The difference between winning an Olympic medal in ski jumping or being disqualified could come down to a bit of fabric. A larger suit can extend a ski jumper's flight by several meters but it could violate rules that have become more stringent after the Norwegian team was caught cheating at last year's world championships by manipulating the crotch area in the uniforms of its top two male jumpers.

With the Olympics near, Norway's ski jumping scandal took its latest turn last week, a controversy that has roiled the sport and country.

Catch up on Olympic ski jumping since the 2022 Beijing Olympics — new events, equipment changes, returning champions, breakout talents and the biggest storylines shaping the men’s and women’s competitions for Milan Cortina 2026.

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Switzerland left 44-year-old ski-jumping great Simon Ammann out of a team of 175 athletes picked Monday for the Milan Cortina Olympics that includes three defending champions.

At 16, Annika Malacinski discovered Nordic Combined — a grueling mix of ski jumping and cross-country skiing

Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill race before the Winter Olympics on Friday and was airlifted from the course for medical checks, a troubling turn for the 41-year-old U.S. ski star just a week before the Milan Cortina Games.

The Cloquet Nordic Ski Club has introduced generations of young people to the Olympic sport, in a community where watching your kids soar through the air is just another Thursday night.

Vonn was seen clutching her left knee after crashing in a race in Switzerland on Friday, the last before the Winter Olympics. Her comeback after retiring in 2019 was one of Team USA's biggest stories.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis., (WLAX, WEUX)-Ben Loomis is not the first Eau Claire native to hit the ski jump at the Olympics. In 1952 and 1956, Bill Olson competed in Oslo, Norway and Cortina, Italy and in 1980 at Lake Placid.