The Finnish Ski Federation and Team Electrofit will bring the national team’s service truck to the first snow camp in Olos.
10:17•Updated 10:39
The gloomy financial situation of the Finnish Skiing Association has been a big topic of conversation during the winter season. It has led, among other things, the Skiing Federation to collect deductibles from national team athletes participating in world cups.
One issue to be resolved has been getting the national team’s service truck to Oloksen first snow camp.
Now the Ski Federation announces that the truck will be brought to Muonio in cooperation with Team Electrofit.
Electrofit is a company offering coaching services for endurance sports, and Team Electrofit is a private racing team for cross-country skiing. It belongs to the starting season 12 athletesas top names, among others Vilma Nissinen, Anni Alakoski, Markus Vuorela and Lauri Lepistö.
Thanks to the cooperation, the maintenance costs in Olos will drop significantly and the athletes will have the opportunity to leave their competition skis in the truck before the national team camp in Ruka and the opening of the World Cup. Electrofit skiers, on the other hand, get to test their skis for the competition season and get full ski maintenance for the cannon snow competitions in Olos on November 15-17.
Olos offers good conditions for preparing for the World Cup in Ruka, which is why there are traditionally many top skiers, both domestic and international.
– We are happy that the cooperation with Electrofit is so smooth. Now we were able to jointly organize a service truck for Olosi, which serves all our athletes. Without cooperation, it would not have made sense from a cost perspective, says the maintenance manager of the Ski Association Matti Haavisto.
Also the team leader of Team Electrofit Simo-Viljami Ojanen emphasizes that the cooperation serves the whole of Finnish cross-country skiing.
– We want the whole of Finnish cross-country skiing to succeed. To achieve this, we need to cooperate on different fronts and find new ways and models of doing things. We see that confrontation does not support anyone’s success.
In Olos, the ski maintenance of both the national team and Team Electrofit works in the national team’s maintenance truck. The national team is camping in Olos from 7 November to 18 November. and Team Electrofit 3.–13.11.
Correction at 10:38: Removed Hilla Niemelä’s name, because she does not belong to Team Electrofit.