World Cup Lahti Ski Games

WORLD CUP LAHTI

 

Last weekend was the World Cup Ski Games of Lahti, a total of 23 countries have participated : Austria, Australia, Canada, Great-Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kazakstan, Lichtenstein, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Swedem, The USA, Korea, Bulgaria and Estonia.

I went to see the games on Saturday and Sunday, I could go also on Friday but the weather was awful, so I decided to stay at home.

On Saturday I went to see the Ski Jumping Group Race, it was the first time in my life to see this kind of competitions, as all of you know in Spain there is not much snow, actually I don´t even think there is any Ski jumping tower at all in my country.There was so many people at the competition area, quite surprinsing because there is normally not many people at the city, at least on winter time, we will see how is on summer. I was very amazed how high athletes have to jump, to give you an idea how tall it is, you can see  the Ski Jumping Tower practically from any place in Lahti, also during the nights thanks to its illumination.

 

 

I woke up early on Sunday and I went to see the Cross Country Female Race, the males one was at ten o´clock in the morning that´s way to early for me. After the Cross Country race there was the Ski Jumping Individual Race. Sunday was a foggy day so I couldn´t see the top of the ski jumping tower, but anyway

I really enjoy the competitions even though my country was not participating and Finalnd was not as good as the rest of the countries.

After the races there was a party place with lots of concerts, what I didn´t understand was that all the artists playing there were Finnish singing most of their songs in finnish, Is a world cup!!!, were many people from different parts of the world came to lahti, to enjoy the event, so why the organizer didn´t think about the tourists? It would be much more fun if the concerts would be more international.