Our New Year surprise emoji celebrates Finnish ski-jumping madness and its ex officio representative, the world’s most successful ski jumper ever, Matti Nykänen.
Finns have started to independently help asylum seekers integrate on the football field. Sports unite people: everyone wants to play towards the same goal.
Every March in Border to Border, participants ski more than 440 kilometres (273 miles) across northern Finland in an annual, multiday journey open to all.