=Marius Lindvik, of Norway, soars through the air during his first round jump of the ski jumping men’s team large hill competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Cheating by Norway team officials manipulating ski suits has shaken a national reputation for fair play and high-minded principles at their home Nordic world championships.

Three more ski jumpers have been suspended in a cheating scandal. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation says Robin Pederson, Kristoffer Sundal and Robert Johansson have been provisionally suspended due to suspicion of manipulation of equipment.

It was revealed in video secretly recorded from behind a curtain then sent by a whistleblower to international media. An FIS official said the illegal alterations were subsequently confirmed by tearing apart the seams of the crotch area on the ski suits in question.

It was triggered by a video shot anonymously in Trondheim, Norway, last Friday, the day before large hill event at the Nordic world championships ski jumping event, and leaked to the media. After Saturday's competition,

Olympic gold medal ski jumpers Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang have been suspended and put under formal suspicion during an investigation into claims they used manipulated ski suits.