WASHINGTON — The right suit can help send a ski jumper soaring to gold. The wrong suit will get you grounded.

Ski jumping faces more controversy with six months to go until the Winter Olympics after the first high-level competition of the new season saw numerous athletes disqualified over ill-fitting suits. The governing body says it's “perfectly normal.”

The ski jumping world was rocked in March by the discovery of illegally altered suits on the Norwegian team at the world championships. The International Ski Federation investigated officials and athletes over those changes which could help the wearer soar through the air for longer with the suit’s larger surface area.

In Saturday's first event of the 2025-26 season — a summer Grand Prix event on an artificial surface in France — six m

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