Skiing The creditor revealed why Iivo Niskanen interrupted: “Not all the stars were right today”

Iivo Niskasen World Cup statistics show only a few random interruptions during his peak career, and most of the time it has been about health issues.

On Saturday, Niskanen suspended the 15-kilometer race in Lillehammer, Norway, before the halfway point. The first Intermediate reports that Niskanen’s race had started sluggishly, and at 6.1 miles he was already 23 seconds off the top. He no longer appeared at the next break point.

“It wasn’t a good day,” Niskanen said in response to HS’s question about why the race was interrupted.

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Later during the afternoon it became clear that this was a ski problem.

Finland’s current lubrication manager and Niskanen’s credit manager in recent years Mika Venäläinen said Niskanen was not happy with his skis.

“Iivo said the skis were not competitive. The athlete chooses the best skis to this day, and we then try to tune it with lubrication and a hand pattern. They just didn’t fall for Iivo today, ”the Russian told HS.

The Russian said he had still tested skis with Niskanen after the break.

“I know we probably could have done better on the ski side today, but not all the stars were in place today.”

The Russian stated that every day there is both good and bad feedback from athletes.

“It can be said that in the free race this happens even more in relative terms. Even today, there was both good and bad feedback. A very good success is the sum of quite a few coincidences and practically a loss, ”the Russian said.

Russian recalled that in addition to the choice of skis, sanding and hand-patterning the sole is more important than lubrication.

“Nothing gets everyone’s skis above medium. The variables are so large, and there is talk of marginal differences. The differences in the tests are really small. Needless to say, it was Iivo’s fault, we are all involved, ”said the Russian.