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The greatest Finnish skier in history has recounted the difficulties of the post retreat. He deals with a thousand activities and would like to try being a coach.
Thursday 2 July 2020 2 minutes reading time
Behind the end of an athlete's career there are always problems and a thousand uncertainties.
It is far from simple to break the umbilical cord with your sport, as happened to a champion who was Kalle Palander: slalom champion in Vail 1999, winner of a World Cup in the specialty (in 2003 ) and able to triumph 14 times in the maximum circuit (10 in slalom, 4 in giant), the Finnish class who wrote the history of his nation in the white circus, experienced really complicated moments after the farewell to the skiing, matured due to knee injury in 2011, when in Soelden he took part for the last time in a race of CdM.
As he confessed to the Finnish media, in the interview filmed by sportnews.bz, Palander said that "the career was not over as I wanted and every weekend I watched the races on TV, thinking what I was doing at home". His wife Riina-Maija explained that her husband was so depressed that he "tried to commit suicide with alcohol" before he was born again and changed his life.
“I now work on Finnish state TV as a technical expert for skiing, as well as being the sales manager for a company that produces artificial snow. However, I would like to work in the environment as a coach ".
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