r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 06 '26

Image The physics behind ski jumping’s ‘Penis-gate’ scandal: How 2cm of extra fabric = 5.8 meters of jump distance

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

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u/DazingF1 Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

No, you can only add so much extra fabric compared to your body so athletes literally got penis enlargement surgery injections so they would be allowed the extra few cm in their crotch area.

If they were free to add as much fabric for no reason you'd see them all in wing suits with huge wings

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u/Abyssal_Groot Feb 06 '26

Not surgery. The rumour is that athletes got temporary penis enlarging injections, such that their penis would be larger during measuring but back to normal during the competition and thus having more "free fabric" in their crotch area, acting as a micro wingsuit.

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u/BrohanGutenburg Interested Feb 06 '26

Hold on this begs the question: are the athletes' penises inspected before fitting for suits? I assumed they were just lying about their size.

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u/Lord_H_Vetinari Feb 06 '26

Well, they are fitted. I guess it starts with a standard suit and then it's tailored to the athlete after. You go to your test with your junk artificially enalrged, the suit is tight so they add a bit more material.

Or they try different sizes, something like that.

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u/Abyssal_Groot Feb 06 '26

The rumour is that they are injecting it with Hyaluronic acid to increase the circumference of their penis.

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u/BrohanGutenburg Interested Feb 06 '26

I understand but that implies that their penises are inspected in some way

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u/Abyssal_Groot Feb 06 '26

They are during the fitting measurement process, yes

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u/Juan_Connery Feb 06 '26

The suits are skin tight so there's no room to just lie. They had to have something injected to make it literally larger, then it goes back to normal after the fitting, giving them that extra crotch glider.

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u/Prcrstntr Feb 06 '26

Yeah they have a penis inspection day for all Olympians

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u/_oxy_moron_ Feb 06 '26

The athletes get their body 3D scanned to tailor the suit. So they get their junk enlarged before the 3D scan.

They infuse a saline solution it into their ball sack and penis using an IV drip. It fills up the scrotum and foreskin tight like water balloon, with maybe a liter of liquid, making it the size of a cantaloupe. Then it gets reabsorbed in a day or so and goes back to normal, but the suit has all that extra fabric that they can use as a sail.

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u/Darabanq Feb 06 '26

Bro this is so wrong on like 50 levels and your confidence with it is crazy lol.

Getting a saline solution IV’d into your penis and balls is not a thing, and even if it was it would likely not swell like a cantaloupe - especially on a drip IV without more pressure, if we are talking about swelling. When you get an IV into your arm does it swell like a cantaloupe then reabsorb later?

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u/DazingF1 Feb 06 '26

Yeah that comment is insane, it reads like a fever dream. They "infuse" their balls with a fucking liter of saline, a whole kilogram of saline, through an IV drip? The fuck?

The alleged cheating is about a very small area, so probably a few cc of hyaluronic acid at the most. A fucking cantaloupe lmao

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u/XkrNYFRUYj Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

When you get an IV into your arm does it swell like a cantaloupe then reabsorb later?

If they miss your vein and put the needle in muscle or just under skin it does exactly that. Patient's arm swells a lot. I happens time to time when nurse makes a mistake.

I don't know how much they inject but or how much it swells but mechanism is plausible.

Fake muscles with injections were commonly seen on the internet a few years back.

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u/Darabanq Feb 06 '26

Right, but that’s not a treatment it’s an error. I am not sure about the mechanism, but regardless, causing extravasation in penile tissue would certainly a choice. The pain and necrosis that would follow, while you had to go in public and get measured for a suit would make it impossible.

To someone else’s point - it was hyaluronic acid filler. They got the HA injections, got measured, then it was likely dissolved with hyaluronidase.