{"id":3407,"date":"2025-06-15T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:17:53","slug":"minister-poutala-left-with-a-positive-first-impression-of-jukola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/en\/minister-poutala-left-with-a-positive-first-impression-of-jukola\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Poutala Left with a Positive First Impression of Jukola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mika Poutala<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the newly appointed Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity, served as the anchor for the Finnish Parliament\u2019s sports club team in the Jukola Relay. Poutala had no personal expectations for his leg or the race in general, but he had read that the terrain would be challenging. The course, however, included surprises\u2014such as unexpectedly long legs between controls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt times, I had to go on all fours,\u201d Poutala said, describing his performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poutala orienteered for the first time in over 20 years, and he had never previously competed with a bib number. He prepared for the race by running a lot, but his actual orienteering practice took place calmly in the forest, walking with a compass and map in hand. The team\u2019s preparation was fairly individual, and for example, leg assignments were agreed upon in the team\u2019s WhatsApp group. Unknowingly, Poutala chose the longest leg of the relay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poutala said the experience left a good impression. He plans to participate in the Jukola Relay again next year, if his work schedule allows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to Poutala, the Finnish Parliament\u2019s team included <\/span><b>Matias M\u00e4kynen, Jarmo Limnell, Ville Laakso, Frans Pylkk\u00e4nen, Oskari Valtola<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><b>Johanna Kyll\u00f6inen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Text and photo:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Onni P\u00e4nk\u00e4l\u00e4inen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Translation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Mariya Loginova <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mika Poutala, the newly appointed Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity, served as the anchor for the Finnish Parliament\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ajankohtaista-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}