Like two berries: Kimi & Harri Olli

by - 2/22/2009 10:07:00 p.m.


They have nowadays given fancy names to people's different anxieties. Kimi Räikkönen and Harri Olli (ski jumper) are like two berries. They have both stopped drinking (?) and they have a mutual anxiety called media fobia.

They wondered at the President's party in 2007 where the most expected guest is hiding. Kimi and Jenni had posed for the camera and given a few interviews but then Kimi disappeared.

Answer: he was in the toilet downstairs texting with his mobile phone until he sneaked out of the flash lights into the night. Luckily his tuxedo had enough room for the mobile phone.

In Levi world cup he didn't sit in the audience, not even in the audience where the Prime Minister and his new girlfriend sat - instead he drove up and down the slope in a cabin.

Always when you finally get Kimi hunted in front of the camera the sight is always the same. He looks like a scared deer in front of the car's lights on an empty forest road.

The reports from the wet evenings spent on the Iceman-boat tell a completely different story about Kimi. He is a social, open and funny host. Even in the upper class of Finnish-Swedish circles Kimi is slowly turning from a jerk into a good guy. One would assume that he would want to give the same picture to the big audience also.

Well, Kimi isn't alone with his disease. Another young Finnish sportsman who gets a lot of attention has the same symptoms.

He is ski jumper Harri Olli, who jumps in the snow and gives the tv-cameras a snow cleaning when winning the competition but informs a few days later to the journalist that his head is about to explode when asked a few questions.

Ilta-Sanomat 21.2.2009

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