I want to do it on my own terms – Jukkara told us.

Already on the third day of competition in the new season, he disqualified the then runner-up in the World Cup. – Do your hands tremble more in such a situation? No. Perhaps, for a moment, my heart skipped a beat. But it’s not about the emotions, but the effect. I do not want to find irregularities in the players, individually, whether he is the best or not. But if I find, I do the same in every case – described Jukkara. The new controller announced from the very beginning that there will be more checks and that it will serve something. And so it was Friday in Engelberg.

A new virtual line in jumping. And there will be more controls and more changes

Jukkara called everyone after qualifying. He measured the step and, as he explains, collected data. – It’s our inner decision to do this. We want to set appropriate guidelines so that the rules are clear for everyone and the suits look similar, there is no room for manipulation with the rules. In fact, we’ve had a lot of conversations with the coaches lately about what can and cannot be done. Especially when stretching the wetsuits at the top of the hill. There were behaviors that nobody wanted to see. And we introduced a new rule: virtual line. It starts five bars up from where the hardware controller stands. In this space, the competitor can hardly stretch the suit at all. We have it clearly established. Previously, they could do more, they were limited only when they showed up at the controller. They couldn’t break the rules, but the lack of this space created a lot of bending the rules. We didn’t like it, so now the five beams just need to go down, holding the skis, before the check, ‘revealed the Finn.

– Now the checks will be carried out “normally”, one at a time, but the jumpers have to get used to the fact that there are and will be a lot of them – he admitted. – This is our goal: more control, more accuracy, less controversy, change for the better. And to all those who have been influenced by the cases to date, or to seek out conspiracies, a little peace. Nobody wants wrong here, nobody will be harmed. I can also say that the situation is improving. At the beginning of the season, stretching the suits and breaking the rules was much worse – added Mika Jukkara.

Saturday’s competition in Engelberg with five Poles at the start will start at 4:00 PM. It will be preceded by a trial series scheduled for 3:00 PM. Live coverage on Sport.pl and in the Sport.pl LIVE application.