Livigno. In February, a rare Finnish bag in China was in China.
23-year-old mound calculator Severi Vieelelä proceeded in Beidahu, a win in Beidah in a win. Vielän defeated the number one on the way to the first species icon Mikael Kingsbury and in the finals of their own idol Ikuma Horishimaeventually the first Finnish win of the World Cup in 18 years.
Vielälä, who is preparing for the World Championships in Switzerland a few weeks later, still remembers getting to the middle podium with a little confused.
– We just started the bill because now is the best in the world. Nothing more than going to go full. It was a long day, but the rest was a frightening smile, Vielälä smiles at Sports in Livigno.
– I couldn’t really wait for the victory to come from that invoice. You can see it in the video that men’s head spins. Afterwards, when you think, it was a pretty incredible moment.
However, Vierelän’s jumps have spun this season with the fact that the victory in the success of Finnish recent years was not a complete surprise. The young Finnish calculator had risen to a level this season with the World Cup win. Already in December, Vielo had reached third in Georgia.
– I wasn’t surprised by the prize ball. You could expect it this season on a certain type of hills, says the head coach of the team team Juha Hautsalo.
– But win is really tough in these patterns. And not much tougher opponents could have faced.
Behind the world’s top of the world was the work of years in Jyväskylä – and perhaps a little surprisingly breaking the tibia.
“Leg across”
Only two years ago, the performance of this season could not be guessed that the development stopped in a serious injury in Deer Valley’s pair.
– It took a little shot before the lower jump. Then I got into that jump. There was a rotation fracture in the tibia. That the tibia crossed, Vieliälä says.
Half a year of rehabilitation was ahead before returning to the slope. In the end, however, rehabilitation turned out to be a kind of turning point in the career of a hog calculator.
– At first, it annoyed me that I couldn’t get on the hill or train properly. I had to do the same stuff day after day to get it in order. It was boring, but at the same time learned to train the right way. To do the same things so it didn’t feel like a porridge anymore, Vielo ponders.
Hautsalo, head coach of the Kumparemaa team, shares his coaching view.
– After the injury, Severi was already doing such a slope for summer training. Last spring and summer, the latest stuff about it. From this it started to become a real sport to him. He began to determine the level and what he had to do, Hautsalo confirms.
– Fortunately, that prize is here now.
The magic of Jyväskylä
However, the foundations of success had been built for over half a decade. Vierelä’s biggest developmental leap occurred when he moved from Kemijärvi to Jyväskylä.
-It was a big, big leap to leave at the age of 17 almost to the other side of Finland. There you got to train in my own, good company. The coaches were beside and the conditions were in order, so who would not develop, Vielo says.
In Jyväskylä, virtually the entire team is home to the team. In Central Finland you can practice both in summer and winter. The hill invoice does not need a large mountain hillside, and in summer you can leap from jumping into the lake.
– All of our physicians are there, the coaches are there, almost all the national team and the challenger athletes are there. It has a good gang, Vielijäs incense.
Juha Hautsalo adds that the support of the Jyväskylä Sports Academy has been worth gold for the national team. Also Olli Penttala He reached third in the World Cup in January.
The success of the past years
The victory did not change the visit as a human being, but it increased the expectations of him at the Olympics. Finland won a total of four humps of Olympic on both sides of the turn of the millennium Janne Lahtela, Mikko Ronkainen and Sami Mustonen by the effort.
Vierelän Voitto immediately started speeches about medal wishes in less than a year in Milano-Cortina.
Janne Lahtela rose in Salt Lake City in 2002 after a severe injury to the Olympic gold. A similar story could also be mediated for Viereä in Milan-Cortina.
Vieelälä himself stinks such paintings.
– Yes, there would be success and metal there, but there is still a way to go, there is a journey there, Vielo says.
Before the Olympics, the World Championships in Switzerland, starting on Wednesday, will be ahead. General training in Livigno in the World Cup finals and Olympic pre -races went from the bench. However, in the World Cup, he finished eighth, compared with the best placement in the 21st.
Vielo himself goes to the World Championships like every race: to do his best. Success comes if it comes. It is important to live in an instant.
– Basically, I want to live day at a time, race at a time and workouts at a time, Vielo paints.
– But I would hope that no bigger injuries would ever come. That you could get intact as long as the body lasts.
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