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 may 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 additional centimetre on a swimsuit counts. In case your swimsuit has a 5% larger floor space, you fly additional,” mentioned 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 common Olivier Niggli mentioned: “I’m not conscious of the small print of ski leaping, and the way that would enhance efficiency.
“If something was to come back to the floor, we’d take a look at it and see whether it is doping associated. We do not tackle different [non-doping] technique of enhancing efficiency.”
Clearly entertained by the query, Wada’s Polish president Witold Banka joked: “Ski leaping could be very widespread in Poland so I promise you I am going to have a look at it.”
FIS communications director Bruno Sassi informed 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 try to achieve a aggressive benefit.”