The golden hero of the Finnish team, Wilma Murto, got the golden chair at the hotel. The celebration had most obviously roused the neighborhood.
MUNICH. Wednesday night had already turned to Thursday, when the members of the Finnish team gathered in the lobby of the hotel serving as competition accommodation.
A group of a good twenty people was there to receive the winner of the European pole vault championship Wilma Murtoa, who had stayed at the stadium to take a doping test after the sensational final. The test is a normal procedure when an athlete wins a prestigious competition medal.
When the 24-year-old champion finally arrived at the hotel, the reception committee with Finnish flags rewarded him with thunderous applause. After that, Murto was lifted into the gold chair, which unexpectedly started to carry the gold medalist away from the hotel. Most of the party went along.
The moukari men carried the spoils Tuomas Seppänen and Aaron Kangaswho escorted Murro and his coach Jarno Koivunen to take a dip in the fountain located a couple of hundred meters from the hotel.
The knowledge of the Finnish track and field athlete’s first medal in the outdoor track competition in more than six years had apparently not reached the locals who lived near the hotel, or at least there was no understanding of the one-minute intoxication caused by it in the front yard of the hotel.
– I have to ask you to come in, because the noise you caused has been reported to the police, the hotel receptionist went to inform the people who didn’t go to follow the procession that followed Murro’s golden chair into the pouring rain.
– This is a little longer round than what Tero (Pitkämäki) and Hannu (Fabric) did in Osaka, the manager who was left waiting for Murto at the hotel Tero Heiska recalled the empty stadium after the 2007 javelin World Cup final, where his protégé Pitkämäki and coach Kangas did an extra lap of honor.
When the party returned to the hotel, Murro was given a short speech, after which the majority of the party went to their rooms. Maybe the hotel staff had a hand in the game, but the police never came.