28.08.10 – Max’s teacher handed me some tickets when I picked him up Friday. She told me, “this is a big Finland vs. Sweden athletic event… there will definitely be some fighting!” I wasn’t sure if the hockey season started this early or it was a football/soccer match. Turns out it was something even more sinister… Track and Field.
Max was wiped so I headed over by myself because the stadium is right around the corner. There weren’t any fights, at least to my knowledge, but Finland gave Sweden a whooping! The Swedes boarded their buses with their tails between their legs and made a bee line to the Viking Line ferry. No doubt the karaoke on board was weak that night!
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In my book, the Finnish women beat the Swedish women every time
Haha, the Finns aren’t always that lucky – and anyway it was the men who beat the Swedish men but women lost, so it was kind of 50-50!
As a Browns fan, I feel the Swede’s pain. We’d have tossed milk bones, at least.
No dog pound here. I couldn’t even tell what the mascot was supposed to be. Some big yellow… thing that would come out and hug the athletes.