Urheilulehti has rather woeful look for Finnish ski jumping both this season and in the future. Unfortunately they are probably right. The reporter writes how HautamÀki and Muotka are in some shape and Anssi has been a big positive surprise and will surely be in Finnish team at Oslo (and what this then again tells) but that Kalle has lost his jump totally, Rane still lost with equipment (and maybe also motivation fading because of that), Ville hurt, Havu convalescent, Harri "working with his head problems" and in addition jumping part-time bases how and if he can and Ruuskanen jumping in the level he has potential to. And how badly this all looks in World Cup standings. But that bigger problem is, that young promising jumpers are still so young, that it is not even a option to do it so, that try to jump them at WC this winter when Finland has problems to send full teams to competitions.
The reporter predicts that the dark times for Finnish ski jumping have just become, if they can not find and revive few lost and abandoned appropriately aged yesterdays young promises they so carelessly tended to cast away even few years ago.
The one 'positive' note they had find this week was, at it was lucky that the person who got hurt (Ville) was one of those who used more standard bindings, not totally home made (like Matti and Rane) because the insurance company would probably not be too cooperative with the home made bindings that don't open...