Snowboarding Rene Rinnekangas’ smile froze for a moment – the young star disappeared to meditate like Juha Mieto was

Rene Rinnekangas was 13th in the slopesty qualifier and the last athlete to qualify for the final.

Zhangjiakoun the slopestyle arena was already almost empty and the sun began to set aside when Rene Rinnekangas stepped in for an interview with the Finnish journalists who were waiting for him.

Rinnekangas, one of the medal candidates, was the last athlete to qualify for the slopesty Olympic final after finishing 13th in the qualifiers.

Rinnekangas scored 60.10 on his second fall, even though he crashed his last jump badly. The first bills score was 67.10. The final place was only 0.35 points away.

Another after the fall, Rinnekangas jumped over the fence in the interview area and disappeared for a long time to consider the situation as Seppo Räty or Juha MIeto as a consensus.

However, he returned to the interview area after talking to the coach and making a couple of landings.

At that time, the otherwise empty stadium now had a group of Chinese journalists who had gathered to qualify. Su Yimingin about.

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“I spent a little bit of my own time taking and resetting the situation,” Rinnekangas said.

The analysis of the fall of the second bill was clear.

“There was a little too little momentum and it got to that,” Rinnekangas summed up.

The trademark of the 22-year-old artist has been a wide smile, but now there was no trace of it. An athlete who calmly unleashed the farm was calmly dismantled.

“It was a big disappointment, as the counting felt damn good in training. And I think I was really done. ”

Adding to the disappointment was the fact that Rinnekangas had successfully done a similar trick three times in the morning.

“Counting in the reins felt so damn good.”

But in the second race performance, the pace was just a little too little. He admitted it was a hard place when it went to waste.

Head coach of snowboarders Antti Koskinen said the second fall of Rinnekangas was close to peak performance.

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“There was very little misjudgment of the pace. The jump was a bit short, and the trick is no longer standing down. There was a reserve, otherwise the points of the jump would have started brightly. ”

“It’s a huge annoyance that a small error estimate hit just that point. But counting the slope is an exact hassle. ”

When the disappointment had been dealt with, the look on the slope was already at the Big Air competition in Beijing last week of the Olympics. There, too, he is a medal candidate.

“We are going hard. The work continues and no vest has been thrown in the trash. ”

At least the qualifying race served as a good educational event.

“Both success and failure grow as a person and as an athlete. And in between, you will notice that top sports are tough and eat a man. ”

Finland another counter Kalle Järvilehto also qualified for the slopestyle final after finishing 28th

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It didn’t bother Järvileht much in the end, as he was happy to fall after the injuries without pain.

“It’s nice to count when nothing happens. Then leave Big Air! ”, Järvilehto said.

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