The Olympics Can't Stop Talking About 'Penis-Gate'
MILAN—When authorities from the World Anti-Doping Agency delivered their pre-Games briefing here on the eve of the Winter Olympics, they fielded questions about the most urgent issues in global sports. Such as whether ski jumpers are injecting themselves with performance-enhancing supplements to enlarge their genitals.
The reason anyone who hurls themselves off a mountain for a living might perform such a procedure is a matter of aerodynamics. If a ski jumper happens to require a slightly bigger suit, the broader surface area allows him to catch more air and fly even longer.
In a sport where a few inches can make a huge difference, suit size really does matter. As a result, suit tampering has long been a prickly issue at the highest levels of ski jumping, where equipment is rigorously examined and athletes fudge their measurements to gain a few extra inches of material. But until now, nobody had imagined manipulating what went inside the suit.
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To be clear, no athlete in Milan Cortina has been accused of using shots of hyaluronic acid below the belt for the purposes of cheating at ski jumping. All of this started last year when the equipment technician of the powerhouse Norwegian team was secretly filmed making illegal alterations to the suits after they had been cleared by inspectors. When a whistleblower shared the covert footage, investigators went to the scene of the alleged crime: the crotch area.
The cheating scandal ripped through the sport and sparked international outrage. Norway’s top ski jumpers were disqualified from the competition and later sanctioned. The team’s coaches and equipment manager were slapped with lengthy suspensions. The embarrassing national saga brought shame to a country that prides itself on having fun while dominating winter sports.
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