Krista Pärmäkoski told Urheilu that she had fallen after changing skis. It started a cycle that left Pärmäkoski unable to walk on his own two feet after the race.
Roope Visuri,
Laura Arffman
Holmenkollen saw the most Finnish drama in the 50 kilometer race, when Krista Pärmäkoski not the head coach of the Finnish women’s national team Ville Maunuskelan including being able to walk after the race. Pärmäkoski could not be interviewed by the media.
– A cramp bigger than a crystal in one leg. Can’t bear to put weight on the leg. He will be taken by some other means than on foot to a service truck and hotel, Maunuksela told Urheilu.
Maunuksela for Ilta-Sanom specified, that the situation was not life-threatening. Pärmäkoski had gone to change clothes at the maintenance truck.
Pärmäkoski later told Urheilu that he had fallen after changing skis. His tactic was not to start complaining about the cream goals, but to catch up on the bills. However, Pärmäkoski fell behind the top group in the fourth round.
“If I hadn’t fallen, I wouldn’t have caught up, but I wouldn’t have fallen so hard either,” Pärmäkoski said.
– After that, the cramps started and it was a fight to the finish line.
Pärmäkoski was tenth in the race, almost four minutes behind the winner of the race About Frida Karlsson. The Swede was the overwhelming winner, as he beat the runner-up Ebba Andersson by more than a minute.
There was a tough battle between seven athletes for the third place. Germany’s Katharina Hennig and Austria Teresa Stadlober were able to tear a little distance from the others at the end. Hennig stretched to the finish line in third place ahead of Stadlober.