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12 Sports Games Lahti is an internationally renowned winter sports city. Lahti Sports Centre is one of world's best winter sports centres, and has already played host to the ski world championships six times running. The annual World Cup event, known as the Lahti Ski Games, has been organised in the city since 1923. The Lahti Ski Games remain one of the winter’s biggest public festivals, attracting tens of thousands of spectators from near and far. Winter Lake Vesijärvi covered in ice. Ski-jumping slopes in Lahti Sports Centre. LEISURE The Lahti region enjoys a true winter deep in snow. Salpausselkä ridge offers a varied landscape where opportunities for winter sports abound. Wintry Lake From the moment ice forms on Lake Vesijärvi, the lake transforms into an active winter sports arena. Weather permitting, a ski track and skating route are maintained on the ice, leading from Lahti harbour to the ski resort of Messilä. On a sunny late winter’s day you might even meet snowmobiles, hang gliders and dogsleds out on the ice. And if you need a break from all that fresh winter’s air, you can stop for a snack in one of the coffee houses which line the harbour front.
Cross Country and Downhill Skiing The beautiful landscape and varied terrain of Salpausselkä is criss-crossed by hundreds of kilometres of ski tracks each winter. Ski tracks lead from Lahti sports centre to nearby Hollola, home to Messilä, Southern Finland's largest winter sports centre. Messilä boasts nine slopes for downhill skiing, snowboarding, freestyle, or telemark. One of the slopes is reserved for Lake Vesijärvi. snowboarders. Each year, thousands of Finns and foreign visitors participate in the Finlandia Ski marathon, the largest mass ski event in Finland. 13
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