Overview
- The independent FIS panel suspended head coach Magnus Brevik, assistant coach Thomas Lobben and suit technician Adrian Livelten for 18 months, backdated to the 2025 world championships and running through September 2026.
- The judges, led by sports law figure Michael Beloff, wrote that cheating is inherently antithetical to sport and endorsed the sanctions sought by FIS.
- Investigators cited secretly filmed footage and forensic inspections that confirmed restitched, enlarged suits, which are normally preapproved and microchipped, by tearing seams in the crotch area.
- Olympic champions Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang served three‑month bans in August, returned to World Cup competition, were disqualified from the large hill in Trondheim, and kept Lindvik’s normal hill title and the team bronze.
- FIS said each official must contribute CHF 5,000 toward case costs, while their lawyers called the decision disproportionately strict and evidence of a newly tougher line in ski jumping enforcement.