Despite what happened in Lahti 2001 and all sad turns of event after that, we may with all due respect say that he was a great athlete.
RIP Mika
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22 July 2011
Mika Myllylä and the famous snap of his skiing pole - Lillehammer winter olympics 1994
Just couple of weeks ago the surprising and sad news told that the famous finnish nordic skiing athlete Mika Myllylä has suddenly passed away. Purely by coincidence I browsed my illustration archives yesterday and stumbled upon an illustration which I had made somewhere in the end of 1990's for the Cosmos magazine. The article was making top-list of the most disastrous instants in finnish sport history. One of those unfortunate moments was when Mika Myllylä broke his skiing pole during the furious winter olympic race in Lillehammer 1994 and lost chances to take his first personal medal.
Despite what happened in Lahti 2001 and all sad turns of event after that, we may with all due respect say that he was a great athlete.
RIP Mika
Despite what happened in Lahti 2001 and all sad turns of event after that, we may with all due respect say that he was a great athlete.
RIP Mika
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Great drawing. Can I use it as illustration for a group of crazy XC Skiers from Texas ?
ReplyDeleteThanks Bjorn. Sorry, but this one is kind of special. But what if I make you a new one, just for your purpose? It would be great to illustrate a crazy skier after a while... which has been too long already :)
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