-Currently, the influenza A epidemic is going on in Finland and Europe. Korona is still on the move, such as sadly fraudulent mycoplasma. Yes, athletes and backgrounds can be accurate to get to the World Cup, the Olympic Committee Chief Medical Officer, and in several Value Races the Finnish Ski Team doctor Maarit Valtonen described a week ago to .
How about it? Finland’s largest World Championship medal Iivo Niskanen mixed Perttu Hyvärinen have said they have been suffering from influenza.
The medal battle for World Championships is also a struggle to stay healthy. Norwegian superstars Johannes Hösflot Kläbo and Therese Johaug They have said in the Norwegian media early in the year that they did not intend to see much of their spouses in the months before the World Cup. Johaug told NRKthat the same approach applies to her daughter under the age of two.
“This will surely be the worst of my life,” Kläbo said after Tour de Skin For VG early in the year.
According to Maarit Valtonen, such isolation is personal solutions.
According to Valtonen, Finnish skiers have been pretty much in their own way before the World Cup. They have not applied for large crowds and have used face masks if they have to go shopping, for example. The most important thing has been that they would not face the patients.
In addition to traveling, according to Valtonen, the infections coming from home have been the highest risk before the World Cup.
– In your own home, infections are the easiest when you live closely to everyday life. In these situations, you must be aware. The related party must have been committed and ready to leave the home elsewhere if there are symptoms, Valtonen describes.
A congested World Cup Hotel as a risk
In the Trondheim World Cup, the biggest risks are indoors. In the previous Planica World Championships, Finland stayed at its own hotel. Now, according to Valtonen, Finnish skiers are staying at a very congested hotel, where most of the other teams are.
– When you go to the canteen to get food, you should use the mask. We strive to make the team’s own dining area so that it would have privacy and health safety, Valtonen described a week ago.
The Finnish World Cup and ski jumping and maintenance are at another hotel. Dagbladet by Norway has booked two floors with its own dining rooms and kitchens with Finnish skiers with Finnish skiers.
One of the first Finnish skiers to come to Trondheim Jasmmi Joensuu He reminded early in the week that often at the World Cup, teams stay in the same hotels.
He has not stressed illness, but has taken care of the basic hygenia.
– It’s just bad luck if you get sick. Everyone is so accurate at the moment that too much reaction is useless, Joensuu said.
Iivo Niskanen model example
The Finnish Ski Team doctor at Trondheim World Championships Janne Pesonen Said Wednesday that the World Skiers’ World Championship Hotel is completely comparable to health safety anywhere else.
– We have been lucky enough to have only two other teams in the same dining area. We’re not in that big herd, Pesonen says.
Perttu Hyvärinen told that the influenza came despite the influenza vaccine. According to Sports, this was also the case for Iivo Niskanen. According to Pesonen, there is a variation in the shelters provided by the vaccines and the vaccine is the best guess, but the virus can be transformed.
-Unfortunately, nothing work is 100 %. It would be much easier if that was the case, Pesonen describes.
Iivo Niskanen has had illnesses in recent years and at the beginning of his career. However, the doctor Pesonen recalls Niskanen’s accuracy in health issues.
– I don’t really know if you could make everyday choices better than Iivo to avoid infections. We also know that today it is extremely difficult to harvest. Must travel from one race venue to another. If a bad luck happens, the end result can be this, Pesonen says his direct insider assessment of Finland’s number one star.
Saarinen once in a strange bird
Sports Ski Expert Aino-Kaisa Saarinen He achieved 15 medals in his ski career. In his career, he did not make as radical solutions as Kläbo or Johaug has now made.
Saarinen suspects that the corona time has made all athletes even more cautious than before. He remembers that he was amazed at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 when he actively used rubber gloves for food.
Saarinen realized that there are people in every corner of the world and they all go to the same canteen.
– I was maybe a little weird then. For example, I think Be Einar Björndalen I wondered why I had rubber gloves in my hand, Saarinen says.
Björndalen was the biggest star in biathlon at the time and is now a genre legend.
– I told him that maybe this is a good thing. It seems to me that Ole Einar took the booth and considered it a smart idea.
Since then, the use of rubber gloves has become normal among top athletes.
This has also happened to face masks. Maarit Valtonen said as an example of the Pyoengchang Olympics 2018, which will also be remembered for cases of influenza.
– We are wondering if the team will be used to use face masks on the flight. We found the research evidence a bit unclear and the fact that the mask is not part of our culture. We were thinking that the media will make it terribly halo if Finland goes to the races in the face masks, Valtonen recalls.