Decathlon Blog

Season’s last competition from my part was SFI seriefinal last Saturday in Mariehamn. It is a yearly team competition for biggest Finnish Swedish athletics clubs. This year my team did rather badly and ended up fifth out of six teams; as normally we have ended up around second. Our problem is quite common currently at [...]

Back in 2004 I was with Stefan Koivikko on the cover of the Helsingin Sanomat NYT-liite weekly magazine no 36. The story was about us competing against Kekkonen. Naturally, Kekkonen was made of paperboard and we were competing against his records in high jump (scissors), standing triple jump and 100m. It was a lot of [...]

I will be one of the volunteers arranging the Finnish combined events championships for youth classes this weekend (Friday-Sunday). Half of the classes will compete in Leppävaara (Espoo) and the other half in Hiekkaharju (Vantaa). All information here. So if you do not have anything special to do and you are in the neighborhood, come [...]

I checked my poles on Sunday after the Woerden trip and found out that one of my poles was broken. Most likely someone at the airport had driven over the pole with a forklift. I called the airline company to find out that they have a seven day appeal period so they will not compensate [...]

I missed almost totally Osaka games; the only event I really saw on TV was men’s javelin final (the only medal for Finland). It was even difficult to follow the forecasting result service as I was competing in Woerden during the heptathlon and hiking in Kevon reitti (Utsjoki, extreme north Finland) while the decathlon was [...]