Tag: athletes
Updating the costs of Finnish track and field athletes’ World Cup trips is absurd – the core of the sport is being forgotten because of a few thousand euros
BUDAPEST. What does it cost? was a quiz program shown in Finland at the turn of the millennium. In it, the participants competed to see who could estimate the prices…
Athletes gather for Ontario 55+ Summer Games
News Local News Posted Aug 11, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read Doris Henhawk, 84, of Six Nations lights the cauldron to officially start the…
Viivi Lehikoinen went abroad and noticed what’s wrong in Finland – gives strong criticism of the position of professional athletes in society
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. High school was over and finally Viivi Lehikoinen was able to put one hundred percent into the hurdles. But there was no development.…
The historic double victory caused the coaches’ Whatsapp group to stir – these are the kind of athletes Finland’s young rowing heroes are
Petra Stenman, working to support the coaches of Jere Haapalainen and Antti Sainio, expected one medal and was confused about two. Roommates Jere Haapalainen and Antti Sainio spent the beginning…
Melbourne 1956 Olympics: politics do not spare athletes
The year 1956, one of the most turbulent of the post-war period, was not lacking in events: the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Budapest…
Finland’s track and field athletes are haunted by a shocking EC competition curse – is there still one rabbit in the javelin magician’s hat?
Three out of four of the Finnish heroes of last summer’s EC-Munich are more or less in the yard. They have a very good peer group in recent history, writes…
36 countries and 128 athletes – now Wilma Murto is finally taking Finland’s World Cup oddball into history
Finland has never achieved a World Cup medal in jumping sports, where the country’s attraction is actually resisted. This freak is going down in history, writes journalist Pekka Holopainen. Pekka…
these new infrastructures that will delight Congolese athletes
The Congolese State has invested no less than 67 million euros in sports infrastructure for the Games of La Francophonie. A boon for the country’s athletes who have long suffered…
What do the dark revelations of Finnish athletes tell? The experienced race priest was not surprised – he brought up a harsh fact about social media life
More and more athletes openly say that they are exhausted. In recent history, several Finnish athletes from different sports backgrounds have made exits: the triple jumper Senni Salminenswimmers Ida Hulkko…
Olympic Games 2024: the athletes’ village, a logistical challenge for Seine-Saint-Denis
The colossus takes shape. For two months, the 37 cranes that cluttered the horizon have all disappeared, like the concrete plants. And it’s a whole district – or rather a…