Krista Pärmäkoski’s main international goals for the rest of the season are the World Cups in Lahti and Oslo. Markus Vuorela, who fell in Goms, says that it will be possible to compete in three weeks.
No less than a 12-time medalist in the prestigious competition Krista Pärmäkoski and a three-time Olympic champion Iivo Niskanen are among the big attractions of the weekend championships in Hakunila, Vantaa.
After the World Championships, the most successful athletes of the current A national team retire for an almost month-long international competition break. Iivo Niskanen already told Urheilu a week ago that he is not interested in going to Canada’s Canmore on the 9th-13th. February and in Minneapolis, USA on 17-18 to the World Cup competitions held in February.
Niskanen, whose racing season was interrupted by illness, said that he reached a solution to ensure the best possible success in the Lahti World Cup on the first weekend of March and the Oslo World Cup 50 km (p) on March 10 with a training break.
Pärmäkoski skips North America
According to the information obtained by Urheilu, Pärmäkoski, who was right in the yard at the Goms World Cup in Switzerland last weekend, and who finished 38th in both the sprint and the 20 km (v) mass start, has come to the same decision as Niskanen and will skip the arduous round trip across the Atlantic. Pärmäkoski’s personal trainer Matti Haavisto did not want to comment on the matter on Wednesday.
The main goals of Pärmäkoski, who is 19th overall in the World Cup and 7th in the Tour de Ski overall, are the same as the intermediate start of Niskanen, or Lahti’s 20 kilometers (p) on March 2, and the 50 kilometers (p) of Oslo’s Holmenkollen on March 9.
The continuation of Pärmäkoski’s career is an interesting topic of skiing talk next spring. The athlete stated On the final ascent of the Tour de Ski at Alpe Cermis on January 7, he climbed that hill for the last time, which at the latest started strong speculations about whether his career will continue towards the World Cup in Trondheim and the Olympic Games in Milan. According to coach Haavisto, this is still open for the athlete as well.
Both the Vantaa WC and the North American World Cups are definitely absent Markus Vuorela, who killed himself really badly when he crashed in Goms last weekend. Vuorela tells Urheilu that he received a diagnosis on Wednesday, according to which it would perhaps be possible to compete again in about three weeks.
– At the Suomen Cup in Kuopio (February 24-25), you have to be in competitive shape if you plan to ski in the World Cup in Lahti.
Morphine brought relief
After a hospital stay in Switzerland, Vuorela, who returned to the Finnish team’s accommodation, went for magnetic scans on Wednesday, which revealed what the man was already expecting.
– A muscle tear was found in the area of the left shoulder and extensor. Fortunately, the muscle is not torn from its attachment point, but the shoulder is so sore that it is impossible to ski a race now.
In his fall, Vuorela, who received a violent blow to the elbow and shoulder area, was taken to the hospital by an ambulance helicopter. The border guard’s pain tolerance is steel, but the morphine injection given at the hospital was more than necessary this time.
– It took the pain from one time to another, Vuorela, who also suffered a concussion in the situation, states.
– The order was that I had to be woken up a few times during the night because of the concussion. The head is fine now.
Ski with one pole
Vuorela keeps herself in shape for the near future mainly on the treadmill and exercise bike, but the man had already been on the track since the beginning of the week.
– I skied with one pole.
Vuorela is an experienced rehabilitator. 2021 men at the October glacier camp in Italy’s Val Senales the fibula was broken. Vuorela returned to the Games in December, but did not make the Beijing Olympic team in February 2022.
– It was the most painful experience of my life. This is probably number two.