OBERHOFEN AM THUNERSEE, Switzerland — Two Olympic gold medalists have accepted a three-month ban after a scandal over tampering with ski jump suits for Norway men’s team at this year’s world championships.

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) said Saturday that Norwegians Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang were “willing to accept” the sanctions proposed by the federation’s ethics committee.

FIS said Lindvik and Forfang, who were provisionally suspended in March, “were not charged with actual knowledge of the manipulations,” but that they "should have checked and asked questions about the night-time adjustments."

The length of the sanction — " from which the period of the provisional suspension already served shall be deducted" — opens the way for both men to

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