The World Anti-Doping Company may examine if proof emerges that male ski jumpers are injecting their penises in a bid to enhance sporting efficiency.
In January, German newspaper Bild, exterior reported that jumpers have been injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid earlier than being measured for his or her fits.
Hyaluronic acid, which isn’t banned in sport, can be utilized to extend penis circumference by one or two centimetres.
This might enhance the floor space of their fits throughout competitors, which, in line with FIS, the worldwide ski and snowboard federation, may enhance their flight within the air.
“Each further centimetre on a go well with counts. In case your go well with has a 5% larger floor space, you fly additional,” stated FIS ski leaping males’s race director Sandro Pertile.
Requested concerning the claims in Bild at a press convention on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Wada director basic Olivier Niggli stated: “I’m not conscious of the small print of ski leaping, and the way that might enhance efficiency.
“If something was to come back to the floor, we’d have a look at it and see whether it is doping associated. We do not deal with different [non-doping] technique of enhancing efficiency.”
Clearly entertained by the query, Wada’s Polish president Witold Banka joked: “Ski leaping may be very common in Poland so I promise you I am going to take a look at it.”
FIS communications director Bruno Sassi advised BBC Sport: “There has by no means been any indication, not to mention proof, that any competitor has ever made use of a hyaluronic acid injection to aim to realize a aggressive benefit.”
