Discovering Rosa Pohjolainen, the "tank" that amazed Levi. "It will also come in speed"

The 17-year-old Finn impressed in her home slalom with super partials, but her coach Nicolas Burtin warns. "Now a lot of the European Cup, it has enormous potential."

Tuesday 24 November 2020 4 minutes reading time

Three races disputed in the World Cup, all in Levi where it made its debut in the maximum circuit a year ago, and then try again this year in the two slaloms of last weekend that made it known to everyone. Rosa Pohjolainen, a 17-year-old Finn who already, of course, the insiders had noticed in the 2020 edition of the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, with gold in the team event and silver in giant won in the Les Diablerets races, he was scary in the double home round, especially in the partial races of the flat initial section of the "Levi Black". A real "tank", certainly to be scorned given that he still makes several mistakes, as in the first heat of race 1 and in the second of the encore, the one that however gave him the first points in the CdM, with the 27th place coming after the sensational 14th time of the opening heat, disputed with bib number 63. It is no coincidence that Christian Hoeflehner, Atomic Race Manager of the company that supports her, defined her as an “extraordinary talent”. The coach of the Finnish women's national team, Nicolas Burtin, talked about the young Pohjolainen in detail at “Ski Chrono”; the former French downhill skier, brother of that Raphael who is leading the Belgian Armand Marchant high in the men's slalom, confesses that the "potential is really enormous, but it must be managed in the best possible way and also for this reason the parallel of Lech will not be disputed ( where only Riika Honkanen will compete for Finland), but we will focus on the European Cup. Yes, Rosa will not only do slalom and giant, but also in speed she can grow a lot. He wants to train and always goes full throttle, even Levi didn't think much between the two heats. And to think that before the appointment at home, he told me he was afraid of making a bad impression in front of his audience ... ".

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