Seriously? I thought I was seeing things.... this just made me laugh! Some Slopestyle Knitting When viewers turn on the NBC broadcast of the mens snowboard slopestyle finals Saturday night, they might see an odd site at the top of the course: a man knitting a scarf. That man is Antti Koskinen, Finland coach, and at Saturdays competition he was busily working cream-colored yarn with green needles. The scarf is something others on the Finnish team will add to before handing it off to Finlands Summer Olympic team going to Rio de Janeiro in 2016. What they will do with a giant scarf in South America is unclear. The idea for Koskinen to work on the scarf at the starting gate was that of Finnish snowboarder Roope Tonteri, who finished 11th Saturday. 2014 Olympic organizers eager to draw younger TV viewers have added a new event--slopestyle. With separate ski and snowboard competitions, slopestyle athletes perform tricks on a mountainside course that resembles a snowy skate park. I think that it looks really weird, so its kind of funny, Tonteri said. Everybody just thinks, Whats he doing? Tonteri noted that his coach is a slow knitter, but that beats the alternative: Tonteri doesnt knit at all.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:01:32 +0000
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