According to Petter Kukkonen, a combined expert in Sports, Finland will not go on a medal in the men’s team competition on Thursday.
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Trondheim has had a miserable weather in recent days. There has been enough rain and the temperature has been on the plus side. On Thursday morning, Trondheim has had very strong winds, up to about 35 meters per second.
For reasons caused by the weather, the start -up schedules of the competitions have had to be postponed.
High meteorologist Aleksi Lohtander However, the winds will calm down in Trondheim by afternoon.
-After half a day, the gusts of wind are about 20 meters per second and in the early evening the wind is only about 5-6 meters per second. Spatial small rainfall areas move around, so it may be that a little water can be sprinkled.
On Thursday, the World Championship program features a combined men’s team competition, a men’s message in cross-country skiing and a men’s team race in ski jumping and a women’s qualifying.
The day begins with the men’s combined team competition in Suurmäki at 1:30 pm. Sports Expert Petter Kukkonen According to, local people have even been warned of dangerously strong winds.
– This kind of rumor circulates that at least during the morning people have been advised to stay indoors, says Kukkonen.
According to Kukkonen, the storm was already promised in Trondheim last weekend, but the wind direction was still so good and there was no danger to jump for the wind.
– The weather conditions may surprise you, but it will only become clear when you go to the hill to see what the reality looks like there.
“Finland will not go to medals”
Former coach of the combined national team hopes that the Finnish team will improve from last weekend’s Normal Hill competition. For today’s team competition, Finland will leave with the team Otto Niittykoski, Wille the bear, Eero Hirvonen and Ilkka Herola.
– When we go to a team competition, it is quite clear that the show of three big countries will be. Norway, Germany and Austria are those who fight for the medal. Finland has the opportunity to fight the positions down from it.
– Realism is that Finland is not coming to that medal competition, Kukkonen adds.
According to Kukkonen, however, Finland may have a “surprise” when jumping in the wind when the luck hit.
– The differences between a good and bad jumper can be really big when jumping in the wind.
The 4 x 5 kilometer ski section of the team competition is scheduled to start at 5 pm. However, the pros has made the tracks very soft.
– If the tracks are soft, the salt will be introduced enough to keep the tracks hard. This allows you to take high quality ski competitions, ”says Kukkonen.
Kukkonen does not see that the ski section will see very big differences. So the team competition is mostly solved already on the hill.