Iida Vainio and narrator Tapio Suominen clashed on social media.
Iida Vainio, 19, who met the Lions who won the Olympic gold in February in a golden dress at the airport and thus became public, got into a verbal spat on Twitter on Tuesday evening, the sports commentator legend Tapio Suominen with.
The tirade started when Suominen commented on Vainio’s update from Kotka, where he had been watching the Korisliiga match between KTP-Basket and Uudenkaupunki Korihaiden.
Vainio, who also worked in sports journalism this year, published a picture of a KTP-Basket player Brandon Tabb is lying on the parquet and there are nursing staff around him.
– Terrible… Ktp basketball player Brandon Tabb (who invited me to the game) was violently pushed into the corner almost unconscious, just lying there. Waited for first aid for 10 minutes, Vainio wrote in his tweet.
Suominen commented on Vainio’s update.
– Ida. You recently said that you want to be taken seriously as a journalist. It might be a good time to start. The editor does not underline the invitation. Even less comment if invited. In addition, your interpretation of the situation is wrong, even embarrassing. The contacts belong in the basket, that sheer accident… Suominen wrote.
Vainio was dismayed by Suominen’s reply tweet and hit back at the commentator with blunt words.
– Who are you? Vainio started his tweet.
Vainio continued by calling Suominen a former journalist and brought out Suominen’s criminal convictions in recent years.
– What is my morality at the age of 58 to push down a 19-year-old young woman just training, huh? Vainio wrote and called Finland bitter.
“What the hell date?”
Suominen continued the conversation with Vainio for two tweets.
– As I said, now would be a good time to start. Your attached post does not necessarily give the impression of being taken seriously. In addition, checking the facts is always worthwhile: this year ~ 50 reports for Ruutu-sport. Sentences settled, of course. I don’t press, I gently guided…
– If you are invited, you don’t make a fuss, and you don’t comment. Dating and dating don’t really play together. Just basic things to start with, Suominen wrote.
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The barrage of words continued.
– What the hell dates? You can have friends even nowadays! Vainio answered.
Later, Vainio still wondered about Suominen’s writing to another Twitter user.
– A great example of how to run a young person down and still publicly on social media even though he could have come in a private message to give the right feedback, which I would have appreciated, Vainio tweeted.
– I don’t think I was referring to your age Ida, even less your gender. Also, we both comment publicly. I would like to give one more piece of public advice, regarding publicity. In Finland, (sports) journalists receive harsh, sometimes low-style feedback. Ignore them, Suominen replied.
A deal was made
Slowly, the conversation between Vainio and Suominen began to move towards a more harmonious tone. Still, Vainio stressed that he did not go to the basketball game as a date.
– Okay, thanks for the tips, living legend. But I guess in my spare time I can go watch a match at a friend’s request without it being a fucking DATE, hello now? and I didn’t go to the game in the role of a journalist, I just went in my free time, Vainio tweeted.
Suominen admitted to Vainio that he had misinterpreted Vainio’s tweets.
– Sorry! Hmm, I myself try to distinguish between dune and free time, and I almost always don’t succeed. ? That, maybe with the free time you deserve, you should completely forget about the role of a journalist. I don’t always succeed in that either. Good luck…
During this year, Iida Vainio has conducted interviews with athletes on the Twitch streaming service in Aleksi Valavuori’s Valavuori LIVE program. Pete Anikari
In the end, the two reconciled through apologies.
– Thank you. My big apologies for interfering with your private life, it was low from me in my feelings. It would have been nice to hear these things and feedback, preferably face-to-face and not through social media, where it is easy to get the wrong picture of everything. I appreciate your expertise! Vainio wrote.
In the end, Suominen also admitted his own mistakes in the heated discussion.
– Let’s both look in the mirror and learn a lesson! These things hurt and you’re right. Better face to face than on Facebook. The all-knowing Sports Uncle mode came to the surface.
Suominen worked at Yle as a sports reporter and commentator from 1988 to 2018. The employment relationship ended in dismissal as a result of inappropriate behavior and abuse of Yleisradio’s security guard.
After his Yle career, Suominen has commented on basketball and football, among other things.