The super-promises of skiing in a fierce flight – one star in the moonlight

Free Ten Championship bronze Remi Lindholm24, fourth Arsi Ruuskanen22 and Fifth Niko Anttola19.

The young men who made a big profit in the Arctic Circle on Friday are the biggest hopes for the future of Finnish skiing.

– If you succeed in the youth competitions, you also have to ski well at this level. Hopefully the boys will continue to see the upward trend, he commented Iivo NiskanenFriday ‘s winner.

Lindholm is one of the young gems who should grab the tough results of the international competition next season.

– Free 15 kilometers in the World Championships and a place in the Finnish signal team in the third leg next season, professional skier Lindholm announces his goal.

With that snow, he rose to 14th place in the World Cup at his best in the World Cup, and when all the best were involved, the best finish was 21st.

– When you go to international competitions to ski, it improves a lot of fitness and develops endurance characteristics. It would not necessarily develop when touring the Taivalkoski sports fields in Finland.

Beat the gold

Ruuskanen came off the bush and captured the under-23 World Cup gold at the traditional fifteen. The result surprised the athlete from Siilinjärvi, as the goal was the top-15 before the start of the season and the top-6 before the competition in Lygna, Norway.

– Everything went well. A perfect ski, a perfect day and a tactical success, says Ruuskanen from Kuusamo’s Erä-Veikko.

He was only 2.8 seconds behind the Finnish Championship bronze on Friday. They were involved Ristomatti Hakola and Perttu from Hyvär without counting all the top names in Finland.

– Tough race, but it went well.

Ruuska is described as a very talented endurance athlete with a strong oxygen uptake capacity.

– The goal is adult competitions, especially the Olympics, and to succeed there. Both ways of skiing taste good to me. Pertsa is better by a small margin.

Ruuskanen will get a place in the Finnish national team for next season, but he would also be ready for the A national team.

– It would be great if you could get there.

The skier is studying sports technology at Kajaani University of Applied Sciences.

A parable to Iivo

Anttola, a very tough type of endurance athlete, kicked off the traditional ten of the World Championships at the World Championships as a “minor” this season and won gold at the Vuokatti Youth Olympic Festival from the traditional and free from normal trips.

– It was great to see that it is at the top of the world in its age group at its own level, Anttola says.

The Tornan bowed to Niskanen for 46 seconds on Friday. Of course, the champion was able to pass during the trip, and by the way, he is no longer in the sharpest blow. But still: the performance of a 19-year-old high school student in Ounasvaara was ironic. No wonder he is compared to Niskane.

– I started to follow the tactics I had created: a long workpiece at first with a little surface gas and then a steadily deadly pace, Anttola roti.

– It doesn’t help that to think of being compared to Iivo. The media’s way is to make parables that have no meaning to anything, he continued.

Who will be the most athlete in Tornio in ten years: you or Jesse Puljujärvi?

– It seems to be left. It is difficult to compare species.

Big worries

Last season, the consciousness of the skiing people swelled Alexander Ståhlbergwho kicked off three medals at the World Championships in Youth.

This season has been difficult for a skier performing civilian service in his hometown at Vöyri High School. He fell ill at the World Championships for young people in Norway.

– I don’t know what happened. Already the beginning of the season went badly and the rest of the season even worse. Before the corona, the heart rate did not rise properly. Now it rises easily and can’t handle any. You get lactic acid right away, and you don’t get anything out of the body. I am very disappointed, he describes.

Already in the autumn, Ståhlberg could say that this season is not a step forward.

– I just wanted to compete and watch, but I wouldn’t have thought it would go so badly, he commented.

– Well, even better for me when the season has been so bad. I get to think about problems, solve them and evolve. There is hunger.

On Friday he was in his fifties. The difference to the winner was 2.26.4.

– Shit. I don’t recognize my body.