Women's World Boxing Championships: Olympic medallist Mira Potkonen emerges as flag-bearer of conventional sports in Finland
6 years, 2 months ago

Women's World Boxing Championships: Olympic medallist Mira Potkonen emerges as flag-bearer of conventional sports in Finland

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Having won Finland’s only medal at Rio Olympics, boxer Mira Potkonen has become a flag-bearer for conventional sports in a country where events like Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships and Wife Carrying World Championships are now the biggest rage. “People in Finland have a crazy mentality,” she blurts out as she attempts to answer why her countrymen are obsessed with ‘sports’ which range from slightly unconventional to the purely unhinged “Sports like Wife Carrying World Championships and Swamp Soccer World Championships are an obsession back in our country because people there like to do fun things amidst nature. The medal whilst propelling her to overnight celebrity status in her country, also inadvertently made Potkonen, a mother of two, the flag-bearer of boxing, nay summer Olympic sports, in Finland. Potkonen, who is in New Delhi for the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships, which start from Thursday, says: “Boxing is a relatively small sport in Finland despite its old tradition in our country.

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