Anti-doping officials at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games reported on Thursday, February 5, that they will investigate suspicions about a method possibly used by ski jumpers to increase the size of their penis, with the aim of improving their results.

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"Ski jumping is very popular in Poland, so I promise you that I will get on with this," said the Polish president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Witold Banka, when asked about this issue at a press conference.

These suspicions, revealed by the German press, are based on the theory that ski jumpers would be undergoing injections of hyaluronic acid to increase the size of their crotch and thus modify the width of their competition suit.

That procedure would allow jumpers to get a greater surface area in the air to fly longer and therefore land further.

"I don't know the details of ski jumping, or how it can improve performance, but if it happens, we will examine all information to see if it is actually related to doping," said Olivier Niggli, director general of WADA.

In January, in the German newspaper Bild, Kamran Karim, a doctor at the Maria Hilf hospital in Krefeld (near Düsseldorf), had declared that it was possible to create a "temporary and visible increase in the penis thanks to injections of paraffin or hyaluronic acid", but that it was a practice that entailed "risks".

Ski jumpers' competition jerseys are highly regulated and can lead to sanctions if a change occurs.

Three members of the Norwegian ski jumping team's coaching staff were suspended for 18 months in January by the Ethics Commission of the International Ski Federation (FIS) after being accused of tampering with suits during the cross-country skiing world championships in Trondheim, Norway, in 2025.

The matter broke out when two Norwegian jumpers, Marius Lindvik - who will defend his Olympic title on the large springboard at these Games - and Johann Andre Forgang had been disqualified after a control of their suit.

They were then suspended for three months by the FIS. The Norwegian Federation ended up admitting that they had been modified voluntarily, but that the two jumpers were not responsible for that trick.

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