12, 13, 22, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 32, 33, 35, 35, 37, 37, 38, 38, 40, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 56, 59, 60, 64, 70 and 74. When you spin the average of these, the dial shows a reading of 40.6.
It has the balance of the country of cross-country skiing, Finland, in terms of athletes who persevered to the finish line, when a total of four freestyle skiing competitions have been competed in the World Cup. In Kuusamo, the competition format was a mass start, in Jällivaara last weekend, a split start.
The gap to the top has been measured by a calendar, so to speak, and such a stomach-churning has not been experienced since the season 2001-2002, when Finland’s elite for some reason moved aside from competitive activities for a certain period. In fact, such was not experienced even in the 2001-2002 season, as the attached article shows.
Before getting into the root causes of what we have just seen, let’s go through the compiled explanations. There has been a competitive spirit eaten up by hard training (Perttu Nice one), again frozen genitalia (Remi Lindholm), the total burden caused by the military (Niko Anttola), illness (Jasmi Joensuu) and traditionally slow-starting diesels (Kerttu Niskanen).
I’m sure each of them has very relevant explanations, but they change the big picture about as much as trying to extinguish hell by throwing a snowball at it.
No equipment found
But all in all, the most confusing explanations regarding the early season have been heard from the direction of the maintenance truck and mainly from the head coach Teemu I’m crazy with the mouth. Apart from a few exceptions, Finnish athletes have not been able to find freestyle skis that work in bitter cold.
At this point, you can only ask what?
In other words, Finnish skiers do not have freestyle skiing equipment that works in extreme cold. You can’t really believe this by looking at the map, but in the world of top sports, everything is possible.
Fluoride-free creams are the new normal for cross-country skiing. Finland has tackled this challenge in practice by allowing the use of fluorine creams in all other competitions except the World Cup, where it is supervised by the International Ski Federation.
Perhaps the cost-saving measures of the Finnish Ski Federation have kept the testing numbers of new cream products too low, but the competing countries seem to have a big head start in this sector as well.
Roponen’s service
A 45-year-old was also able to ski in Jällivaara Riitta-Liisa Roponen, who became the oldest athlete in the history of the World Cup to start an individual competition. Sometimes Roponen has retired from being a top athlete and sometimes he is back in it, whatever of course awakened also wonder.
You can see it this way or that Roponen is doing his younger siblings a huge favor by forcing them to stand in front of a mirror. Hardly made it to forty Kaisa Mäkäräinen too it would be far from the status of the world cup in Finland’s current reality if you took the exact competition under your microscope and took the trouble to keep yourself really tough for a moment. This is the situation.
Fluoride creams, fiberglass, Gundersen competition format, sprint skiing – and figure skating. All this and much more has been opposed in the history of Finnish skiing or at least considered a fleeting nonsense, like something like the internet.
Skiing styles were separated from each other for the season 1985-1986, almost four decades ago. During the past two decades, the prize medal for long-distance trips has been won in freestyle skiing competitions Matti Heikkinen, Pärmäkoski and Kerttu Niskanen. At the international summit, or at least in the immediate sense, Roponen has also praised, Teemu Kattilakoski, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Slender sprig Fibrous (now Sarasvuo).
The heaviest skiing
Skating on snow dried by severe frost is the heaviest form of competitive skiing.
Two weekends have starkly revealed the basic problem of Finns: muscle condition and endurance, and through them frequency, are once and for all not enough. We are reaping the benefits of how freestyle skiing has been treated since its dawn. This harsh fact is not going to be changed by talk of equipment or ointments.
There is a place for face washing in Östersund on Sunday. If the result is the same stomach-churning as in Kuusamo and Jällivaara, let’s at least know that Härmälä’s ice skating rockets can’t be found with cannons even in the cold. The weather forecast promises minus 4-6 degrees in Östersund for the weekend.