The Finnish athletics crowd struck last fall. In Rome, the European bronze medal Oliver Helander The coach changed first Terro From Pitkämäki To Petteri Piironen.
Helander then moved from Finland to Denmark, where his life partner is studying dentistry at Aarhus University. The athlete had spent long periods in Denmark in 2024.
Piironen said as an original plan that Helander would train once a month at the coach at the Kortane Sports Institute, and the coach would also supervise the training in Aarhus with modern technology:
– Oliver puts the smartphone on the stand to describe in a place where I see a training situation and can comment and discuss. This applies to power, fitness and body care exercises at least three times a week, Piironen told Sports at the end of October 2024.
No smartphone was needed
Piironen, who has previously been a sports coach for the long time as a sports federation, from South Africa on Monday, now said that the smartphone did not have to tune in in Denmark or Finland, who has previously been a sports coach, which has been a sports coach for a long time in South Africa and formerly a sports coach for the sports federation.
Piironen pulls a group of athletes at the familiar campsite, where a three -week camp ending at the end of the month has been training in addition to Helander Ton Corpuscle, Eetu Peltokangas and the Japanese Genki Dean.
Another athlete-coaching pair that started cooperation after last season Neeraj chopra–Jan Zelezny.
– It became clear very quickly that in the fall, Oliver had no spiritual readiness to practice programmed. He really needed oxygen properly to find mental readiness and passion there again.
Piironen was not intentionally, intentionally, as if very occasionally connected to Helander. This, in turn, did not go to Kuortane for a few travels in Finland.
-In practice, Oliver did not start training until this year, and while he was still ill in February for a couple of weeks, it can be said that the basic training season is still heavily underway, even in the early stages.
Helander, 28, who received the first exercise of his camp day, confirmed Piironen’s reviews and opened up his deep motivation problems after the Paris Olympics.
The head needed a detachment
– Paris was such a long -term and big goal that had to culminate in the medal. When it didn’t happen, and the season was really awkward anyway, then in the fall, it made me want to focus on things other than spear. The head simply needed a break. It was quite empty.
Karelian finished ninth in the Olympic Final, whose level It was ferocious. Winner Arshad Nadeem threw 92.72, bronze medal (Anderson Peters) required 88.54 and sixth (Julian Weber) as much as 87.50.
On August 8, the Olympic Final also remained the last competition for Helander, who suffered from back problems in the 2024 season.
Last June, Helander achieved 85.75 European bronze medals in Rome, which was also enough to choose a athlete of the year in Finland.
– That’s where the joy of the season was then. It’s good that the only one hit the value race.
Of course, Helander said in Aarhus the end of the year that he had moved and took care of his body, but he only returned to the “right” training, or “right” training.
“I wasn’t in any rapeseed when I returned,” he laughed.
– Oliver’s peak result is never about physical performance, but about health and technology variables, Piironen confirms.
Unknown felt good
Since Helander is not known to be any kind of publicity, a long stay in Denmark has felt good in another way.
“I’m not a super-celebrity in Finland either, but nobody recognizes me in Denmark, and that fits in,” said an athlete who enjoyed a handball in Aarhus.
Helander was once a handball in Finland’s most talented young players until 2016 moved his bang to a spear throw.
His brother Benjamin Helander Play as a professional in Sweden and is one of the number one guns in the Finnish A-national team. The Danish League, on the other hand, is the elite of the world.
Both Piironen and Helander emphasize that the game has not been played, even though the athlete took a rare long break from the site.
-The World Championships will not be held in Tokyo until mid-September, that is, there is no hurry at all as last spring, Helander recalls.
In Rome, the European Championship medals were cast as early as June 12. The upcoming season Helander plans to open the Doha in the Diamond League on 16 May; He already has a place there.
The Tokyo Direct World Championship limit is 85.50 and the display time opened last August. In the World Championship quota, 36 throws, you can get through the ranking without breaking a straight border. None of the Finnish thrower has so far broken the limit during the screening time.
A long break
Helander and Piironen have an agreement that an athlete is only adhered to when the coach’s eyes are present. When last season ended on August 8, and the camp in South Africa began on March 11, the sport break was very long.
– I have thrown two exercises at the camp. The first was the test exercise, the second was already moderately powerful, Helander, who was throwing home again before going home.
He returns from Potchefstroom to Denmark, from where the journey continues in April-May to camp in Portugal. There, the power will be removed at the dawn of the upcoming race season.