The bizarre disqualifications affected five female athletes, taking four of the sport’s heavyweight nations—Germany, Japan, Norway, and Austria—out of the inaugural mixed team ski jumping competition at the Beijing Olympics.
A series of bizarre disqualifications involving loose-fitting suits marred the inaugural mixed team ski jumping competition at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday. The disqualifications affected five female athletes, taking four of the sport’s heavyweight nations—Germany, Japan, Norway, and Austria—out of the event. When it became clear that the jumpers’ suits had been deemed too baggy, ostensibly giving them a flight advantage, officials were quick to express their outrage.
The Germans’ national team coach, Stefan Horngacher, echoed the sentiment, saying, “For me it is a puppet theater… I am unbelievably angry and I don’t understand it. We had super jumps. You can only be disappointed with this.” Norwegian chief of sports Clas Brede Braathen said he was “in pain on behalf of our sport” and questioned why it was “only girls being disqualified.” Though ski jumping has been an Olympic sport since 1924, women were only allowed to compete for the first time in 2014.
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