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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Andrew Gamble

Winter Olympics controversy as FIVE female skiers disqualified for 'loose suits'

Five female ski jumpers were disqualified from their skiing event after officials deemed their suits to be too loose at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Norway's Silje Opseth and Anna Odine Stroem, Japan's Sara Takanashi, Austria's Daniela Iraschko-Stolz and Germany's Katharina Althaus were all removed from the mixed team ski jumping event on Monday.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) believed the size of their outfits gave the athletes an unfair advantage over their competition.

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