Skiing | Perttu Hyvärinen uploads a harsh assessment of Iivo Niskanen’s condition: “It’s probably not a big surprise to anyone”

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Puijon The ski club Perttu Hyvärinen has prepared for the new skiing winter more courageously than before, when the season without a prestigious competition allows quantitatively harder training.

Hyvärinen has been looking for strength and speed so far mainly on the rollers, as he only properly moved to the snow this week during his camp in Vuokatti.

“Monday was actually the first ski run for this year. One slightly stronger power, but nothing amazing otherwise. We got used to it a bit, and next week we will start regular training on snow,” he said.

The 32-year-old skier is part of the A national team this season as well. Hyvärinen’s teammate and the brightest star in Finnish skiing Iivo Niskanen instead, he was left out of the national team in the spring.

Hyvärinen said on Saturday in Vuokatti that he does not know Niskanen’s condition before the new season.

“I doubt that he is in good shape. Since Iivo hasn’t been in the national team now, we’ve had a really bad time at camp. One has almost always been at camp and the other at home,” he said.

“A few harder runs were done in the spring, and every once in a while you bump into it on the roller rink and on your basic jogs, but you haven’t been able to do harder workouts with a group.”

Nice one said that he was waiting with interest to see what kind of race pace the man with four prestigious championship golds and nine prestigious championship medals would have.

“It’s probably not a big surprise to anyone that that man has enough fitness with traditional methods.”

“I’m used to the fact that club championship silver has come, whether the competitions are at the Olympics, the World Championships or on the slopes of Puijo. At some point, we will try to turn the club championship over to me as well,” he added.

Hyvärinen participated as the only male skier of the A national team in the opening race of the Finnish Cup in Vuokatti. The freestyle sprint ended in the heats after the first ski.

“The purpose was to get in the chest more moves, but there was a bit of bad luck in that round,” Hyvärinen said, referring to his handsome but time-consuming spin in the last corner of the sprint track.

“I should have been in a better position before that situation. At this age, people are no longer the most agile, but when you fall, you have to fall in style.”

The fall was symbolic in this case, as Hyvärinen remained upright during the spectacular spin. Imatra’s athletes skied to victory in the sprint Olli Ahonen.

In Vuokatti Hyvärinen, who is still skiing in Sunday’s relay, continues his journey from Kainuu towards the north. Next weekend, he will ski ten freestyle skis in Olos.

“This is such a good low-threshold season opener. We can start fast-paced races and it kind of makes the skiing easier. Of course, it’s a shame that there were only two draws.”

“There are good young people here knights, so I’m quite satisfied with that. I’m starting to be a bit more experienced guard in this group, but I can still bully the youngsters a bit”, added Hyvärinen.