The board of the Finnish Orienteering Federation has decided that Russian and Belarussian teams will be banned from participating in 2022 Jukola and Nuorten Jukola relays. Jukola relay is the world\u2019s largest orienteering relay and even though Jukola is not an IOF event, Jukola follows the same principles as the international IOF events.<\/p>\n
Next summer\u2019s Lukkari-Jukola\u2019s competition manager Petri Paukkunen<\/strong> is relieved with the decision. Mika Ilom\u00e4ki<\/strong>, the managing director of the Finnish Orienteering Federation, states that the decision was the only one possible, but he also wishes that orienteerers will hold their cool. Next summer\u2019s Lukkari-Jukola will be held in Myn\u00e4m\u00e4ki on 18th to 19th of June. It is expected that about 20 000 orienteerers will participate the event that is organized by Liedon Parma and Myn\u00e4m\u00e4en Suunnistajat -52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The board of the Finnish Orienteering Federation has decided that Russian and Belarussian teams will be banned from participating in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":6835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yleinen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n-FOF\u2019s policy to support Ukrainians in their distress by excluding Russian and Belarussian teams from Jukola relay is of course what we as organizers also wanted. There are only about three months left to Lukkari-Jukola and that period is very busy with various arrangements.
\n-We as organizers have the responsibility to organize Jukola as well as possible and that is what we are going to concentrate on during the next months, continues Paukkunen.<\/p>\n
\n-There are Russian orienteerers in multiple Finnish orienteering clubs. Some of them live in Finland permanently, some are here on a temporary basis, some have double citizenship and so forth. These people will not be excluded from Jukola on any criteria. It is worth remembering that there are about tens of thousands Russian citizens who live in Finland and are a part of our society.<\/p>\n