Nordic SkiingCross Country - Finland
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The Finn, who recently married P & auml; rm & auml; Koski, provided a & rsquo; s interesting interview where 360 ​​tells both his sporting and personal life.
Monday 10 November 2014 8 minutes reading time
The winter season is approaching at high speed & agrave ;. Are you satisfied with the preparation you have done for the season? I can not wait & rsquo; s time you started the season, I would say that pretty much everything in the preparation & egrave; went according to plan.
Focused on what you're in run-up? I still have room for improvement in everything but quests & rsquo; s summer I focused my attention on & rsquo; s high altitude training and the strength of my legs.
You train for more & ugrave; alone or with the national team? This season I did not participate in all of the national retreats, but are certainly the backbone of my training. Quest & rsquo; summer I trained alone in Sognfjellet, Seefeld and Vuokatti. I left only the withdrawal of Yllas, since I attended the Blink Festival.
How many hours do you train to & rsquo; s year? This season I've coached around 750 hours.
What do you think of your performance at the Festival Blink? For you it was just part of the preparation or possibly c & rsquo; it was the desire to do a good result? It & rsquo; great to keep in touch with the rest of the world cross-country skiing during the & rsquo; s summer. The main reason why I attended the Blink Festival was to do a good workout, I'm not a fan of the races in city centers & agrave ;.
This season the team's head coach & egrave; Reijo Jylh & auml ;. How are you working with him? He introduced the novelty & agrave ;? Most of the time I spend with my coach Matti Haavisto, but Reijo Jylh & auml; often follow my training and working with Matti, so I am very satisfied. Thanks to them, there & rsquo; & egrave; a great atmosphere in the team. Coach Jylh & auml; has not entered too many novelties & agrave ;, first we are trying to train hard and maintain professionalism & agrave; for the whole team.
Bad luck & egrave; always present in the Finnish team. Both Aino Kaisa Saarinen Anne Kylloenen have suffered an injury. How are you? Have you had any problems during the preparation? Fortunately Quest & rsquo; s year I've avoided any injury.
L & rsquo; s opening World Cup will have & agrave; place as usual in Kuusamo. C & rsquo; & egrave; something special to greet the rival's home terrain? Where do you like to compete in the World Cup? It & rsquo; always nice to compete in front of their home crowd, especially in Kuusamo Lahti and then & egrave; almost a privilege. A & rsquo; other stage of the World Cup that I really like as well as those of home & egrave; that of Davos.
Are you satisfied with the results obtained in Sochi? Yes and no. A few days before the Olympics I got sick. The individual events did not go well & igrave; bad, but the results were not what we expected. After the relay was more & ugrave; than happy to have won the medal & rsquo; silver. It & rsquo; was a great experience for me to watch my fellow Iivo and Sami (Niskanen and Jauhojaervi ed) to win the & rsquo; s gold in the team sprint.
Returning to the relay, you're more & ugrave; happy to have won the & rsquo; silver or disappointed not to have won the medal & rsquo; s gold? It & rsquo; was the relay & more ugrave; exciting of my life. I knew that Kalla would be very hard to beat in the final meters, but I did what I could that day. Obviously it would be great to win the & rsquo; gold, but also the & rsquo; silver & egrave; a great result. An Olympic medal & egrave; always special regardless of the color.
What & egrave; the individual competition in which you think you have more chances at the World Championships in Falun? It & rsquo; hard to say now, but I think the 10km. Perhaps the sprint, but being a sprint & egrave; always unpredictable. We'll see, & egrave; hard to say now and we will have to wait for the & rsquo; s start of the season to see the values ​​in the field. The fight for the medals & egrave; always hard and many athletes have the same goals and dreams.
Do you think the biathlete Kaisa Mäkäräinen would be a big reinforcement for the relay at the World Championships? Kaisa & egrave; and a great athlete & egrave; strong in freestyle, but it's not for me to comment on its decisions.
What would you choose between winning the crystal bowl or a medal & rsquo; s gold in World Championships or Olympics? Definitely a medal & rsquo; s gold.
How did you start cross-country skiing? Did you have any idol? I started very young, but I did different sports and I was not sure what to do with consistency. The step ugrave & more; the great & rsquo; I did spostandomi Vuokatti in 2006 and beginning to compete seriously. As a child I was a big fan of Stefania Belmondo.
What do you like doing in your spare time Krista? Relax at home and play with my dog ​​Carla.
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