Radio | News week in plain Finnish | Sunday 31 March 2024

Sport.

The topic of the news week this time is sports. Kalle Rovanperä won the World Rally Championship. Deciding matches are played in ice hockey’s domestic SM league. The domestic racing series of many summer sports will start soon.

We will now tell you in more detail what interesting things have happened in sports and what will happen soon.

Kalle Rovanperä

Kalle Rovanperä won the World Rally Championship in Kenya at the weekend. Rovanperä will not drive all the rallies this year, so he will not compete for the world championship.

Kalle Rovanperä won the rally world championship in 2022 and 2023.

Ice hockey championship league

There are 5 more teams in the ice hockey championship league. Kalpa from Kuopio and Tappara from Tampere will play in the semi-finals of the 4 best teams. Oulu Kärppi’s opponent is Helsinki IFK or Lahti Pelicans.

The Ice Hockey World Cup, on the other hand, will be played in the Czech Republic this year. The races start on May 10.

European football championships

The European Football Championship will be played in Germany in the summer. Now we know all 24 countries that will participate in the Games. Georgia, Ukraine and Poland made it to the games this week.

Finland will not play in the European Championship because Finland lost the qualifying match to Wales earlier.

The European football championships are usually played every 4 years. However, the previous games were played in 2021 due to the corona virus. Finland participated in those games. The European championship was then won by Italy.

The summer of sports

Summer leagues for many sports will start soon. The men’s Veikkausliiga starts on Saturday, April 6. The Women’s National Football League starts a week later.

The men’s baseball season starts at the end of April and the women’s baseball season starts on May 8.

Starting in April, Yle will show Superpesis, Veikkausliiga and the National League matches on Yle TV2 and Yle Areena.

Repeat

The topic of the news week was sports. Let’s repeat the most important things. Kalle Rovanperä won the World Rally Championship in Kenya. There are still 5 teams competing for the championship of the ice hockey SM league. Now we know all 24 countries that will participate in the European football championships this summer.

This was Uutisviikko in plain Finnish, see you again. Goodbye!