Kaisa Mäkäräinen, who won the popular reality TV competition with Mari Eder, has not yet decided whether she will participate in the biathlon championships as a competitor or as an administrator.
Urheilu’s biathlon expert, one of the most popular Finnish athletes of the 2010s Kaisa Mäkäräinen carried a big secret all through the end of summer and the last autumn.
He knew he had won over his long-time sports colleague and friend Mari Eder’s with the Finnish version of the popular multinational Amazing Race reality TV show, for which both women received a prize of 15,000 euros. The program was broadcast on Nelose.
– Since August, I have been silent about it until the final broadcast. Only one person knew, Mäkäräinen said over the weekend from Lenzerheide in Switzerland, where he was in the biathlon World Cup commentary John I’ll correct it with.
There was no need to plot
Reality TV was not completely unfamiliar ground for Mäkäräinen, and he already knew the winning format well.
– I knew that it doesn’t have to be mean or scheming, like for example in the Survivor program (Nelonen). It was completely different from top sports, but both of them still had intense competitive excitement before filming. In biathlon, we always knew what to prepare for, i.e. if it was a day of two or four shootings and so on. It was not known now.
Speculation down
On Sunday, among other things, a Norwegian Sturla Holm Lägreidin Mäkäräinen, who commented on the damage shot, is casting lots to see if he will participate in his home championships in Kontiolahti in March as a competitor or as an administrator.
– I passed the judge’s card and I need competitions to get a routine.
Speculations about a return to a project aimed at the top Mäkäräinen shot down like a mattress.
– No possibility and no realism. So it won’t happen. It’s kind of funny what kind of talk always comes up if I go to even a fitness event. Even a singer doesn’t stop singing completely, even if he stops gigging.
Another summer, Mäkäräinen visited Venla Lehtonen as a coach many times with an athlete on a roller ski run, but last summer only fifty times.
Back then, the legend offering private coaching services had clients.
– I haven’t done any kind of training to prepare for competition.