Five women from four different countries were disqualified from the mixed team ski jumping event at the Olympics for… baggy uniforms
Photo: Tom Weller/VOIGT/DeFodi Images via Getty Images While we were busy crying over Nathan Chen’s beautiful, record-breaking short program on the ice skating rink Monday night, five women were disqualified from the mixed team ski jumping event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics for… baggy uniforms?
In an unceremonious and perplexing move, five women — Austria’s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, Japan’s Sara Takanashi, Norway’s Anna Odine Strøm and Silje Opseth, and Germany’s Katharina Althaus — were eliminated from the mixed team skip jump competition after their outfits were ruled too loose to compete, per the judges who deemed the looseness would give them unfair advantages in the air.
Katharina Althaus, a disqualified skier from Germany, spoke out against the decision as reported by the Agence France-Presse, accusing the International Ski Federation of “destroying women’s ski jumping.” She added, “I have been checked so many times in 11 years of ski jumping, and I have never been disqualified once, I know my suit was compliant.
Apparently, ski jump event regulations require a very specific suit-to-body-weight ratio, and it seems like even small fluctuations in weight can get a skier disqualified. “It is a bit the result of me being in quarantine and not eating properly the whole week,” said Norwegian athlete Anna Odine Strøm. She also noted that officials used a different method to measure the suit fits.
Women have only been allowed to participate in the ski jump Olympic events since 2014, and the fact that five women across countries were disqualified should raise a few eyebrows. Or, at the very least, might hopefully get the sport to reexamine the suit regulations.
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