Marius Lindvik, of Norway, soars through the air during his first round jump of the ski jumping men's team large hill competition, held March 6, at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway.

It was revealed in video secretly recorded from behind a curtain then sent by a whistleblower to international media. An FIS official said the illegal alterations were subsequently confirmed by tearing apart the seams of the crotch area on the ski suits in question.

Three more Norwegian ski jumpers were suspended on Thursday in a widening cheating scandal that has shocked the sport. World championships medalists Robin Pederson and Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal were provisionally suspended along with Robert Johansson over suspicion of illegal manipulation of jump suits,

It was triggered by a video shot anonymously in Trondheim, Norway, last Friday, the day before large hill event at the Nordic world championships ski jumping event, and leaked to the media. After Saturday's competition,

Now ski jumping has its own scandal that escalated Wednesday. Cheating by Norway team officials manipulating ski suits has shaken a national reputation for fair play and high-minded principles at their home Nordic world championships,

Olympic gold medal ski jumpers Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang have been suspended and put under formal suspicion during an investigation into claims they used manipulated ski suits.