Finland’s head coach Erik Torneus-Kulstad confirmed to Sports that Jimi Klemettinen and Noora Kaisa Keränen will arrive at the World Cup as deputy athletes on Wednesday.
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The Finnish women’s message team may have experienced a knock at the World Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide, Switzerland Erika Jänkä interrupted the women’s normal journey on Tuesday due to neck cramps.
The women’s 4×6 kilometer message will be skied on Saturday, and Jänkä is part of the Finnish planned team. On Tuesday, Jänkä had to leave the play after the first shooting position.
He says that the neck started to bother on Monday morning. Jänkä was unable to shoot at all in lying on Monday’s preparatory exercises.
– Every effort was made to get through the race, but it wasn’t possible yesterday. Now we are investing in everything to be hit again on Saturday, Jänkä says.
– Suddenly, no miracle healing comes in less than a day. Let’s go day by day and believe that the neck will be repaired by different measures, Jänkä described the current situation.
Jänkä does not want to speculate on how likely it is to participate in a message on Saturday.
Norwegian TV2 described interruption dramatic and said that the Finn needed help to get the skis’s feet. The news has been amused by the hassle.
– I was skiing to the side of the track myself. In biathlon competitions, when we have a gun and cartridges, it is quite normal for officials to immediately check the weapon for safety reasons. Of course, they help the athlete, it was a situation.
– There is no drama associated with interruption. I just said that today I can’t run the race.
The Finnish team is complemented
Head coach of the Finnish national team Erik Tornus-Kulstad He says that the situation is monitored in the next couple of days.
Kulstad confirmed to Sport that Jimi Klemettinen and Noora Kaisa Keränen Arriving at the World Cup on Wednesday as deputy athletes. They can compete if one of the team can’t do it.
-When we are at the World Cup, we want to compete and there must be precautions. It was already planned that two deputy athletes would arrive today. Then we have five athletes for messages. We do not want to find out where we are unable to start competition, says Tornus-Kulstad.
Both women’s and men’s posts participate in teams of four.
The head coach says that the national team’s illness before the World Cup led to athletes who were not part of the original plans.
“It’s great that these guys get the opportunity to sense the atmosphere of the World Cup,” says Tornus-Kulstad.
Before the World Cup for Finland Venla Lehtonen and Otto Invenius They had to skip the race due to prolonged symptoms. The situation in Invenius was still examined during the race, as he was hoped to join the end of the race.
– We hoped that Otto would have healed. He looks healthy, but on Sunday he was not 100 % sure if he could have helped the team, says Tornus-Kulstad.
– He focuses on the following World Cups. After that, we talked to Jim and now give him a chance.
Thus, Klemettinen was not informed of his race venue a couple of days ago.
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Wednesday 19.2.
At 3:50 pm Men’s normal trip 20 km
Thursday 20.2.
At 4:50 pm couple cavity message
Saturday 22.2.
At 13.00 Women’s Message 4 x 6 km
At 4 pm Men’s message 4 x 7.5 km
Sunday 23.2.
At 2:40 pm Women’s joint start 12.5 km
At 5 pm Men’s joint departure 15 km
Updated at 3:45 pm: Failed to comment on Tornus-Kulstad. The arrival of deputy athletes was already clear, but their names had not yet been decided.