World of O News
There has not been much news about South Africa here at World of O. However, after the launch of the WoO Calendar last week, a few South African events have been added to the calendar, and this is definitely worth a news story. I also got a nice e-mail from Alvin Ward situated in Cape Town, South Africa.
Small sport
Alvin says that orienteering is still a very small sport in South Africa – and essentially there are only clubs in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The South African event calendar for 2007 will be released in a few weeks time, but for now some of the remaining events for 2006 have been added. – We only have about 30 events a year, but if we could add our events to the calendar as the information becomes available, we might even be able to encourage more people to come to our events, one day, Alvin continues. So expect to see many South African events in the WoO calendar in the time to come – just now there are already 8 South African events inserted (see all South African events in the WoO calendar here).
Tokai East Park Event
Taking a look at the satellite pictures (map details are sparse for South Africa in Google maps, so use Satellite images) for Tokai East Park Event, the scenery sure looks nice, as you can see here:
And a map sample:
And here is a detailed satellite picture from the event area of another south african event – the BushTrails Magaliesburg:
Check it out
A local event in South Africa is probably not what you want to spend a lot of money for if you are traveling from Norway or somewhere else in northern Europe, but just for the fun of it I wanted to check what it would cost me to travel there for the event next weekend. I clicked to find major airports close to the event, and found one just 19 kilometers from the event site – the Cape Town International. Going on to a flight search, here is what I found:
OK – a bit to expensive for me just this week;)
Popular for training camps
South Africa is also a popular place to go for a training camp for top orienteers from European countries – so the addition of South African events in the WoO Calendar might get somebody from far away to consider visiting a local event in South Africa as well. In Capestorm O-Ringen in march this year, there were 125 participants from 11 countries – including the finnish national team and a few runners from Halden SK. Earlier for example Anders Nordberg and Jonn Are Myhren have been training in this area as well (see OPN article – link below).
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