I admire Marcin Gortat, an NBA player for many years .
Marcin Gortat continues to sarcastically refer to the current government in the United States after President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance treated Volodymyr Zelensky during their meeting in the Oval Office on Friday. This time, the former NBA player published a recording of JD Vance on his account on the "X" portal, who is being called a "Russian puppet."
Gortat posted a video of Vance skiing with a description of the whole situation. "Vice President JD Vance skis in Vermont. In the queue for the lift someone calls him "Putin's puppet", and while going down a blue run (like grandma) he is almost rammed first by a snowboarder and then by another skier," we read in the comment. The former basketball player posted the video with expressive laughter icons.
Two Norwegian ski jumpers disqualified in Trondheim competition today for illegal tricks with their skiing suits. It is simply unbelievable what people are able to do to win the second and fifth place.
Why do we mention Norwegian cheaters in the Polish thread?? Cos the whole scandal was disclosed by a Polish sport commentator.
Jacek Balcerski from Sport.pl published recordings from the Norwegians' workshop, where he noticed illegal changes being made to the uniforms. Two protests in this matter were filed by, among others, Poles and Austrians. After the competition, Sandro Pertile announced that there had been fraud and that it was "one of the darkest days in the history of ski jumping".
Can you imagine some of them are still biting back and refuse to apologise??? "It's pathetic game of other nations," Eversen complained, mentioning the Polish-Austrian-Slovenian trio. "Sending undercover photographers to film what's going on behind the scenes of other teams, I think, is awful. The Norwegian ski jumping support organization has to accept this and face it. There's no point in apologizing," the former ski jumper believes.
Norwegian cheaters, shame on you! Tfu!!! You cheated but you have no civil courage to admit it.
Lindvik, who said goodbye to his silver medal in shocking circumstances, briefly commented on the allegations of tampering with the costumes. That's not true. I feel a strong rage. [Rivals] are behaving terribly unsportsmanlike~ - he told NRK.
This is not the end. The media are hearing from other Norwegian representatives. There is absolutely no remorse or sense of shame in them. The blame seems to be shifted to someone else, and Norwegians appear to be acting according to the slogan - if someone grabs your hand stealing, say it's not yours.
There is great indignation in the Norwegian team. However, they are not focusing on the fact that they were caught messing around with the outfits, but on the fact that someone secretly recorded the procedure and the video saw the light of day. "First of all, I don't see what's wrong. Secondly, it is rude to secretly film others . If they present it this way now, it means that they want war. These are people we trusted, and besides, there is a gentlemen's agreement on how to function in the environment," Forfang gets angry, quoted by Dagbladet. And when asked what he thinks about the fact that the case is described in the Polish media as a huge scandal, he answers briefly but eloquently.
They make a mountain out of a molehill
The head of Norwegian ski jumping, Jan-Erik Aalbu , has strongly criticized Poland . He suggests that the Polish delegation raised the issue because our representatives were not doing well on the ski jump and an alternative topic had to be found. He does not see any scandal in the issue of the clothing, and calling it that is - in his opinion - a great exaggeration and an unnecessary attack. "Poland would like to think so [that it is a scandal]. They have their own problems with ski jumping, so they have to blame something else " he says bluntly in Dagbladet.
Norwegian cheaters, shame on you! Tfu!!! You cheated but you have no civil courage to admit it.
After reading comments on our forum and other sites, Norwegians realised that their impudent denials are making their deplorable situation much much worse. Today, they admitted to cheating and some were even suspended.
Today, they admitted to cheating and some were even suspended.
Retired Norwegian jumpers admit they were already cheating years ago, also when competing in Poland. The scandal involving Norwegian ski jumpers continues! Fredrik Bjerkeengen, a former ski jumper who was also responsible for the Norwegian national team's ski suits in the past, revealed in an interview with vg.no that tampering with the team's uniforms had been going on for years. As an example, he cited the situation in... Zakopane, when two Norwegian ski jumpers stood on the podium. He also says that the former sports director of the team knew about the whole incident. Although Clas Brede Braethen denies the allegations, Bjerkeengen says it straight: he's lying. And he reveals the details.
He revealed how in 2021, during the World Cup competitions in Zakopane, the suits were smeared with... wood glue.
"We mixed wood glue and painted the suit with it. The glue became shiny and disappeared, and the suit passed all the inspections," he admitted. This was supposed to make the suit stiffer, which would have a positive effect on its aerodynamics.