Virpi Sarasvuo back memorable moments of the Tour de Skillä 10 years ago.Virpi Kuitunen (front) and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen fall to the project of the Tour de Skin end after the rise of the Italian ski resort of the year 2009. EPA / AOP
– Kuitunen dying now, screaming announcer-person Kjell-Erik Kristiansen in Italy, the Alpe Cermis ski slope on top.
Finland, Virpi Kuitunen is losing the Tour de Skin win, when Aino-Kaisa Saarinen forging guarantee over about two miles before the finish. Fierce pain with a fighting Kuitunen seems to be on the ropes.
– No, I wasn’t on the ropes. I have not run out of condition, and I wasn’t acids. I just went at such a pace where I know I can do. I was in good health at the stage when the “Aikku” passed me, Virpi Sarasvuo (no.p. Kuitunen) recalls ten years ago.
“Life competition”
the new year on the eve of the 2008 Tour de Skin four leg skiing Czech Nove Mestossa. Women should have a distance of nine miles in the traditional, but lumipula because of the route is at least a kilometer shorter.
It was the best competition. I could ski, although how long the same pace. Was such a freezing day. All the action from the body of the ski. I never experienced in my career similar success, Sarasvuo says.
He won nearly 40 seconds Saariseen and 50 seconds difference between the Marit björgen was .
the Next day you go skiing sprint, which is a smooth Finnish ok. He jumps happy to Finnish the little bus and leaves the decision to place the municipality of Val di Fiemme.
the soles of the Feet feel that the tendon is a little tight. Stretching on the bus and I didn’t think anything alarming. When you get to Italy, I didn’t walk.
Tour de Skin leg Nove Mestossa in December 2008 was Virpi Kuitunen a career-best competition. EPA / AOPKontaten the bathroom
in January, the second day of the 2009 skier’s morning wake-up competitions for the intermediate days is rude.
I crawled over to the bathroom, when otherwise I couldn’t move.
Team doctor Harri Hakkarainen diagnosis of the position of the diaphragm inflammation. He gave the athlete on crutches.
– the All important return to the exercises left to do.
3.1.2009 Val di fiemme in lykitään traditional ten common slots. Finnish eating pain meds and having anesthesia.
the end Result is health problems in a sensational victory. Two come to Petra Majdic bend of 13.8 seconds and the tour’s overall competition in the main opponent for popping by Saarinen to 20.5 seconds.
on the suit
the tour’s final rose on the day inflamed the heel does not take stepping. The athlete moves kainalosauvoilLisäksi there has been a new tragedy: hallux valgus the big toe next to it is painful.
And then there’s the back. Star athlete of the year was fought for a particular skating style skiing the lumbar of the vertebral troubles. The problem you highlighted, when you keep going to the steep uphill.
Hakkarainen is drafted with the armor: feet pohjeongelmia for ski boots of the heel cup, back anesthesia and bunion relief toe spacing padding use.
– the ski to the intermediary on extreme gear.
the afternoon race had to get.
the Week had gone so great, that had a chance to start first. Without previous cup successes would not have come to nothing.
the Difference Saariseen before the decision to travel to 31.7 seconds.
Virpi Kuitunen seemed to be smiling, when Aino-Kaisa Saarinen was bent and the Tour de Skin won was coming home. Jukka ritola and jari moved to
– Kuitunen has awakened to life, the announcer Kristiansen bellow, in Italy.
Kuitunen comes closer to the Island and go in the last kilometre to the tip. Women fighting attitude raises a particularly great admiration for a well-known Finnish.
I Feel like that should be whipped the axe back. With it was able to go skiing, but if the free go above a certain level, the pain was terrible – it feels like deep in the back of the axe was turned on.
the ski slope on top Kuitunen ventilate number one. Saarinen lose seven seconds. Winner of the signed prize money a total of 105 000 eur.
the trouble you caused it, that the last of my career, a good run to come on the Tour. I appreciate the battle won really high. Profit as a result still affect my life – it caused a very good thing.
an Exceptionally great admiration felt for the person was Jari Sarasvuo .
– Tour win got us to meet, although not the first meeting got the love blaze.
Virpi and Jari were married in the summer of 2010. Later, the family has grown by two daughters.
Virpi and Jari Sarasvuo photographed in 2014. Timo Korhonen / AOPVideolla Virpi and Jari Sarasvuo my Brother’s keeper movie premiere.
