Disqualification of Eisenbichler after internet action and denunciations of rivals? Ma³ysz went to the controller’s booth

just after the equipment controller Mikka Jukkar disqualified Paweł Wąsk for the second time this winter, he went to the equipment controller booth – reported Kacper Merk from Eurosport. The white-and-reds have a hard time with Finn since the beginning of the season. The controller frequently and thoroughly checks the equipment of our players. But not only Poles have a problem with controls – many national teams point out that sometimes the disqualifications are surprising, and at the same time, when it is evident that some jumpers have too large overalls, there are no exclusions.

Adam Ma³ysz, after Saturday’s competition, also went to an interview with the director of the World Cup. He told him and Mice Jukkar that this could not continue, and the equipment issue was going in the wrong direction. And it’s not just a sentence, because everyone can see what is happening.

Narrow disqualification. How could this happen?

In the case of Paweł Wąsk, the disqualification for the first time concerned too large circumference of the thigh in the suit. Now the disqualification was imposed because the suit was too wide in the belly area. This is a surprising exclusion that Mustache was jumping in a new suit, it was probably only his second jump in this outfit, so it cannot be said that the outfit was worn out.

If it was a new outfit, it means that it had been checked several times by our trainers recently, this is the procedure. – In one part the suit was too big, and in other parts I had no doubts. Other disqualifications today also resulted from this. However, I hope that Paweł Wąsek will be even stronger in the next competition – Mika Jukkara told us.

However, it is said in the community that if Jukkara wants to disqualify someone, he will check the outfit until he finally finds something. But not only ours emphasize that the new controller looks at ski jumpers with a much more strict eye. – Poles are struggling with technical problems, and this year there is no room for mistakes. We can see what happened when Granerud, Eisenbichler or Stefan Kraft made technical mistakes. This season the suits are tighter, we have a new gear controller to keep an eye on that. And if you start the season with a few bad results then there is pressure, Thomas Thurnbichler, assistant to Andreas Widhoelzl, the Austrian national team coach, told us. However, other countries are starting to get irritated because there are many examples. And it is glaring in the eyes.

Others stretch the rules even more?

From the jumping environment, it was possible that “these controls cannot be looked at anymore”. If only because each fan can easily recognize which jumper is up and his suit is significantly too large. After the Ga-Pa jumps, the media circulated a photo of Jan Hoerl’s jumpsuit, which looked like the legendary Florian Liegl’s jumpsuit from years ago. – This is what it looks like in the front, and when you look at it in flight, there is even more space there – we heard from other teams then, because the rivals also analyze and write down everything.

Some experts are even more irritated by the German suits, especially Markus Eisenbichler. Here you can hear that the German was disqualified on Saturday, although everyone saw that in Innsbruck and in the competition in Bischofshofen on Thursday, he had even bigger suits. You can hear from the world of jumping that the Eisebichler case had been buzzing for several days, and the FIS was about to receive several interventions regarding the German’s suit. It was also loud on the internet.

Every now and then a photo appears on the Internet, after which you can hardly believe that such an outfit has passed the equipment inspection. The popular “nipple” of excess material in the crotch? Rolling overalls on departure? Or maybe the excess material on the sides of the thighs that almost forms wings in the air? This is shown in the photos. The next teams get irritated, and in FIS they only hear: The equipment was correct on the control, we can’t do anything about it. On Saturday, however, it was possible, though … Eisenbichler had a smaller suit than the last time. At least that’s what it follows from being analyzed by the coaches from the different teams on site.

Markus Eisenbichler screen Eurosport

There is action on the Internet, there is a reaction from Jukkara

The most striking thing, however, is that as soon as some photos appear on the Internet suggesting that something may be wrong with the outfit of one of the players, a moment later Jukkara enters the game and disqualifies such a jumper. It cannot be a coincidence that before the season one of the Finnish experts had a lot of grudge against the Poles’ overalls, and then the Poles were massively controlled throughout December. And when pictures of a very large Eisenbichler suit appeared on the Internet, suddenly in the Saturday competition in Bischofshofen, Germany was disqualified in the second series. It looks more like an ad hoc action than an actual fight against regulatory fraud.

And there will be even more of this in the coming days. The FIS got used to the fact that a few weeks before the most important event of the season, a mass disqualification of the favorites begins. Then the rule: “give the man, the paragraph will always be found”.

Changing the way of taking measurements didn’t help either?

It is hard to understand how the jumpsuit of the jumper in flight is definitely too big, and when the jumper stands for measurements at the top of the hill or later pulls off the suit, where Jukkara measures it on the table, everything is within the accepted framework.

A year ago, the Finns compromised the FIS measurements. The coach of the Finnish team of combiners admitted that his team had deliberately fooled the equipment controllers. And for the pre-season measurement, she stood with underwear filled from underneath with other materials. Thanks to this, it was possible to obtain a few additional centimeters of the player’s body, and this of course translates into the possibility of sewing the outfit with a de facto step lowered by a few centimeters. Now, however, the measurements were about to change. We hear that for the pre-season measurements, the jumpers were wearing special underwear, which also made it possible to check if there was anything inside. It turns out, however, that it probably did not help much, or the sewing suits found another amazing method of self-stretching of the suits in flight and their quick return to their original size.

What are the rules now?

The suit should be slightly larger than the competitor’s body, but according to the rules adopted by the FIS, it must not be larger than three centimeters (for women a maximum of four) in relation to the various body circumferences. The only place where the FIS allows the possibility of a much wider suit is around the ankles and lower calves, because this is where jumping shoes are put on before the suit is pulled on. That is why in those areas the outfit may be up to 10 centimeters wide.

In recent years, the FIS has fine-tuned the regulations for coveralls. One of the best elements was to be a non-elastic strap sewn into the suit, which must adhere to the player’s body at hip level. Thanks to this, they wanted to avoid a situation in which the jumper would additionally stretch the suit. When we ask the jumpers if it works, they only smile eloquently.