Some Slopestyle Knitting
When viewers turn on the NBC broadcast of the men's 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 Saturday's 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 Finland's 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.
"I think that it looks really weird, so it's kind of funny,"
Tonteri said. "Everybody just thinks, 'What's he doing?'"
Tonteri noted that his coach is a slow knitter, but that beats the
alternative: Tonteri doesn't knit at all.
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