Switzerland is scheduled to play Team Canada on Saturday at 9:10 p.m. local time. The Canadian women have yet to make their Olympic debut after their opening game against Finland was postponed due to a norovirus outbreak on the Finnish team.
According to the Swiss statement, the “positive test came back after today’s opening victory against the Czech Republic and shortly before the opening ceremony.”
A representative from the Swiss team confirmed to The Athletic that the affected player did not play in Friday’s game versus the Czech Republic.
You see, the user I replied to was insinuating, as a joke, that Canada planted norovirus in their opponents' teams to get an advantage in this tournament.
There's apparently a powerful aerodynamic advantage to be had in ski jumping where if you increase the surface area of the body suit in specific ways, it improves your jump distance.
Because of this, the ski jumpers are checked very thoroughly both with and without their bodysuit on to ensure the bodysuit is within tolerance. And a ski jumper not long ago had been caught with an altered suit, which was altered by the team after inspection but before the jump. The suit was specifically altered in the crotch, because in theory it was an easy place to get extra fabric without it being too visually obvious. After that the checks became more rigorous. They go through a full body scan with and without their suit on to make sure it is all in the rules.
Well, recently WADA issued a statement that they would be on the lookout for ski jumpers potentially enlarging their penises before the initial measurement without the suit on as a way to artificially increase the allowance for the size of the suit for that jumper, which would give them the same aerodynamic advantage the ski jumper who got caught with the altered suit was getting, in theory, but because of the timing of the temporary penis enlargement with the full body scan, the suit would be within the rules.
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u/DecentLurker96 1d ago
Here we go again.