Skiing The Beijing Olympic Games experienced the miracle of winter – how is Finland’s message tactics?

Beijing at the olympic ski resort of zhangjiakou in olympics on wednesday.

In Zhangji, it rains an average of only a few millimeters in February, but on Sunday, snow has been trying to lift since morning, as weather forecasts have said.

Light frost has accumulated by five cents by the beginning of the afternoon and more is promised.

This means that maintenance troops are in front of the new when preparing skis for the men’s 4×10 mile post.

Due to the infrequent snowfall in Zhangji, and the fact that the national teams have not been able to test the conditions due to the corona epidemic, the situation is new for all maintenance teams.

The Finnish national team went around the turn of the year to study the conditions twice, but then the ski resort had cold and rainless frost.

The same was during the races except for a light snowfall on Saturday.

Track machines drove the tracks open an hour and a half before the start of the race, but new snow is slowly reaching the track.

The Finnish maintenance team has been an excellent success during the first week of the race. Now that too is ahead of the new.

“I went to try the parties and found that I like it well but nothing seems to slip. Extremely slow weather, at least with the traditional “, Finland ‘s maintenance manager Mika Venäläinen commented on Ylelle.

According to the Russian, the frosty snow falling from the sky is really dry.

Snowfall can also be a poison to Finnish tactics. Finland’s number one skiing in the second leg Iivo Niskasen the task of distinguishing others can be made more difficult because he is likely to have to open the trail as well.

The Finnish team’s well-functioning grinding and lubrication are no longer useful either.

Finland is applying for a medal with the team Ristomatti Hakola, Iivo Niskanen, Perttu Hyvärinen and Joni Mäki. Finland was sixth in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.

Snow surprised the organizers of the Olympics anyway. Although Zhangjiakou has profiled itself as a winter sports resort, at least the plowing equipment familiar from Finland does not seem to be very good, because it rarely rains.

“There are years in the history of measurement when the accumulation is exactly zero cents during the Games. In 2018, there was 22 cents of snow in one day, and that is a record, ”says a member of the Finnish maintenance team. Teemu Lemmettylä told about the snow conditions at the Olympics before the Games.

The streets were cleaned of a thin layer of snow, for example with rotating ridges, such as those used in Finland to plow outdoor ice. There were also some shovel patrols on the move.

The snowstorm also changed the landscape of Zhangjakou as all the bare slopes were covered in snow.