It’s regarding a hole in the ski jumping suit that was visible on TV on Thursday following the qualification in Oberstdorf. Material controller Christian Kathol told the Norwegian TV station NRK: “If he had been with me and I had seen the suit, he would have been disqualified.”
The television images are intended to show that the tear on the right armpit only occurred during the celebration in the run-out of the jump. “That’s because I celebrated too much following the jump,” Wellinger was quoted as saying by NRK. According to the Carinthian Catholic, who will be checked following qualification and who will not will be decided at random.
As a result, no association protested once morest Wellinger, who had already won the qualification. The topic only came up in Germany on Saturday following his victory in the first tour competition on Schattenberg. The 28-year-old won ahead of Japan’s Ryoyu Kobayashi and top favorite Stefan Kraft. A disqualification would have meant that Wellinger would not have started on Friday.
