World Anti-Doping Company chiefs will examine claims male ski jumpers are injecting their penises in a bid to enhance sporting efficiency, if a grievance is made.
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 could improve the floor space of their fits throughout competitors, which, in accordance with FIS, the worldwide ski and snowboard federation, might improve 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 in regards to the claims in Bild at a press convention on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Wada director normal Olivier Niggli stated: “I’m not conscious of the main points 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 handle different [non-doping] technique of enhancing efficiency.”
Clearly entertained by the query, Wada’s Polish president Witold Banka joked: “Ski leaping could be very common in Poland so I promise you I am going to have a look at it.”
