Sport

Finland’s under-20 ice hockey team crushed Switzerland in the semi finals of the World Junior Championships in Canada. In the early hours of Saturday morning the Young Lions put the puck in the back of the net as regularly as…

The Finnish ice hockey team got off to a disappointing start at the World Junior Championship in Canada, losing 1-2 against rivals Sweden on Wednesday. The tournament is for players under 20-years old, and is being hosted in Vancouver and…

The Finnish men’s floorball team has won the World Championship for the second time in a row. In a high-scoring Sunday night final in Prague, the Finns beat arch rivals Sweden 6-3 to claim the title. Floorball, known as salibandy in…

Finnish NBA star Lauri Markkanen says he’ll stop eating red meat. It’s part of a campaign called #DontChoke where the Chicago Bulls player has teamed up with Finnish oil company Neste to warn of the dangers of climate change. "As my first…

Finnish drivers finished a credible third and fifth at Sunday’s Brazil Grand Prix. Kimi Räikkönen took the chequered flag in third place in his Ferrari – a car he won’t be driving for much longer. For the 2019 season the…

Finnish gamer Joona Sotala has been crowned StarCraft II World Champion at a tournament in California, and netted a prize pot of $280,000. The e-athlete wrote that he was "speechless and extremely happy" in a Twitter post. Sotala plays for the Finnish ENCE e-sports…

Finland’s next generation of elite athletes returned this week from competing in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games which were held in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. Young athletes from 206 countries took part in the 12 day event, across…

The Finnish men’s rugby national team have scored their first ever international win against Denmark with a 22-18 victory in Helsinki on Saturday afternoon. But it was a far-from-decisive result against the Danes, who played a more physical game, looked…

Some of the world’s best ice skaters are in Espoo this weekend, competing in the annual Finlandia Trophy at Metro Arena. The action started on Friday, with the men, women and pairs short skate programme. So far in the men’s competition,…

Have you already taken your skis, snowboard and winter clothes out of storage? You’d better do it quickly if you want to hit the slopes on the first weekend of the season! Ruka ski resort in north east Finland is open…