Andreas Kuettel is a former world champion from the Duży Zakał from 2009 from Liberc. The Swiss ski jumper at the general classification of the World Cup was in third place in the 2005/2006 season, second only Janne Ahonen and the first Jakub Janda. In 2006 he also took second place in the Nordic tournament. He ended his career after the World Championships in Oslo in 2011. It is interesting that during his career in 2010 he was born with Dorota Pawłowska from Toruń.
Andreas Kuettel described how the ski jumpers once cheated
Currently, the world of ski jumping lives with an overall scandal related to the Norway team. Their future in jumping, but also the entire discipline is under a big question mark after the scandal, which was detected by journalist Sport.pl Jakub Balcerski. It is known that fraudsters have recently taken place, but how was it in the past?
– We sprayed the overalls with hair varnish to reduce air permeability – admitted Andreas Kuettel quoted by “Blick”, describing the backstage of jumping in junior years.
The Swiss newspaper described that Kuettel on the occasion of the first victory in the World Cup in 2005 realized that fraud is also in the ski elite. Then the Austrians' coach was to ask him if he gave jumps in two different overalls. “I only had one,” said the Swiss.
“If you had to go to the control point after the first series, you could assume that you would be saved after the second series,” Kuettel said. Thus, he made it clear that there were plenty of jumpers, who after the first jump changed overalls into larger ones, which broke the rules.
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Interestingly, Kuettel has already talked about fraud in jumping in 2023, indicating that it all began with the Austrians. – They began fraud around the overalls material. Then they gained competition in the international arena – he said.