Skiing with OA and J_M ;-)

i only watched the first round... had to go to work. too bad i missed the second run. maybe i ´ll catch the Re-Live on ES tomorrow.

 

MESA WON!


OOOOOOOOOO
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EDIT: He smiled!!!

 

It was nice to see Janne won this four hills tournament for second time. And it was nice to see such norwegian success for a change. Kojonkoski has done great job.



Here's a nice news article about Eddie The Eagle from last year.

 

btw: what happened to Ville Kantee and Jani Soininen? DId they quit and I didn´t hear about it?



EDIT: Link doesn´t work....geocities... hm you gotta copy/paste

http://www.geocities.com/johannarantanen/finteam/janyt.jpg

 

Soininen quit jumping but I have no idea what Kantee does nowadays.

 

must have missed it

 

I'm a bit late, I know

Congrats to Ahonen, he realy earned it!

 

Now that Ahonen won he's got some financial problems. He got about 30000 ? and that car which is worth about 70000 ? but thanks to Finland's tax system he has to pay taxes about 40000 ?. Ahonen said that if he accepts the car he'll have to sell his house. It's interesting to see what he'll make.

 

oh come on! I could understand he´d have to pay tax for the cash he got, but for the car? That´s just not fair. He wins once and he´s to pay so much tax! I think he should move to Monaco

EDIT: Can´t he just sell the car (he´d have about 100,000) then pay the taxes (-40,000) and he´d still have 60,000 Euro. He could still buy a pretty decent car. I mean 60,000 Euro is still a lot of money... at least WAY MORE than I have

 

well, if you pcik me up for a ride, you can have the car if you want
Btw. I´ll probably come to Sweden in June. It´s a University fieldtrip to discover Sweden´s rocks It will be 8 days just running around in the countryside looking at granite and other stones

sure it is sad, but i kinda understand why they are doing it. austria somehow managed to get a lot of them back, though. lowered the taxes or something. dunno exactly.

 

Lets see... we´ll stay in
Mölle
Ahus (A with that ring on top, can´t find it on my keyboard)
Lammhult and
Laholm

We are 2 groups. One starting in Mölle, one in Laholm. I dunno in which group I am gonna be, though.

 

Well today wasn't very good day for Finnish skijumpers, only Veli-Matti "Vellu" Lindström managed to get into top ten. Janne Ahonen was 20th which is not very good result.

Hannawald was again best but I'm quite worried about the Austrian jumpers: again 5 jumpers in top ten. It will be difficult to beat them in Val di Fiemme. It's not very long time to that.

 

yeah Morgenstern for example. how old is he? 16? and he´s already one of the best. well, could be just for this season, like Amman just for the olympic games...but still... I hope Janne does better tomorrow!

OOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOO Sven Hannawald
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OOOOOOOOOOFlorian Liegl
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OOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOAdam Malysz
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Well Ahonen jumped better today than yesterday, otherwise practically nothing else changed.


I don't watch much cross country skiing anymore, but I like to practice it myself. And this winter I have had good chances to do that even here in South Finland.

 

yeah, i donßt even have to change the order of flags... BORING!

i´ve only been cross-county skiing once. i do downhill almost every year, though

 

I did downhill quite actively until I turned 15. Then my equipment got too small for me and didn't ask my parents to buy me a new set. So after that I haven't done that. I might someday try it again. I was pretty good in it after all.

 

As I read that Nagiller has won in Hakuba, my first thought was "Who?"

The Austrians are scary this winter...

 

oh yeah!

 

As I read that Nagiller has won in Hakuba, my first thought was "Who?"

I had exactly same thought.

Austrians are scary.

But it was nice thing that Matti Hautamäki jumped well for a change.

 

didn´t watch Hakuba must have been a great event!