Career
Outside of ski jumping, Bystøl has also had several alcohol-related episodes that have made the front pages of Norwegian newspapers. He continued the season by placing between 10th and 20th in the next three individual events, before going to the 2006 Winter Olympics. He retained his top 15 position in the standings, which enabled him to qualify for the normal hill of the Olympics despite being disqualified in the qualifying run.
Bystøl finished 13th overall in the 2005/06 standings.
Standings
Wins
In 2000, he was sent home from a Continental Cup competition in Innsbruck after a party on New Year"s Eve. Later that year he was caught Driving under the influence with a 2.38‰ blood alcohol content.
He was sentenced to 24 days in prison. In 2003, after some heavy drinking, he fell into the ocean during a fight.
Bystøl"s alcoholism became so bad that it caused him to be kicked off the national ski jumping team in 2004, though he later managed to reclaim his spot on the team
In early 2009, he admitted to having tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, a derivative of cannabis. The sample was delivered in November 2008 in a Norwegian Cup race in Vikersund.