Eveliina Piippo, who broke her back, has already returned to the track – “It hasn’t been a terribly easy life in the last year” | Sport

Eveliina Piippo got the competition license quite quickly. He was part of the team when Vuokatti Ski Team Kainuu secured the victory in the relay cup of the Finnish Cup.

Eveliina Piippoa has been tested recently. Vuokatti Ski Team Kainuu skier has been suffering from back problems, but the pains had subsided. However, in February, the skier slipped on the stairs and broke his back.

However, Piippo was able to get back to real action and the spring hang when he got his competition license a little early. Piippo, who was on the sidelines for a month and a half, skied his team’s second leg in the Rovaniemi Finnish Cup relay. He laughed and said that he gave this to his teammate, who is known as a sprinter Katri Lylynperä the opportunity to bet on the fifty uphill skis.

Piippo brought his team in as the fifth substitute, but the team’s anchor Jasmin Kähärä bumped it up to second. The opening section was skied Vilma Nissinen. It was enough for Vuokatti to win the relay cup of the Finnish Cup.

– It would be nicer to ski a little closer to your own level, but it’s really nice to be here, Piippo said after his part.

– I get along better with upper limb injuries than with lower limb injuries. It’s not the rehabilitation itself that’s the problem, but being able to wake up from that bed in the morning. All the time it gets easier when you get species back.

So there have been some pretty difficult moments in the last few weeks?

– It hasn’t been terribly easy life here in the last year, Piippo admitted, his voice breaking.

Piipo’s season was challenging even before the back fracture. His coach Santeri Erola told Urheilu in February that the skier already had challenges during the training season. Piippo hopes to make it to the training season intact.

– Now that I didn’t fall today and took it easy there, I hope I can get there unharmed. That would be the goal this spring, that I could go into the early season healthy.

Rovaniemi Suomen Cup relay was overwhelmingly won by the Ikaalist Athletes team Katariina Lonka, Krista Pärmäkoski and Hilla Niemelä. Vuokatti Ski Team was second and Kainuu won the tight battle between Kainuu Ski Team and Vantaa Ski Team. They skied in the team Anne Kyllönen, Anni Alakoski and Johanna Ukkola.