"Two of their gold medal-winning athletes from Beijing 2022, including the defending Olympic champion on the long hill, were banned for three months after a whistleblower published a video of their coach tampering with the (strictly regulated) crotch stitching on their jumpsuits at the Nordic world championships last year, in an attempt to make them more aerodynamic by adding padding. Groin-gate led to a national debate about ethics in sport and a complete overhaul of the rules."
"After a 12-year holdout, the National Hockey League has finally agreed to let its players participate in the Olympics again, which means the ice hockey tournament at Milano Cortina is going to be a proper test of the world's best for the first time since Sochi in 2014. Russia have been banned from the competition, but given the current state of relations between Canada and the US there's still going to be plenty of geopolitical needle."
Norwegian men's ski jumping has been shaken by a crotch-stitch tampering scandal that led to three-month bans for two Beijing 2022 gold medallists and rule overhauls after a whistleblower released a video of their coach adding padding to jumpsuit crotch stitching to improve aerodynamics. Doctors now use 3D measurements to scrutinise athletes. The National Hockey League has ended a 12-year holdout and will return players to Milano Cortina, restoring a full-strength ice hockey tournament despite Russia's ban and intense Canada–US rivalry. A separate controversy erupted in women's skeleton after Canadian coach Joe Cecchini withdrew athletes to secure a teammate's Olympic spot over USA's Katie Uhlaender.
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