Overview
- Norwegian media questioned the legality of Manuel Fettner's binding between the Oberstdorf opener and the Garmisch-Partenkirchen event.
- FIS responded before Garmisch qualifying that the binding has been in use for roughly ten years and is approved.
- Austria's coach Andreas Widhölzl said Fettner uses a commercially available, FIS-cleared model and insisted the equipment is legal.
- FIS material chief Matthias Hafele continues zero‑tolerance checks, highlighted by Timi Zajc's Oberstdorf disqualification for a 3 mm suit discrepancy.
- Karl Geiger, Philipp Raimund and Fettner criticized the Norwegian reports, calling them unproven claims and dismissing them as gamesmanship.