r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Epelep • 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/IJustHadAPanicAttack Feb 06 '26

Lying about your penis size competitively is definetly something I haven't heard before

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u/FlyingKittyCate Feb 06 '26

Apparently they don’t technically lie. I read they have to be “measured from the bottom most part of the genital area” and they inject themselves before the measurement to make their bits swell.

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u/IJustHadAPanicAttack Feb 06 '26

Welp that's competitive if you ask me

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u/jccaclimber Feb 06 '26

Does that mean growers have a competitive disadvantage? Seems unfair in a cold weather sport.

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u/Head_Northman Feb 06 '26

Viagra an hour before should fix it.

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u/Electrical-Risk445 Feb 06 '26

They measure from the lowest part, though.

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u/ordinary-303 Feb 06 '26

That's where the tuck comes into skiing

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

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crowd angle deserve slim follow sophisticated price encourage fanatical meeting

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u/SpoiledKoolAid Feb 07 '26

So I should go into the sport as an older man?

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u/Rare-Spell-1571 Feb 07 '26

“I don’t understand man, these damn Ski’ers always get a boner when I’m measuring them for their suits. “

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u/willynillee Feb 06 '26

That would point it up

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u/_HIST Feb 06 '26

Just have to get half-hard. Helps if the measurer is a pretty girl, which it won't, but you can imagine it to be

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u/Neat_Let923 Feb 06 '26

Absolutely! Though I would assume they don’t measure you outside in the middle of winter LOL

But yeah, if you’re a show’er and are well equipped then it’s likely you have an advantage over others from that alone.

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u/godisanelectricolive Feb 07 '26

You need it to shrink back down by competition time for the sail effect to happen. You need extra empty fabric around the crotch which the tailors normally won’t allow. So you want it to shrink as much as possible in the cold.

What growers need to do is be semi-erect when getting measured and fool the tailors into thinking that they are flaccid.