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Finland’s ski jumpers reached seventh in the Trondheim World Championships in the men’s team competition Antti Aalto, Niko Kytösaho, Vilho Palosaari and Kasperi Valto.
The result was very much from Finland in the World Championship team competition since the Lahti World Championships 2017. At that time, Aalto, Janne Ahonen, Ville Larinto and Jarkko Määttä reached sixth.
The criteria for selection of the ski jumping team have spoken at the Trondheim World Championships. Kytösaho was the worst in the team race in Finland and will fall from the Suurmäki team that ends the World Cup. To replace Eetu Nousiainen.
– I probably won’t jump. Eetu was the worst in training, but then it was announced that Eetu would jump in a personal race and the worst man is dropped, Kytösaho told after the team race.
Kytösaho did not comment on whether this was a fair way.
– Everyone can have their own mind. We had one workout. Personally, I would have thought that the worst would be the deputy. The wiser decides.
Finnish head coach Igor Medved reported that the team had been aware of clear rules in advance. The worst of the four Finns in Thursday’s race will not be able to join Suurmäki and Nousiainen will be replaced.
Therefore, Kytösaho is not involved in the qualifying for the Suurmäki.
“Eetu’s best personal performance was a couple of weeks ago in the World Cup that they were in the top ten,” Medved referred to the Sapporo World Cup events.
Nousiainen, who returned from a serious injury to the World Cup in February, immediately jumped twice to the World Cup points as the only Finn this weekend.
Nousiainen did not fit in the Finnish team in the Normal Hill in the World Cup, as he was the weakest in two qualifying for two training jumps.
– I expect Eetu to stay relaxed and show what he knows. It’s more than enough, Medved is now describing towards Suurmäki.
So for a long time, the Finnish Mountain Team has a tough internal battle from the race venues.
– I think it’s a good thing. Maybe they hadn’t got used to it before. I only see this as a positive for the future. This is what we try to build to have an internal battle to be better, Medved says.
For example, Slovenian Medved brings up a ski jump to Austria.
He recalls that the top name of the current World Cup season and the probable overall cup winner Daniel Tschofenig Didn’t fit into the Austrian World Cup in a mixed team competition.
Second, for example, Medved raises the Austrian World Cup deputy Manuel fettner.
– When he looks at his career, he jumped Gregor Schlierenzauerin and Thomas Morgenstern against athletes like athletes. He has been difficult. He has fallen into the Continental Cup (ski jumping second tour) and then risen back.
“If we are able to build internal competition in this sense, it’s just positive,” Medved outlines.
Sports Ski Jumping Expert Janne Ahonen experiences the choice of the choice of somehow special. On the other hand, Ahonen sees that if the selection pattern is clear and unambiguous to everyone, it is ok.
In addition, Finnish jumpers are quite smooth at the moment, so it doesn’t really matter who to take the race. In that sense, everyone is good options.
-When going to the World Cup, the number one jumper in Finland will be left out of the first race.
– Then, when we go towards the last race, the Greater Race, a couple of days before that with certainty, you know that you will only jump the worst of the biggest exercises. I don’t know. Pretty confusing, Ahonen pondered the problem of the situation.
Updated at 9:28 p.m. Added by Janne Ahonen’s comments.
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