The disbelieving Ristomatti Hakola got better – The poor man’s Norwegian did tricks

Ristomatti Hakola won. Pasi Liesimaa

– I wouldn’t have believed it, said the incredulous Cross mat Hakola on Sunday after the joint start of the 20 km freestyle skiing of the Ruka Suomen Cup.

Kauniainen’s mözijö bathed the whole group in a tickling final battle.

– Last year I was 23rd in a similar competition. For the last year and a half, I have been pretty bad in the freestyle skiing competitions in the Finnish Cup. Winning is always nice. It doesn’t matter what competition, Hakola commented.

Jämin Jänte’s teammate Markus Vuorelan Hakola, who competed on second skis, was already the last to drop from the top in the previous four-kilometer lap.

– Iivo Niskanen and Arsi Ruuskanen struck. There was a small difference. They must have lifted my back a bit and I got back to the top group. The last lap can always come so that even if I die on the track.

Before the last steep uphill, Moni predicts that the person in the best early winter performance condition of his life Joni Mäki fix the pot in a six-skier massacre.

– The only point where I win with Joni Mäki is the last ascent of Ruka after a long distance. And Jon knows it too.

It is a steep climb leading to Ruka’s ski stadium, where you advance with hoe technology.

– I left Joni in third place, but I didn’t notice the man coming in the white race suit, Hakola summed up.

Jymy surprise

Vuokatti Ski Team Kainuu slipped behind Hakola in a white race suit on the final straight Veeti Pykkö. He finished second and was the biggest surprise of Sunday’s race together with fifth place Kalle Parantainen with.

– It tastes good, that’s all I can say, Pyykkö commented.

He stunned Olos in the cannonball competition a week ago, when he took fifth place in his pocket.

– Based on Olos, I knew that the condition and energy should be good. I tried to repeat the Oloxen week in preparation. It worked.

The 23-year-old athlete is from Joensuu. He moved to Vuokatti in 2018 and settled in a sports high school. Nowadays, the man studying economics at the University of Joensuu, mainly by distance learning, has taken root in Kainuuse.

Last summer, the enthusiastic trainee covered no less than 7,000 kilometers on rollers.

– The main focus has been very strongly on skiing for the past three years. If everything goes well, there will be 950–1,000 training hours for this season.

Laundry to coach Santeri Erola. The same man pilots the hardest professional skier in Finland, measured by the number of training hours Remi Lindholm.

In common with Lindholm is also a free style of skiing that suits your personal taste better.

Handsome Wassberg

The laundry proceeds with stylish Wassberg technology. The idol is a model student of that technique Simen Krüger. After the Norwegian hero, the Finn is called the poor man’s Krüger.

– Remi changed his nickname. I am a young Krüger these days.

Are your goals as high as the Norwegian with five championship wins?

– Yes. I hope I can get to them, Pyykkö answers.

Did you dream of the Italian Olympics next February?

– Maybe I was dreaming, but I don’t think the competition venue is realistic. If only I could stay healthy and get as many World Cup starts as possible this season.

So far, Pyykö has two World Cup starts without any fame. Next weekend there will be more mc events in the Northeast.

With a mourning ribbon

Star of the United Ilkka Herola opened his competition season as a saint in Kuusamo.

– It was uncertain whether there would be a race in Rovaniemi. That’s why it was decided that there will be a skiing race in Ruka, Herola, who was camping in the capital of Lapland, explained her participation in the cross-country Finnish Cup.

The man from Savo was fiftieth in the competition. The gap to Hakola was four minutes.

– I really miss the trip. A brutal way to open the competition season like that. Had to try to be patient.

Based on the training data, Herola is in the shock of his life.

– It’s true about the hill, but I don’t know about skiing. We will find out during the season. I’ve certainly been in better skiing condition, but it doesn’t matter that much in our sport, Herola, who won the World Cup competition last season, described.

A Finn has never succeeded in Suurmäki in Ruka. Next weekend, he will try to shake off his troll when the World Cup starts in Kuusamo.

– It’s a hard effort and credit that Ruka’s hill would be favorable for me this time.

In Sunday’s competition, you finished 18th Emil Liekari he wore a mourning band on his chest. He wanted to honor the memory of his recently deceased grandmother.