Decathlon Blog

L’Equipe.fr has an amateur video on police officers arresting Eunice Barber 18.3. after she was alleged to have bitten officers who had arrested her near the Stade de France. Yahoo! news has a short story in English here. Barber is accusing the police for using too much power when arresting her while the police says [...]

I don’t have to think about what to do during the rest of this week as I’ll be coaching young pole vaulters in Liikuntamylly starting today. I’m covering for the actual coach as he’s busy this weekend. There is a camp for young athletes so the place will be fairly crowded for the whole weekend. [...]

There are a lot of weird things in Finland. One of them is the Baltic sea that actually freezes during the cold winter. There are couple of ice skating tracks made on the sea here in Helsinki. One of them is next to the rowing stadium near the centre of Helsinki. That one is only [...]

TeliaSonera today announced to continue sponsoring Finnish top athletes and the networks that have been created around the athletes till the end of 2008. The networks consist of young athletes, coaches and managers. Co-operation runs under the name Team Sonera. Supported events are: sprint both men and women, jumps and combined events. As [...]

Finally!

Miihkinen had acquired the preliminary timetable for the SELL Games and kindly forwarded it to me, so here it is:
XXII SELL Games - Tartu Student Games 2006
ATHLETICS preliminary time schedule
May 19, 2006
14.00 100 m W
14.05 Javelin throw W
14.10 Triple jump M
14.15 High jump W
14.20 100 m M
14.45 100 m hurdles W
15.10 110 m hurdles M
15.30 400 m W
Javelin throw M
15.35 Triple jump W
15.40 High jump M
15.45 400 m M
16.05 1500 m W
16.20 1500 m M
16.40 100 m [...]

I have participated to SELL games in the last two years; 2004 in Tampere and 2005 in Riga. My posts are still on the old Decathlon Blog here (I should move those here someday). Especially last year’s trip was really nice and I have registered to this year’s event as well. According to the informative [...]

I spent the weekend as a volunteer for the Finnish indoor championships for classes U18, U20 and U23. Competitions were held in Liikuntamylly and my team Esbo IF had the main responsibility to organise the competition. My job was to video tape all the 60m starts and the other runs all the way. In the [...]