Young Vilma Ryytty succeeded perfectly in the cross-country world cup. Eveliina Piippo was severely disappointed.
Last week, Imatra celebrated the Finnish championship in skiing Vilma Ryytty got the best world cup ranking of his career in the free ten of Les Rousses.
23-year-old Ryytty was 16. Get rid of the USA who won the race to Jessie Diggins it was one minute and nine seconds.
Answered in ninth place Kerttu Niskanen was 26 seconds better. Sports expert Ville Nousiainen considered Ryyty’s skiing exemplary for his level.
Ryyty’s early season was difficult, but at Imatra we saw glimpses of better things from him. Prior to Friday, the young woman’s best World Cup finish was 21st from last year’s Tour de Skin ascent of Alpe Cermis.
Nousiainen considered Ryyty’s most recent performance to be tougher, because at that time several top skiers were missing from the Alpe Cermis race. Therese Johaugia and Heidi Weng except all the best were now on the line.
– A good performance considering how difficult it was for him in the early season. He is back in the World Cup circus successfully.
Ryytty took advantage of Germany, who finished second in the competition Victoria Carlin farts.
– He had the courage to grab Victoria Carl’s butt, which allowed him to get into good places. He learned a good lesson from that, Nousiainen rooti.
Among the ten
Diggins was in a class of his own, as Carl was 19.5 seconds behind him. Norwegian Astrid Öyre Slind was third.
At the top of the five were five different nationalities, while Austria Teresa Stadlober was fourth and Sweden’s Ebba Andersson fifth.
Ryytty was satisfied with his success.
– This tastes good. Last weekend went well. There, we thought about what speed is enough. It seems that it will be enough for the World Cup.
Ryyty’s curve turned during the Christmas break.
– I have been able to train in peace, have done good power exercises and dug up my energy. The condition was far from good, but now it has been unearthed.
Ryytty skied the first two laps in Carl’s pees.
– That pace felt relatively relaxed. In the last lap, I couldn’t beat Stadlober’s pees, which could have raised the ranking by two notches.
So the tooth cavity remained.
– I think that there will be better things in the future. If at some point that top 10 place would come, the good-natured Ryytty pointed to the end of the season.
“I don’t train to be bad”
For those who skied on their main trip Eveliina Piipo the race was disappointing. He was only 41st, leaving only two skiers behind him.
– It wasn’t terribly bad, Piippo commented on his performance.
– It was the same crap as it has been all winter.
The tracks in question usually suit Piipo well, but in his current state of mind he is unable to utilize them.
– Not in the mood of the moment. It seems that shorter strokes can be done in a way that feels good. The muscle just can’t take it.
Piipo was asked next, Does he know what causes the undercurrent.
– Hasn’t that become clear to you too? There isn’t. If there was, it would have been resolved and said here.
How is the season going?
– If only you knew. I guess we’ll see on Sunday. We’ll see if he’ll be the last then, when today wasn’t, Piippo, who seemed to have lost his confidence, stated about Sunday’s 20 kilometer race.
The situation is naturally frustrating for the 26-year-old athlete.
– This is something you try to do as a job. I don’t train more than a thousand hours a year to be this bad.