Finland took it all in todays very exciting WC relay in France. The finnish second team won the womens class after a magnificent run by Bodil Holmström on the last leg. Minna Kauppi made it a double for Finland by beating Simone Niggli in a tight fight at the last ...
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WC: Follow relay live from 0930
After 30 minutes of running, Finland 2 is in the lead in the womens class before France 2, whereas France 2 has taken the lead in the mens class after 10 minutes of running before Norway 2. This is going to be a very interesting relay in this very technical ...
Read More »Graphical view of WC middle final splits
Minna Kauppi had a clear lead – but lost it all. Valentin Novikov had the middle distance king on his knees – but blew it in the end. Niggli did two large mistakes of more than 2 and 3 minutes, respectively, which took away her victory chances. Even Thierry G. ...
Read More »The king is back!
The king of the middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – is back after taking a break at the WOC in Denmark. He has done three extremely good races, and showed that nobody can beat him in this technical terrain – neither on the sprint, the long distance, or on his ...
Read More »Finally for Andersen!
Marianne Andersen took her first World Cup victory ever after winning todays very technical World Cup final over the middle distance. Overall World Cup victory went to Simone Niggli after a 9th position today. – I have done some small mistakes several places and have had some bad routechoices – ...
Read More »Excitement building up
As Simone Niggle is just running out into the forest now at 12:02, the early starting swede Annika Billstam is in the lead in the womens class, and the norwegian Carl Waaler Kaas (picture) is in the lead in the mens class. Speaker sound and online results work perfectly – ...
Read More »WC: Middle Final Live from 10.00
At 10.01 Csaba Gösswein will start the show at the World Cup Final in France – at 13.15 this years overall World Cup is decided. At 10.21 Ona Rafols heads out into the forest as the first woman. This is going to be a very exciting middle distance, where everything ...
Read More »WC: One, two, three, many
Read on to see a full analysis of who was running together on yesterdays long distance in the World Cup finals in France. There has been lots of talking about this matter at discussion groups on the internet and elsewhere – both before and after the competition – and the ...
Read More »WC: Map Long Distance
Pasi Ikonen has put the map from todays long distance on his homepage as the first (as I am aware of – thanks to Finn Birk Eriksen). On Pasis homepage, you can also see how his pulse varied during the competition, and a picture of the best runners in todays ...
Read More »6 can win the overall WC
Even if Thierry Gueorgious performance today was fantastic, and he is the big favourite for winning the overall World Cup, there are still 6 runners from 6 different nations who can take home the overall World Cup in the mens class. And as we saw today from Daniel Hubmann and ...
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