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at 13:00 skiing, 50 km (p), joint start, men
What are we talking about?
Finnish female skiers criticized their skis after the 30 km race. Lubrication Manager Mika Venäläinen according to the maintenance failed, but could not say what was wrong with the skis. According to Urheilu’s experts, the weakness of Finnish women’s skis could not be seen or evaluated with the naked eye. They thought it was interesting that Finns complained so strongly about their skis.
– When I was talking (to the fifth runner-up) Rosie Brennan’s with after the race, he stated that he definitely had the worst skis of the top group, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen said.
– I gather (Neck) skis could be slightly worse than others, but not strikingly bad. In the medal fight, the skis must of course be the best or close to it.
Saarinen reminded that if the skis don’t slip downhill, they won’t slip uphill either. At that time, the load doubles and it has a psychological effect in addition to the physical effect.
Kalle Lassilan according to, the proportions easily increase in the media, also in this kind of maintenance criticism. He believes that the skis of the Finns had some unifying, common factor, not only related to the equipment of individual athletes.
– For the men’s 50 kilometers on Sunday, this creates its own challenge, because the conditions will probably be of the same type. Then the time window for testing the skis is really small, Lassila stated.
– Maintenance has to do a lot of thinking and find new things to test. One can only hope that they will find a competitive advantage.
Who surprised?
Saturday’s surprises were found in the Swedish team. Ebba Andersson was one of the early favorites of the race, but still his strong performance managed to surprise Kalle Lassila. Andersson crossed the finish line no less than 53 seconds earlier than Norway Anne Kjersti Kalvå.
– First of all, the fact that Ebba was so overwhelming, absolutely crushing was surprising, but also the fact that she ran away so early surprised me, Lassila said.
– That reminded me very strongly Therese Johaug.
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen had circled again Linn Svahnin name in advance, but he still didn’t believe that Svahn, better known as a sprinter, would finish fourth.
– It was surprising that he actually managed to be part of it until the end, Saarinen said and noted that the Swede got a lot of help from his skis.
– Svahn had the best ski of the competition. It was downright attention-grabbing.
Who flopped?
Finland’s combined team was left without a decent result at the World Championships in Planica. Ilkka Herolan ninth place and fifth place in the team competition were the best places. Sports expert Petter Kukkonen in my opinion, everyone expected more, after all, Herola had achieved silver from the previous World Championships.
– The training has been renewed and things have been done a bit from a different angle. In the big picture, it has been thought that now that direction would change. Then it happened pretty much the same way, that the balance is the same as it has been in recent years. Of course, in that sense it is disappointing, Kukkonen said.
Finland’s former head coach Kukkonen believes that Finland’s coaching management is thinking carefully about whether they have dared to change things enough or whether they should try to fluff the coaching more boldly.
In Kukkonen’s opinion, the line with which he once coached has now been seen and it led to certain kinds of results. Now the results and training should be analyzed carefully and dare to innovate more.
– What is, for example Mika Kojonkoski role and how to renew the entire system. World championships are always also competitions between systems, Kukkonen said.
According to Kukkonen, the reason why Austria, Norway and Germany are doing well is because the junior mill, club activities and athlete paths in these countries have worked effectively for years.
– In Finland, it is nowhere near that level. We are able to produce individual herolos, necked ones and others, but not mass.
What next?
The World Cup in Planica ends with the men’s royal journey, a 50-kilometer traditional cross-country start race. In the race, Finland has one favorite above all others: the Olympic champion Iivo Niskanen.
Niskanen’s worst competitors come from Norway, and Norway gets five men in the race: Johannes Hösflot Kläbo, Paul Golberg, Sjur Röthe, Didrik Tönseth as well as the reigning world champion Emil Iversen.
According to Kalle Lassila, Iivo Niskanen must be very careful with the Norwegians and carefully consider when to strike.
– He won’t win the competition just by following. At some point, Iivo has to be hit really hard, because he is not a man of the end, Lassila said.
– Since there are so many Norwegians, Iivo also has to follow what they do with each other.
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen thinks that Iivo Niskanen should keep a steady fast pace from the beginning.
– Let’s name that long ascent as Iivo’s ascent, then he should be able to “beat” others in it, Saarinen said.
– Because if he gets to the end of the straight Kläbon or (Federico) Pellegrino’s with, so it is known how it goes. Iivo’s only chance is to keep a fast pace.