Finnish cross-country skiers were severely disappointed on Saturday in the freestyle sprint at the World Cup in Davos. Only Jasmi Joensuu, Katri Lylynperä, Nile Moilanen and Lauri Mountainous advanced to the batch stage, i.e. to the top 30.
‘s interview point in Switzerland was visited by athletes who were more disappointed than the other.
Rauimmin let his performances burn Emil Liekari.
– Such mediocre crap bets. Whether it’s good or bad depends on the little one. We have been bad quite a few times this year. I can’t really say anything now, said Liekari, who finished in 41st place.
Saturday’s race was important in the sense that the sprint will be contested on free skiing at the World Championships in Trondheim on February 27. According to Liekar, he had recovered from Friday’s pair sprint in Davos.
– This was a really important competition. Both of these freestyle sprints were really important. It must be quite a wizard to make it to Trondheim from this, Liekari, who finished in 38th place a week ago in the first free sprint of the World Cup season in Lillehammer, lined up.
After that, the fiery speech, laced with profanity, continued.
– I don’t know. If you asked me now, I would finish these sprints like a wall myself. I would rather ski distance races. Let’s now rather invest in what has at least been better. The Christmas break will be just fine.
Last among the Finns, finishing in 62nd place in the final results, William Mattila didn’t stroke himself much either.
– Bad thoughts. Nothing else miraculous, Mattila said.
– I can’t say at all what got caught. Bad bet.
On the women’s side, the same line was maintained Shut up Olkkonen.
– I don’t know exactly what happened. I didn’t know how to go hard enough or the skied long straight hard enough, Olkkonen wondered.
– I am really disappointed. I’ve been preparing for this for a week. The condition should be quite good, but I don’t know.
Mäki and Kähärä thinking about the top names
John Hill was really enigmatic about his condition in an interview with in Friday’s pair sprint. Now he opened up a little more about his situation. Even on Saturday, the skiing was sticky. The next place remained a dream with the 38th place.
– There shouldn’t be anything. The pace just isn’t enough to get better. If I skied two to three seconds faster, I would be in a happy mood. We are trying to get this turned around, Mäki said.
Does training something in a certain way turn it around or restore it?
– I have to do that analysis in the coming days.
In the Lillehammer free sprint, he became the best Finn Jasmin Kinky experienced a rare elimination.
According to the FIS statistics of the international skiing federation, Kähärä has previously qualified only once in the freestyle skiing World Cup sprints. It came in the first World Cup sprint of Kähärä’s career in Lahti in March 2018. At that time, Kähärä was 62nd.
Now Kähärä was 37th, 1.32 seconds behind the top 30 and the next place.
On Friday, Kähärä competed in Finland’s first team with Jasmi Joensuu. Finland was in the fight for the podium place until the last ascent, where Kähäräkä, according to his own words, hit “acids in a shocking way.”
Kähärä admitted that Friday’s competition weighed.
– I don’t know why yesterday pulled the acid so violently. Clearly, the height made it so that I couldn’t recover to this day, Kähärä said.
Kähärä had started the competition with confidence, even though he was tired. He had wanted to believe in a good performance.
In the end, however, Kähärä ended up comparing previous performances highly. Davos is located at an altitude of over 1,500 meters. According to Kähärä, even in the past, when competing at high altitude, the second day has not been so good.
The athlete, who was disappointed about competing in the Tour de Ski, was not sure yet.
– Before today I had a lot of interest, but we’ll see. Basically, there are good races below. There could be a choice. Let’s see how to do with it. This didn’t go so well, Kähärä said.
He was supposed to continue camping in Central Europe, but now with these games he is thinking about what he will do.
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