Last year at the World Championships on the airfield Niko Fuel saw finished in seventh place. However, before the start of this season, Kytösaho left the national team.
At the beginning of the season, Kytösaho criticized the Ski Association very much to . According to him, the Ski Federation has been standing for a long time only for coaches and not for athletes.
The Slovenian who became the head coach of the Finnish national team in June Igor Medved would certainly like to see Kytösaho in the national team in the future.
– We would work together. That decision was made before I came. I couldn’t help it. I don’t think it makes sense to change everything overnight. When I came along, he was already making a decision.
– In the future, I don’t want to force anything, but hopefully he will join the national team, Medved commented to Urheilu in Ruka.
Urheilu’s ski jumping specialist Tendon Ahonen according to him, during his active days there was a working package, when everyone had their own personal coaches at the Ski Association’s camps as well. Each of the peaks trained with their own programs, not all with the same.
– Is it really so black and white that everyone works with the same program? I’m not sure about that. However, I don’t think it’s right, Ahonen commented in Urheilustudio.
from the Finnish national team Antti Wave and Casper Valto weren’t willing to take a bigger stance on Kytösaho’s exit. According to Aalto, going into this season, things could have been better, but considering the outlook for spring, the training season went “okay”.
Kytösaho told Ruka that he has received a lot of positive feedback about his exit. According to him, very many people have contacted him.
– Quite a lot of athletes from other sports have been praised for having the courage to say it. Many feel that there is similar activity in other sports federations in Finland, Kytösaho stated.
The Finns grab the first men’s ski jumping World Cup points of the season, when Antti Aalto is the 11th and Niko Kytösaho 13.p.
2) The new dress code is surprising
Internationally, in the ski jumping world cup, the ski suits have once again been the talk of the town. For this season, the suits have been individualized and every piece of fabric has been chipped.
That way you can control the number of ski suits. Now everyone can only wear ten suits during the season. The decision was justified, for example, by cost reasons.
However, Janne Ahonen does not swallow the argument completely.
– Cost savings were probably sought, but the biggest countries still have more resources. They get ready-made suits to be scanned, says Ahonen.
Mattimeikäläinen might also think that the rule change means an end to the rejections of jumpsuits that were talked about a lot in the past. However, Ahonen disagrees.
– This still has nothing to do with the shape and size of the suit, Ahonen refers, for example, to washcloths in jumpsuits.
In this costume business, no one stays on the cart anymore?
– My knowledge of the sport doesn’t seem to be enough anymore, Ahonen, a five-time winner of the Central European hill week, said in Urheilustudio.
The Finnish national team also had problems with the jumpsuits at the beginning of the season, when the person responsible for them was sick.
– At the moment, we have had the most difficulties with the equipment. At the moment, there is still a shortage of men, so that we could react faster and make changes, head coach Medved said.
3) It’s sticky in Finland, wind problems are an unwanted thing for the Ski Association
The start of the season for the Finnish national ski jumping team has been difficult. That was also the wind conditions at the World Cup in Ruka.
The Finns’ best positions came in Sunday’s competition, which was left in one round. Antti Aalto was 11th and Niko Kytösaho 13th. At the same time, Aalto and Kytösaho grabbed the first Finnish World Cup points of the season.
Wind problems can also have financial effects.
When the hill race in Ruka was canceled in 2019, the then executive director Ismo Hämäläinen said that it could result in loss of income of 300,000 euros.
Administrative manager and acting head of the Ski Association. executive director Marlene Power pass admitted the loss of income even now, but said they were smaller than when the entire race was cancelled.
Valtasola did not want to reveal the exact amount of lost income, because according to him, the amounts are confidential.
The Ski Federation has already been in the headlines a lot this year due to financial problems. Due to the financial situation, Valtasola didn’t think even one round of the race was desirable.
– Of course this was a sad thing, but not a disaster, Valtasola commented to Urheilu on Sunday evening.
According to him, the Ski Federation will now have to review its activities, but did not specify it further.
Aalto’s ranking was the best in an individual World Cup race from Suurmäki since the Salpausselkä Games in February 2019, when he was ninth.
– The blocks were better in place than on Saturday. We were also able to jump in more even conditions, Aalto described on Sunday.
Kytösaho has also had a difficult start to the season. Last weekend, illnesses started in Lillehammer, and the Lillehammer games were completely canceled.
In Saturday’s race, he was last. On Sunday, Kytösaho didn’t even qualify, when he took the wrong race number and was late for the equipment control due to a fight.
Kytösaho described to Urheilu in Ruka that the disease continued in Finland as well. Now Sunday was the first day that Kytösaho could even do a little preparatory training.
Still, he hadn’t been able to train normally yet, and he wouldn’t have even dared to before Ruka’s second hill race. However, it was the first World Cup points of the season.
The head coach of the Finnish national team, Igor Medved, recently stated in July that Finnish ski jumpers need to lose weight. Medved praised athletes in Ruka for successful projects.
– I have to praise the athletes that they have lost their weight. They have worked well. Of course, we can still take steps forward for the Olympic season, Medved said, referring to the looming 2026 Cortina-D’Ampezzo Olympics.