None of the fierce junior capabilities of cross -country skiing have become an international success in the general series.
Did everything go? Doesn’t any of the golden generation of the Finnish cross -country skiing go to the top of the general series? Has a couple of talent grooves have already been patted?
The golden generation has been called friends born between 1998 and 2003.
Of these, the brightest pearl has been considered to be born in 2003 Niko Anttola.
Niko Anttola is considered the brightest pearl in Finnish skiing. Jussi Saarinen
Two years ago, Tornion was raised as anchor of the Planica World Cup silver message, but in 2023-25 the profitability curve was not desired.
Anttola is said to be up to Iivo from my neck Harder ability, but Niskanen was already a couple of Olympic winners at the same age and fourth on a personal trip.
– The Sochi Olympic Year 2014 was exceptional. I do not downplay the achievements of Iivo, but Rossignol made a ski that was completely overwhelming. That little one gives a different perspective, says Iltalehti’s ski expert Reijo Jylhä says.
Rossignol’s white -based transparent was magical at the 2014 Olympic Games.
Anttola has been nineteen in the World Cup at its best.
-The World Cup recently became a silver medal. I’m really not a steep Anttola estimate. He has a similar challenge like Niskanen, that is, staying healthy. There have been so many illnesses that they have cut off development. It can be one factor that has left the profit level worse.
The result is a fool
Niilo Moilanen has suffered from problems in the 2024-25 season: in the summer there was a roller skiing accident and after Tour de Skin came pneumonia. Jussi Saarinen
Born in 2001 Niilo MoilanenSprint Youth World Champion, has taken the best results from Finnish abilities: three times in MC-sprints to ten bundles and once to the top six finals.
– Niilo is the next Finnish sprint skier who rises to the top.
Is Moilanen’s domesticated work enough? Does the body sour tolerate in all three rounds of the sprint (semi -finals, semi -finals and finals)?
– The work may not be reflected in investments, but the change in the free sprint is big. He was basically a clean traditional sprint skier. For this season, he has clearly been able to improve free sprint skiing. It has eaten the traditional results.
In the free MC sprint, a man in Northern Ostrobothnia has been at his best fourteenth.
– I strongly believe in Moila, Jylhä says.
During the 2024-25 season, Moilanen has suffered from two major problems. In the summer, he fell on roller skates and in January he hit pneumonia.
A huge problem
Alexander Ståhlberg has had a lot of problems. Pasi Liesimaa
Finland achieved the U20 World Championship silver at the 2021 home race in Vuokatti. In addition to Moilanen and Anttola Alexander Ståhlberg and Eemil Helander.
Shortly thereafter, Helander changed his mid -distance running as the main sport.
Born in 2002, Ståhlberg has suffered from nutritional problems, mental challenges and many other health ranges.
– Nutrition and mind usually go hand in hand. When there are challenges on the nutrition side, it is difficult to come to the international top. For men, the situation is even more challenging than women. When men’s hormone levels, that is, testosterone levels fall normal, the change is much more radical than the women’s hormone side, Jylhä estimates.
The Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnian man has been ranked 44 in the MC in 2021. There are four MC starts during his career. One of them came this season at Ruka when the man was ranked 53 in the traditional ten.
– It is certainly not easy to achieve the goals you have set.
Diesel man
Arsi Ruuskanen is a diesel skier. Jussi Saarinen
In 1999 Arsi Ruuskanen Oxygen uptake and endurance properties would be sufficient for international top battle, but the man is very slow. For example, in Tour de Sk, the man was 86 and 64 in the time of the sprint.
– It is quite crucial if you don’t react to that with training. Even training can improve performance.
It would seem that the temporary start competitions are Ruusanen’s only straw for international success.
– When you get really slow and heavy weather, you can open up a success in the joint start. But the victory will never come if there is no final.
Ruuskanen is a U23 World Championship gold medalist for a traditional 15 kilometer from 2022.
He has been at his best in the World Cup at the eighth Davos 20 kilometer free start competition in 2022.
Trio at the moonlight
Lauri Mannila was born in 1998. The best MC result of her career is from 2021. Pasi Liesimaa
Those born in 1998 have three hard -praised friends: Remi Lindholm, Miro Karppanen and Lauri Mannila.
– Lindholm has already shown that he can be at the top of ten. It is always easier to predict the future for someone who has already been at a certain level, Jylhä says at its best in the World Cup about 10 skiers.
Lindholm’s season 2024-25 has been almost fiasko.
– In Mannila, training should be boys’ results, but the long high -end camp in the autumn did not go as planned with the illness. It may be affected. The situation seems much worse than what is really when the margins are small.
Sprint’s specialist in MC-Sprint has been fifteenth in 2021. The second best result is the 2023 position 17.
New ear?
Eevi-Inkeri Tossavainen’s career slides downhill. Pasi Liesimaa
In 2023 youth sprint World Cup gold won Eevi-Inkeri Tossavainen The career slips on a steep downhill.
– reminds Anita ear -The type of thing. He must make clear changes. In practice, you have to think about whether they take that type of skier forward. I don’t like the game lost because he is a 21-year-old skier who, in his own words, is still motivated to practice.
Shortly after his junior success, Tossavainen reached the World Cup from the Sprint Time to Batch Stage, but since then it has been quiet: four MC sprints and four qualifiers from the batch phase
– If there is no right direction this spring, it will certainly be mentally challenging to make up.