The skier’s home will move from Rovaniemi to the capital region, and in the future he will spend more and more time with his spouse in Switzerland.
Lived in Rovaniemi his entire professional skiing career Jasmi Joensuu29, will leave the Arctic Circle after this season.
The new home is in the capital region.
– I will be in Geneva a lot in the future. There are great conditions for training and it’s easy to go anywhere from there, says Joensuu.
The skier has been in a relationship with a hockey player for about a year by Markus Granlund32, with. The man has a contract with the Swiss club Geneve-Servette until the end of the 2027–28 season.
– On Monday, I will next go to Geneva.
Rovaniemi has good training conditions for cross-country skiing, and you can get excellent ancillary and support services from the Lapland sports institute.
– Unfortunately, it’s not worth owning an apartment here when I’m traveling so much. There is so much messing around with the apartment.
Suitcase life
On Friday, Jasmi Joensuu won the SM gold in the pairs relay. Jussi Saarinen
During the 2025–26 season, Joensuu has lived a very intense suitcase life. Training and competition trips are part of the job description, and on top of that there has been traveling between the Rovaniemi home, the Geneva home and the home of the parents who live in the capital region.
– This has clearly been the hardest season of my career because of the traveling – not going to Switzerland, but when I haven’t had time to be at home.
Love and relationships bring intellectual capital to many. On the other hand, traveling and waiting at airports can be draining.
Joensuu says that he has not experienced the travel caused by a long-distance relationship as a burden.
– For example, I was in Switzerland for Christmas, so there was less travel. From Central Europe, I have gone directly there from competition trips. It is easier to travel to Switzerland than to Rovaniemi.
Health problems
Ice hockey player Markus Granlund plays for Geneve-Servette. PDO
– It was nice to ski when nothing happened, Joensuu said on Friday in Rovaniemi when he won Eevi-Inkeri Tossavainen with the pair relay Finnish championship.
You wouldn’t immediately associate the comment with Joensuu, because he has been exceptionally healthy throughout his professional career.
– In the last month, I have called the doctor more than in my entire career.
In the World Cup in Falun, after Milano-Cortina, a hamstring problem occurred when the skier fell and hit a course marker.
– The leg injury was quickly brought under control. It was a bit of a problem when it was slow, and the nerf didn’t really work.
Before last weekend’s World Cup in Lake Placid, I had an almost unbearable toothache in my mouth.
– The tooth no longer hurts. The course of antibiotics ended on Wednesday.
In the United States, another problem also struck.
– Last Saturday, I got a cramp on the other side of my neck. The trouble was already in Sunday’s race.
Accredited physiotherapist in Finland Jukka Salo hands up when you pinpointed the crux of the problem this week.
– Then the national team doctor prescribed good painkillers. On Friday, in the SC pairs relay, the neck was fine, it didn’t hurt, but it is stiff.
Joensuu will compete in Rovaniemi on Sunday in the relay. He will not participate in Saturday’s 20 km free joint start.
