Sport through the lens

This is definitely crazy month. It’s only 11th of January, and tomorrow will be 6th FIS alpine skiing World cup race we covered already, and it will be in third different place.

Having fun with coach of Finnish women team, Janez Slivnik during first run of women Snow queen trophy slalom

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Happy New year everyone! :) I ended year 2009 shooting FIS alpine skiing World cup in Lienz, Austria, and I’m starting year 2010 same way… shooting FIS alpine skiing World cup in Zagreb, Croatia.

Esther Good of Switzerland skiing in first run of women giant slalom World Cup race in Lienz

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It has been a while since my last post. Looking to date of last post (February 26th) feels a little bit more then just a while, and on the other side it feels like time is flying by. I wasn’t all that lazy in between, even though we had some nice holidays during this time, [...]

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New places, new people and some more riding of unknown trails. We returned from Kilpisjarvi, Finland, where it was way too cold for my taste, so bike stayed packed in car. With +8c, wind and cloudy and rainy weather, I found better things to do then mountain biking. But now, we are in Yllas again, [...]

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Approximately 3000 kilometers and we finally closed to our destination, Finnish lapland. We got our first lunch with reindeer as main dish in Kuusamo-Rukka region.

Traditional Karelian meal in small old Karelian village Bomba near Nurmes, Finland.

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Finland is one of countries with endless forests and countless lakes. This means it has to have endless forest roads leading from one to another lake, right? Yes quite right, but not being local brings some “problems” and problems. On the other side, the reason we took our mountain bikes with us, is to solve [...]

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After 26 hours of laying and getting sun tan on deck of ferry boat between Rostock and Helsinki, we moored in Helsinki harbor. Weather was looking promising and we managed to get early (at 6:15am) coffee with friend in Katajanoka.

Lutheran cathedral in Helsinki

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Finally time for my summer holidays is here. Since noone of us is too keen of laying at beach, we have to move even during holidays. So we packed our mountain bikes in car, added tent and sleeping bags and off we are to Finland.

Sandy beaches in Warnemunde in North Germany

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