Ski jumping and sprint - Lahti 2012

Days like today make you like winter season and Finland in particular. No, I'm not a huge fun of winter sports and I don't know much about ski jumping and not even tiny bit about cross-country skiing. But it's different to watch those disciplines on tv and another thing to be there and see everything in flesh. And for at least two reasons. First - Finnish people are huge funs of cross-country skiing and if you don't share their excitement you are considered weird and second - from this year on suddenly Poland has become huge fun of the one because we have a new star - Justyna Kowalczyk, who is really good and all the Poles love her. Anyway, we went there and for our surprise the biggest group of funs was from Poland. White-red flags were everywhere and we only heard "Polska, bialo-czerwoni!" The weather in Lahti was gorgeous, sunny, no wind and very little frost. Wanda had fun too after I explained her what's going on with those jumping. First the guy goes on a slide, than he flies and at the end he lands right next to us. Bingo! She was saying "again, again!" I had fun too. It's really nice to see, how does it look like. The ski jumping hill is huge. Much higher than I expected. When you stay downstairs the starting jumpers seem to be so tiny and so far away. Unfortunately none of the Polish ski jumpers was successful but at least Kowalczyk won the third place. She was very good, but well, two others were still better. Anyway, it was a great day, family picnic in the snow. And here're some pics: