Iltalehti gathers three most interesting points every day in the World Cup. Here are Saturday’s points.
He is Finland’s best athlete in 50 years
Santtu Silvennoinen, Tokyo
The hardest part in top-level sports is not accessing the absolute tip, but staying there.
Tero Pitkämäki True to the top. If, and in this case, when the number of consecutive scores in the athletics value races is used as a measure, the Ostrobothnian is the best athlete in Finland over the last five decades. The spear boar was among the top eight in the values races seven times in a row between 2004 and 10.
Also Antti Ruuskanen It was seven times in a row in the top eight bundles in 2012-18, but the Pielavesi Keihässässä medal pot was a bit darker than the world champion in Pitkämäki.
Sledgehammer Silja Kosonen is third on the list. The success tube began in 2022 at the Eugene World Cup, and Tokyo had a sixth top 8 investment.
In the 1980s and 2020s five times in a row in the top eight in the value races, the spear thrower Seppo Räty, Tiina Lillak and Aki Parviainen.
Today, stretching a success tube is easier than in the last millennium. The World Cup has only been held since 1983 and since 1993 at the current pace every two years. The European Championships were held every four years, until every other year became a pace from Amsterdam’s 2016.
Tero Pitkämäki was a tough factor for years. Mika Kanerva
Divided Belgium
Lassi Kuisma, Tokyo
Saga Vanninen a rival, a three -time Olympic champion in seven matches Nafi thiam31, left the game on the second day of the match on Saturday.
After that, the Belgian media began to happen. Chairman of the Belgian Association Jessica Mayon revealed that there was a real war from ThiMa inside the union.
“There are people who didn’t want him in these races,” Mayon said.
Mayon said that Thiam was opposed in the northern part of the country. Belgium is strongly divided into the North Dutch -speaking region and the southern French -speaking region.
Before the Tokyo World Championships, Thiam was left out of the Belgian camp because he did not sign the rules of the union. The union and the athlete were reportedly not agreed on the rights of imagery. Thiam and union sponsors are competitors.
According to Thiam, he was denied access to a training camp. According to the Belgian Association, Thiam lied.
Thiam coach Michael van der Plaetsen Said that the series of events had made him a shame that he was a Belgian.
Nafi Thiam did not finish. Jenni Gästgivar
Big carcasses
Anni Arkko
On Saturday, the men’s tenth match came with several big carcasses, or famous athletes who left the race.
In 2021 in Tokyo, Olympic gold and two years ago in Budapest celebrated World Championship silver Damian warner withdrew from the match at the last minute. The Canadian was already warming up at the stadium but did not dare to compete with the sore Achilles tendon.
In high jumping World Champion and EM bronze medalist Simon Ehammer as well as last summer’s Olympianelonen Sven Roosen were completely without results. They no longer started at the 400 meters. Also the dominant world champion Pierce Lepage interrupted after a high jump.
In the hall season of the seven World Championships and European Championships in Germany Till stepforth In turn, left the play after the ball work. So many hard are out of the crowd.
After the first day, “Superman species” is leading the US Kyle Garland.
Simon Ehammer left the match. EPA/AOP