Olympic athletes using penis enhancements in quest for gold
Filler injections being investigated for potential competitive advantage.
As the Winter Olympics get under way in Milan, the sport of ski jumping is under the microscope with allegations that penis injections are being used as a performance enhancing strategy.
While you wouldn't automatically make the connection between a big dick and medal-winning ski jumps, there is some science at play.
The story was first broken by the media in Germany, with allegations that ski jumpers have been injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid - which is dermal filler. It's a common procedure in the world of aesthetics - injecting your penis with dermal filler increases the girth and weight of your penis, giving you a more prominent "package".
The potential advantage that ski jumpers would be seeking would be to enlarge the measurements on their skin-tight suits.
For precedent, observers point to a scandal that emerged in 2025 when two Norwegian Olympic medalists - Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang - were given 3-month suspensions after the team was found to have secretly adjusted the seams of their suits in the crotch area at the 2025 World Ski Championships. The seam-adjustments made the jumpers’ suits larger and therefore reduced their descent rate due to the increased wingspan.
It's been reported that a 2cm change in the suits was equivalent to an extra 5.8 metres in jump length.
The penis injections appear to be an attempt to game the system when ski jumpers are measured for their suits - measurements are recorded by a 3D scanner from the lowest point of their genitals.
Because injecting fillers into your penis isn't a permanent procedure - the hyaluronic acid is gradually absorbed into your body - measurements taken for the suit will be bigger than what the measurements would be at the point of competition. This means that the competitor will be jumping in a looser suit which will give them a significant advantage.
The Winter Olympic authorities have said that they're investigating the claims but have yet to uncover any concrete evidence of athletes using penis injections for competitive advantage.
