Kari-Pekka Kyrö, Jari Isometsä and Per-Lindell told you 20 years ago a stir when the International ski federation Norwegian boss Odd Martinsen put Mika Myllylä way unlawful the conditions of the incident.Norway’s Thomas Alsgaard (vas.) win Mika Myllylä Finnish standards-a bitter 15-kilometer free pursuit chariot race in the final straight of the kirikamppailussa. ESA FINLAND
ramsaun in hundred in February 1999, the snow so sakeasti that forward, can see 25 meters farther. The next day in the program is 15 km men free pursuit chariot race, in which the traditional ten MM-gold medalist Mika Myllylä goes first.
the Difference between hard skate skiers Björn Dählie , Fulvio Valbusa , Jari Isometsää and Thomas Alsgaardin is 26.4–57,5 seconds.
the Race is not fair. The international ski federation FIS should change the pursuit of a temporary departure, as the rules say, Myllylä said Finnish head coach Kari-Pekka Kyrölle .
weather Forecast promises that the very heavy snowfall will continue for 15 miles during the race. It knows that Myllylä had to plow a furrow. Back left to benefit significantly, when loose snow is less and the glide will be improved.
Kyrö and other Finnish leaders take to soften the slovenian competition technical experts Peter Petricekiä and the FIS cross-country division of the Norwegian director Odd Martinsenin . Kyrö lappish blood boil, when skiing in the lord you are not going to change the race program. The main argument for is that the international tv-program map go again, if skiing competition will be extended.
we Stress, that it becomes contrary to the rules of the race, when athletes do not receive equal conditions. We will negotiate and put pressure, but the position is not changed. Petricek was Martinsenin lap dog, who did not dare to do anything without Norwegian consent, Kyrö recalls 20 years later.
Martinsen was at that time the strongest man in international skiing, the Finnish maintenance manager ramsaun in a Per-Lindell tell.
Rods of the millimeter
Before Ramsaun MM-ski in Myllylä pounding in the media that he is leaving 30 miles of open travel between. Traditional ski king brought up, that free is still weaker way forward.
in fact, Myllylä was practicing free in considerable quantities – a little bit in the same way as Iivo Niskanen this season.
In 1998, the skiing outfit along with the Racing and sporting excellence-the research centre was made Myllylä freedom technique for accurate analysis.
– Created a little animation, how after the kick the acceleration and the ski sliding progressed. Mika sucked really a lot of information about animation, Myllylä career in the 90s very closely followed in Finland in the 1995-98 maintenance manager Harri Aaltonen tell.
Karpaasille more than 100 pairs of atomic’s skis, with the service ranked as the weakest away.
– Sticks Mika hienosääti extremely accurately. He said that taken at 0.5 cents off, then he did a couple of workouts and say, that is put on 0.2 cents back. A few a couple of there rods go. Mika was pursuing perfection: not morbidly, but exceptionally analytically, Aaltonen ripping apart.
three ten temporary departure MM-start ramsaun in Myllylä’s line. Snow sakeasti, like the year before Nagano olympic games in a similar way to the traditional style.
– Guy the-weather, to announce the Tapio Suominen yle of the commentary booth.
Myllylä leads from the first intermediate time point until the finish.
– Mika was infinitely much upper body strength and long limbs. He was able to, especially uphill to take advantage of the ski slide. And of course, Mika’s oxygen uptake was exceptionally hard, Aaltonen analysis.
aspen lake host the gold is Finland’s first and so far the only men’s event win skating style.
– Mika medals only Nagano olympic gold goes ahead, Lindell said.
a Few days later came the ten-mile traditional race win Ramsaun part was waiting. Contemporaries characterize suomalaisässän the gold medal in the “basic bet”.
Mika Myllylä 30 miles MM-gold ramsaun in 1999 is still the Finnish men only value the race win skating style. ESA finland impulse käryille
fifteen miles the pursuit will not change from temporary leave of Finnish heavy pressure. It is a skiing policy: Martinsen appeals to a tv-program on the map, while at the same time, he sure knows, that the arrangement recommended is Finnish guarantee outgoing Norwegian.
– Mika was taken to completely clear the gold medal, Kyrö thunder.
Dählie drive a snowplow-Myllylä caught on, but will stop completely the last kilometres. Nearly a minute back the way to become Alsgaard grab myllylä I caught about five kilometers before the finish. Myllylä is not able to last five miles during the round hill exit.
– in the Sauna after the race there was talk that Mika was taken to sure the gold. He had such a big head start. The competition was pretty close to farce, Lindell recalls.
Finish time louder kirimiehenä liked Norwegian washes Finnish.
– Alsgaardin gold for me is entirely worthless – it’s been robbed. Sure, he was technically one of the 90-ies of the best skate skiers, but she wouldn’t be a fair race could not Mika nothing. The pursuit of gold was in advance Mika even easier to the championship. He was that time the king, who was superior in condition. Now, I think the silver is somehow palatable, Kyrö line.
the Gold lost in the Finnish appeared calmly after the race.
I don’t think that I lost the gold medal, while the high-drive ski was. But equitable would have been if the race we changed a temporary left, Myllylä statement.
Mika Myllylä (vas.) and Jari Isometsä were friends also on the track outside. IL-archive
20 years after the events, that the guy was after the race surprisingly calm.
Yes, he approved. Of course the race was supposed to ski in a temporary departure, but it is outdoor sports, so such was possible, Isometsä tell.
Kyrölle and with it the national team of the episode may have been the initial impetus of the gulf of the 2001 events.
I Took such a strong stance, that I had ski federation management interview. Martinsen and partners were injured in the heart bottom. A couple of years later, Kyrö says.
Speech interruption
chase after the English left as a favorite post, but failed to hold grease in the traditional sections of the ruined Harri kirvesniemi and Myllylä seams.
Myllylä start a head trip to his five-ten race on insecure feeling ones.
– race of the first half of the stadium area Which should seriously go for it. He shouted that this won’t be any, but intends to suspend. Well, it was kind of Mika game, Lindell told me.
the heat wave had made Ramsaun tracks in the soft slush. Go wet snow skis paste hold.
I was Used to compromise lubrication, where the ski is all the track sections have.
during the Race Myllylä wrap sleeves, threw the hat and only Andrus Veerpalu be able to challenge the Finnish. Five ten gold loose 31,8 seconds Estonian.
– What is our during the life of the only Finnish ski king – and that he might stay. All the results that Mika reached, are fully comparable in its time to the business environment, Kyrö says.
the Winning touch! Mika Myllylä cast his eyes to heaven, when he reached the Ramsaun MM-hiihdoissa in 1999, fifty miles to the traditional approach interval start race gold medal. AOP
Sometimes myllylä’s grip slipped, the value of the race in the middle of the event the track outside, but 20 years ago in Austria champion was highly motivated from beginning to end.
Nagano olympic gold was mentally very important. He got that self-confidence Ramsaun 1999. In addition, he liked really a lot of them off-road, Lindell’s assessment.
Isometsä noted that his friend was probably his career kukkeimmassa condition 20 years ago.
But it must be remembered that ramsaun in the Norwegian power was a little down. the Vegard Ulvang was finished, and Dählie was no longer the best bet. Also Vladimir Smirnov was finished, and not the italians been in the attack. The time was opportune for Mika, Isometsä said.
dählie to myllylä, the success was too much.
the reason mentioned back pain, but in fact it was about, she didn’t want to lose Mika more, Kyrö says.
_*myllylä quote of the day magazine tekstiarkistosta_.
Mika Myllylä won 20 years ago, three world championship gold medals and one silver. All the medals come from personal travel. KARI PEKONEN
