Antti Tuisku announced his desire to be successful in the ski championships in 2025.
Antti Tuisku skied the final climb of Alpe Cermis in the Tour de Ski side event Rampa con i Campion in Val di Fiemme, Italy on January 5, 2020. Jussi Nukari / Magazine photo
Singer Antti Tuisku, 39, who ended his music career in the summer of 2023, announced on February 4 that he is aiming for the top of Finnish skiing.
The man’s goal is to succeed in the World Championship in 2025. We will see him as a coach Reijo Jylhä. Jylhä is Iltalehti’s skiing expert and the former head coach of the Finnish national skiing team.
– There are more than 700 training hours in the plan. Now we’ll see what can be accomplished in a year or so, and whether it’s really possible to turn such a wannabe athlete into an athlete to be taken seriously, Tuisku stated in his press release.
Tuisku announced it on his Instagram account on Sunday. The publication has gathered thousands of likes and hundreds of comments in no time.
The fans are excited about Antti Tuisku’s career as a professional athlete. The comment field has been filled with flame emoticons and hearts.
– It’s great that you can make this thing happen!
– Great job! I’m starting to get interested in following skiing in the future with a whole new enthusiasm, great Antti!
– You can really do anything in life!
– Antti = Consciousness of purpose, passion and guts!
– I was just guessing something like this!
Numerous Antti Tuisku’s music colleagues and celebrity friends have given their support to the artist’s new conquest of territory.
– Cheers, singer Antti Ketonen wish.
– Antti you are SUPER, singer Bess enthuses.
– You are amazing! The best guy I know, Portion Boys band Tiina Forsby continue.
Does the song foreshadow?
Iltalehti already reported a year ago about Tuisku’s plans for elite sports. At that time, however, Antti Tuisku commented on his Instagram account that waiting fans shouldn’t “hold their breath”.
In 2017, during the World Ski Championships in Lahti, Antti Tuisku published something referring to skiing I ski – a hit song. Before his own skiing career, Antti Tuisku has been seen cheering on Finnish skiers on the slopes and he has also been seen skiing with, among others, Krista Pärmäkoski.
Antti Tuisku passionately encouraged Anne Kyllö at the Tour de Ski 2019–20. Jussi Saarinen
In 2019, Antti Tuisku told the background of the song Mä hiihdän in Vain läämää program.
He said that he thought about the song while making the skier legend Mika Myllylän fate. He considered telling the song’s origin story to be a sensitive topic for him.
– I think it’s strange that an athlete in Norway gets caught doping and is rewarded at the highest level of the state. And when something like this happens in Finland, people kill themselves, the singer said.
– Above all, it tells about how people are ready to turn their backs on you, he said.
The lyrics of the song touched Tuisku.
– We had the idea that we wanted to make a song about this topic. I’m starting to cry even now when I think that “if I can get over this one more hill, there will be another hill after that,” he revealed.
– I fell into it and cried. I don’t know if I’m crying for the brutality of life, if I’m crying for my own tiredness, if I’m crying for how hard it is sometimes to manage to row against the current, or if I’m crying for Mika Myllylä’s fate. I must have cried all these, he said.
Olympic champion Myllylä, who died in his own home in Kokkola in the summer of 2011, was among the Finnish skiers who were caught doping at the Lahti World Championships in 2001.
His cause of death has never been made public.
Former head of the Ski Association and a good friend of Myllylä Paavo M. Petäjä told Ilta-Sanom that he has a report on the cause of death, but he cannot and does not want to talk about its details.
– Mika did not die by his own hand and no outside persons were involved in his death. It was an accident, Petäjä has said.