Finnish Winter Sports are Coming to Bet on Soon

Winter is coming
• Finland’s season to shine
• Ski jumping & biathlon
• Better than Formula one

Winter is coming. The chill air of November, however mild it might be, still holds the sharp crispness that warns of less clement weather to come. Whilst some of us might recoil from this seasonal change in climate for some who like to bet on sports in Finland just can’t wait for winter and the sports it brings with it, sports where their countrymen win and don’t just go round and round in circles fast.

Now obviously Finnish winter sports fans prefer ice hockey which remains the most popular and well attended sport in Finland, football is popular but by no means to the same degree, and that’s not a big surprise given their recent performance in the Euro 2016 qualifiers where they slumped to more losses than wins, and as many draws as that, losing out even the chance at a play-off coming home in fourth place of Group F behind Northern Ireland, Romania and Hungary (who took full advantage).

Of course Finland don’t really have an illustrious footballing history to maintain, they’ve never qualified for a World Cup, never qualified for the Euro competition, they just don’t really feature in the top flight of International fooball, which is a shame, because no one else really takes part in the activities Finnish winter sports fans enjoy. Oh sure the other Nordic nations join in, and yes, the Canadians play ice hockey too, however the Winter Olympics in Sochi proved, no one cares.

Most memories the vast majority of us have of Sochi were the tweets about competitors accommodation being full of wolves, odd toilets and the sort of comfort and charm that Stalin introduced in the Gulag back in the fifties. The events and medals all seem a bit hazy, a collection of blurry memories featuring brightly colored lycra going swwooooshhh, a parade of smiling medalists in parkas. Finnish winter sports fascination is almost inversely proportionate to that of the rest of us.

Finnish Winter Sports To Wager On

Those that take advantage of Finnish gambling laws do so to wager on much of the same things the rest of us do, but the proportion of those outside the Nordic region that wager on winter sports, even Finnish winter sports, is woeful, which is a bit of a shame because with their football being a tad lackluster, the only things anyone knows them for is driving, and these days that means Formula One, possibly the dullest motor sport on the planet at the current time.

Yes I know, they do drive awfully quickly, but as Bernie Ecclestone and co have mercilessly pursued safety that has become progressively more and more anal, milliseconds counting so much that where once there were colorful characters and epic battles there are now parades of cars competing with the drivers just an appendage, a repetitive biological machine with precisely the sort of bland personality you’d expect. Lewis Hamilton is champion, and they think he’s the life and soul of the party because he has earrings.

Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen might not be winning races but at least you’d hope they’d provide some moments of amusement, some interesting sparring, some interludes from the monotony but someone in the Corporate background at Ferrari has beaten the laconic sarcasm out of Kimi, and Valtteri has the chubby childlike features of someone constantly trying to remember something, which of course they all are, the corners. Such dull repetitive roboticism can’t possible compete with Finnish winter sports.

Skiing, Jumping & Shooting – Better than car crashes?

Sure, in Formula One you get the odd crash from time to time, but the sheer drama of people throwing themselves off hills whilst on skis is far more watchable, the inherent danger of driving at 200mph might have been removed by those overly willing to pander to the health-and-safety lobby, but the risks in ski jumping remain regardless, each competitor gambling news headlines on the back pages won’t be of their broken neck, and in Finland they love it, it’s one of the popular Finnish winter sports.

The biathlon isn’t something they’ve fared awfully well in over the years but still it makes for great viewing and superb wagering fodder. They might not allow running and shooting in the summer Olympics but when it comes to the Winter games skiing with a gun on your back is just the another event beloved by Finnish winter sports fans. Even by itself cross-country skiing makes Formula One look dull, the style of each competitor by far more interesting that just a different paint job some clever software.

So this winter rather than bemoan the snow and ice, bet on it, or at least those that compete upon it because with sites like ComeOn! Sportsbook offering local odds across the net you can be sure to get a great deal more opportunities to increase you bank-roll than by betting on the Finns in Formula One. Finnish winters sports might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but quite often that’s because they’ve never take the time to get to know more about, or even watch, what so many Finnish winter sports fans adore.