Sport

Authorities in Oulu are on the lookout for someone who has been pooping in a city pool. Workers are Raksila swimming hall say they’ve found human feces in the water four times already during the past month. The clean-up operation has…

Any hopes of resurrecting professional ice hockey in Espoo have been put on ice, at least for the next few years. In April, Espoo United went into bankruptcy, the second time in two years that a pro hockey franchise in…

Finnish snowboard star Matti Suur-Hamari has won gold in the snowboard cross competition in Pyeongchang. He’s already a world champion in the LL2 classification event, and today beat American Keith Gabel in the Paralympic finals in South Korea. Suur-Hamari carried the…

Winter Olympic athletes returning from Pyeongchang got an Air Force escort as they crossed into Finnish air space this afternoon. A Hornet fighter aircraft from Karelia met the Finnair flight from South Korea and accompanied it towards Helsinki Airport. On arrival,…

Finland’s Krista Pärmäkoski has added another bronze to her Pyeongchang Olympic medal haul, after a dramatic photo-finish to the 10km freestyle cross country ski event. Race officials couldn’t find any daylight between Pärmäloski and her Norwegian rival Marit Björgen who were…

Finnish snowboard racer Enni Rukajärvi has snatched a bronze medal in the slopestyle event at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. It’s Finland’s second snow medal in South Korea so far. Gold went to the USA, and silver went to Canada. But Rukajärvi’s…

The first medals of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea have been claimed by three Nordic countries. Norway and Sweden took gold and silver in the skiathlon event. Finland’s Krista Pärmäkoski took bronze, opening Finland’s medal count in Pyeongchang. "I…

They call him ‘The Finnisher’ in Chicago. And Finland’s top NBA export Lauri Markkanen lived up to his name on Sunday night as he scored 17 points for the Bulls against the Milwaukee Bucks. It wasn’t enough to give the Chicago…

One of Finland’s top snowboarders has scored a boost heading into the Winter Olympics. Enni Rukajärvi came third in the X Games slopestyle competition in Aspen. Heavy snow caused organisers some uncertainty whether the competition could go ahead, and gave snowboarders…

Myllypuro in east Helsinki is the unlikely setting for a sports milestone this weekend. When the Finland men’s rugby national team take on Norway, there will be a female referee in charge. It’s the first time a woman has ever refereed…