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Finnish F1 driver Valtteri Bottas retired from the Eifel Grand Prix in Germany on Sunday, after going into the race in pole position. Bottas was at the head of the grid in front of Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton who was…

Finland’s elite hockey players are lacing up their skates for the start of Liiga competition with more than a dozen games taking place over the weekend. The season got underway on Thursday with a curtain raiser in Hämeenlinna where the…

Finnish F1 driver Valterri Bottas has raced to victory at the Russian Grand Prix, at the expense of his Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton. Bottas lead for most of Sunday’s race in Sochi, and also recorded the fastest lap – despite having…

Finland’s domestic rugby season came to a climax this weekend after a summer season curtailed by coronavirus restrictions. Although other sports have started their competitions again – like football, ice hockey, Finnish baseball and floorball – rugby is unique in…

When Roni Klemola went to play ice hockey on Friday 4th September he was feeling completely fine. The 23-year old forward wasn’t under the weather at all at the rink, with no suspicions he might have coronavirus before he went…

Finnish F1 driver Valtteri Bottas has claimed another podium finish, coming second at the Tuscan Grand Prix in Italy. Bottas’ Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton took first place, his 90th career victory. The race saw a number of incidents and crashes, including a pile-up,…

The KHL season opener for Helsinki ice hockey team Jokerit against Dinamo Minsk in Belarus has been canceled. The team didn’t show up at Helsinki Airport for their early afternoon flight, and shortly afterwards the club and KHL both issued…

The official Jokerit ice hockey supporters club says it will boycott home games in Finland if the team goes ahead with Thursday’s match against Dinamo Minsk in Belarus. In a statement Eteläpääty Ry says they’ve discussed the situation and come…

Helsinki ice hockey club Jokerit are facing a backlash over their decision to go ahead with a game in the Belarus capital Minsk on Thursday, which critics say helps normalise the regime of President Lukashenko, and undermines support for…

Helsinki’s Olympic Stadium – designed in the 1930s, and host of the 1952 summer games – has been given an impressive new makeover. The four-year renovation project cost €300 million and sees much of the original architecture retained, while modernising…