The Sport Institute is the official training center of the Finnish Olympic Committee. Athletes in ice hockey, figure skating, swimming, basketball, volleyball, wrestling, weight lifting, shooting, and track and field hone their skills at the 80-year-old complex, located in the middle of a forest. The Sport Institute also enrolls 300 students, including 120 at the college and university level. Courses taught in English include organizing and marketing outdoor sports, exercise physiology and coaching, and Finnish winter sports (ice hockey, skiing, and skating). Vierumäki is an hour’s drive from Helsinki and is surrounded by thousands of acres of unspoiled wilderness.