Winter Olympics rocked by second penis-gate as athletes ‘stuff clay down their pants’

The Winter Olympics is due to start next month, but one sport that has been rocked by the “penis-gate scandal” has escalated after new X-rated accusations

The Winter Olympics has been rocked by a second “penis-gate” on the eve of the showpiece in Milano Cortina.

Earlier this month, ski-jumping was hit with accusations of athletes injecting their nether regions to increase its length allowing for suit measurements to be larger in the crotch area. And new X-rated reports have hit the sport, with a former jumper claiming stars “stuffed tons of clay in their underwear”.

Mika Vermeulen, who had dreams of becoming a ski-jumper before switching to cross country skiing, has claimed several of his rivals cheated by filling their pants with “modelling clay”. He told Norwegian outlet NRK: “People were constantly cheating.

“They stuffed tons of modeling clay into their underwear to achieve a bigger jump. This allows the ski-jumper to cheat and gain more suit surface area, which gives an advantage in the air.

“When I was first asked to take measurements, the older and more experienced jumpers came to me and said, ‘It is very important that you tape your penis down.

“‘Because this will make your stride length one or two centimeters lower.’”

He continued: “I can say this with 100% certainty: Everyone who is disqualified in ski jumping and Nordic combined is cheating deliberately. And they simply justify it by saying: ‘Yes, yes, but everyone else is doing it too.’

“I’m not saying everyone cheats. I’m just saying that if cheating isn’t strictly punished, you create a bad culture. And that’s a dangerous culture. You create a culture where it’s okay to look for loopholes.

“If you’re caught cheating, you should be banned for a long time. You shouldn’t get any cards. You’ve cheated.”

Norwegian stars Johann Andre Forfang and Marius Lindvik will miss the games as they are serving bans for manipulating their suits.

The national team had already admitted to manipulating costumes at a World Cup in Trondheim last year, by sewing in a reinforced thread in the suit, which would allow more lift in the air.

“The way I consider this…we have cheated,” said Jan-Erik Aalbu, general manager of the federation. “We have tried to cheat the system. That is unacceptable.”