Ikola hopes the biathlon team will bang their heads together to ensure future success.
Biathlon four-time world champion Heikki Ikola does not trust the success of the Finns in the biathlon world cup, which starts this weekend.
The season starts in Östersund, Sweden, where we will be competing next weekend in addition to the weekend, and Kaisa Mäkäräinen after stopping the flashes of light have been dim.
“I don’t think any Finns will survive in the top ten in the World Cup now or later in the season,” Ikola told RST unrealistically realistically.
The Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing in February, and according to Ikola, no big headlines about biathlon are expected there either.
“Finland does not take a single medal from biathlon at the Olympics,” says Ikola, who has won three Olympic silver medals in her career.
Biathlon evolution has been rapid as the pace of international competition intensifies. At shooting ranges, the athlete must be fast in addition to accurate.
The basic idea of the sport is still the same as in Ikolank’s successful years in the 1970s: you have to shoot accurately and ski hard. The two components of the species must be balanced and the instruments competitive.
Ikola does not want to look too far in the rearview mirror, but still remembers the time when the Finnish Defense Forces and the Border Guard offered a safe job for the tops of biathlon.
“The work in the army was miraculously unpaid, but the salary came regularly, and there was complete peace in playing sports,” Ikola recalls.
Ikola hopes that the Finnish biathlete will gather for a seminar where things will be cut across and stacked to give the sport a brighter future.
Ikola raises the issue Timo Mikkilän In a recent biography written by Ikola (Finnish Sports Museum Foundation).
“The seminar should bring together past and present biathlon coaches, union influencers and former winners. The challenges and future of the sport should be considered together, with all our might, ”Ikola says
Ikola, 74, who closely follows biathlon, still moves a lot. Last winter, he accumulated 2,000 kilometers of skis, and on roller skates he progressed a thousand miles during the summer and fall.
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