Olympic Games Golden Lions Flight Hours Late – Delayed Baggage Loading Threats Olympic Stadium Folk Festival

Beijing

Olympic gold The flight of the Finnish men’s hockey national team from Beijing to Helsinki, which won on Sunday, is more than two hours late.

Finnair’s flight was due to depart at 11.35 local time, but preparations for departure did not begin until just before two o’clock.

The reason for the delay is the failed loading of luggage. The number of goods surprised the Chinese field workers. The tired gold lions already spent hours resting in the terminal and continued on the plane.

According to the race’s editorial staff, those who boarded the flight were instructed to arrive at the airport very early. The lions were said to have been there for six, so there was almost eight hours of waiting in the field and in the stationary plane.

Lions fly from Beijing to Helsinki on Finnair’s Airbus A350 aircraft. Serves as the captain of the aircraft Ari Huuselaalso known as a sailor.

Huusela, 59, took part in the Vendée Global sailing competition from 2020 to 2021, where participants sailed around the world alone. It took Huusela a little less than 117 days to complete the contract.

With lions there were luggage problems almost three weeks ago when he arrived in Beijing. At that time, the cargo chaos was unloaded next to the runway, from where athletes of various sports with their luggage were crammed into buses with insufficient capacity.

Head coach Jukka Jalonen charred at the time, but despite the adversities associated with luggage and corona secretions, the Lions won all their matches in Beijing and the first Olympic gold of Finnish hockey. Finland defeated the athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee 2–1 in the final.

A folk festival is planned for the Lions at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, but the schedule is tight due to the flight delay.

Travel time from Beijing to Helsinki is less than nine hours, so the transition from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport to the Olympic Stadium will be tight.

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Hockey players with the same flight are, among others, ski medalists Kerttu Niskanen and Krista Pärmäkoski.

Finnish sports directors, including the CEO of the Finnish Olympic Committee, are also present Mikko Salonen and the CEO of the Finnish Hockey Association Matti Nurminen.