What now, Remi Lindholm? This is why the national team’s velikulta raced with a “ventilation hole” in its crotch | Sport

If the performance level of the Finnish women’s team in Jällivaara in the skiing World Cup relay was catastrophic, the men performed comfortably compared to the starting points. Finland was sixth in the team Lauri Lepistö, Markus Vuorela, Remi Lindholm, Miro Karpanen.

“What the hell, Lindholm?”

During the message, however, we had to ask again what the Finnish team’s big man, 25-year-old Remi Lindholm, is up to.

– What the hell, Lindholm…, expert Ville Nousiainen was suddenly taken aback at the start of the third leg.

– Well, there’s a vent, narrator Kimmo Porttila stated.

So Lindholm skied with his ski suit open. It’s a different matter whether Lindholm should separately ventilate his crotch gap during the race, because the man had problems a week earlier in the freezing cold of the World Cup in Ruka. “It’s bad, it’s bad,” Lindholm begged his frozen penis According to Iltalehti.

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Answers were received after the race.

– It is known that you are sensitive to frostbite. You must have skied with the zipper open. How is that? Mightily Laura Arffman asked in the interview.

– I was peeing a couple of minutes before leaving. That toilet broke somehow, so they pulled it open. But now there was nothing frozen, and so.

The ventilation opening therefore did not disturb the race or cause frostbite.

– No. I actually had the same one a couple of days ago when opening bets were made for a distance race. The same toilet was broken and I tried to fix it. I thought it was fixed, but it wasn’t.

Norway was anchored by Sweden’s anchors

In the women’s relay won by Sweden, Finland finished eighth as a team Jasmi Joensuu, Rebecca Immonen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen and Vilma Ryytty. The gap to the top was more than five minutes, and only Kazakhstan remained behind. However, there were, for example, on the sidelines Kerttu Niskanen, Krista Pärmäkoski and Johanna Matintalo.

The Finnish men, on the other hand, showed an excellent performance compared to expectations, when they were missing from the team Iivo Niskanen, Perttu Hyvärinen, Cross mat Hakola, Joni Mäki, Niko Anttola.

The men’s relay consisted of a fascinating duel between Norway and Sweden. Jan Thomas Jenssen27, skied his first World Cup race in Ruka since March 2020 – and immediately won the 20-kilometer freestyle skiing race.

Now Jenssen led Norway to the relay victory when he beat Sweden in the anchor leg Edvin Anger. Norway has won 13 of the last 17 men’s World Cup relays. Russia has three wins in that time, Italy one.

Although, especially on the two traditional sections, the pace was quite calm. Expert Nousiainen concluded that at least Norway did exactly what was necessary.

Lauri Lepistö brought the Finnish men to the first change a couple of seconds from the top. At the end of the second leg, Norway Martin Löwström Nyenget and Sweden Calle Halfvarsson would tear. Finland’s Markus Vuorela entered the second change 15 seconds from the top.

Norway and Sweden escaped, but Remi Lindholm brought Finland to the last change in a group that was fighting for third place. Miro Karppanen got a tough reception in the first World Cup relay of his career. He finally brought Finland to the finish line in sixth place, a difference of 45.7 seconds.

Nice relay debut from Karppa

Lauri Lepistö skied a very smart opening section.

– Yes, I thought it was pointless to rush into it. There were two tracks, so I stayed on my track. I was a bit behind, but I knew that hardly anything would happen on the first puck. Then try to improve the positions in the descents of the second round, it worked out just fine, Lepistö commented after the race with satisfaction.

On Saturday, he finished in 52nd place in the 10 kilometers of freestyle skiing. Fortunately, the pace was calmer now.

– In the end I was able to ski fast. The traditional style is that much better. It helps when you can patch with the tap, if the free foot doesn’t work.

After his part, Vuorela was exceptionally good at the goal.

– The first round was really easy, the second round is quite easy too. Note that there is no sprinter’s blood. When you suddenly increase the speed a lot, you can’t do anything with that acid… My legs were really stiff, terrible acid, Vuorela stated.

Vuorela was the 38th best Finn on Saturday, when Finns, both men and women, had a gloomy day in Jällivaara with a 10 kilometer free. Lindholm was in 42nd place and Karppanen was in 48th place.

The now 25-year-old Karppanen was in a tough spot, as an anchor in his first World Cup relay.

– I was left with a positive feeling. The flow was significantly better than yesterday. Maybe a little face washing could be done, both individually and as a team. The only thing that left me sad was that at the end I was in bad places. There was a bit of a scuffle with Sweden’s second team. One or two places better would have been acceptable.

Also the head coach Teemu Pasanen saddened that Karppase had drama, and he didn’t get to show his character properly. However, he was satisfied with the whole.

– The differences were small. All the men skied well. The team was completely different from last winter’s World Championships, Pasanen referred to the quartet of Hakola, Niskanen, Hyvärinen and Anttola who skied silver in Planica.