World of O News
Now for the list of the 25 most read stories (of the total 6614 stories) at World of O in 2006 – regardless of site.
| 1. | Live TV with 14 cameras & micro – 2006-11-20 The plans for the TV coverage for the World Cup race in Hovden during O-festivalen 2007 were gigantic, when considering that this is an orienteering event. Norway’s largest commercial TV channel, TV2, had really ambitious plans for the race at Hovden. The plan was to spend 200.000 euros – three times the amount spent for […]Published at World of O |
| 2. | 2 x Czech Champions with impressive runs – 2006-08-16 Michal Smola and Dana Brozkova made two impressive runs, and both won the long distance in the World University Championships today with large margins. For Smola, it was the second WUOC victory in a row – he was defending champion from Plzen 2004. A victory in the WUOC tasted good for Smola, after being just outside the medals in the long distance at WOC in Denmark less than two weeks ago. Brozkova won the bronze medal at the long distance in Denmark, and showed here in Plesivec that she has… Published at World of O |
| 3. | World-Cup finals on target… – 2006-09-28 In the beginning of September, I signed for a very good contract with the police-force. I will represent the “Gendarmerie française” during the major military competitions (World and French championships). The deal is really interesting since I got a monthly salary and still can go on with my studies during that period (one year contract, repeatable 5 times). I have no military obligation like staying at the garrison house or military instruction.My first military competition will be the World… Published at Thierry Gueorgiou |
| 4. | Technical orienteering and fantastic nature – 2006-11-03 That was what I was looking for this summer when I had a few weeks of extra vacation due to a job change. Read on to see maps and pictures from where I decided to go after a long search on the Internet. It gave me 20 top orienteering races and in addition mountain hikes+runs […]Published at World of O |
| 5. | Analysis of Micro-O at Norwegian Champs Middle – 2006-08-28 Some like Micro-O – some not. Micro-O is – however – not dead, even No training – but important for outcome |
| 6. | WC: One, two, three, many – 2006-10-06 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 general feeling is that almost […]Published at World of O |
| 7. | Gold for Switzerland and Great Britain at WUOC relay … – 2006-08-19 … but the Slovakian home team winning silver medals seemed Tight fight on the last leg |
| 8. | WC Final: Fantastic orienteering and nature Р2006-09-28 Just take a look at the pictures, the sattelite pictures and the maps Рthey speak for themselves: The next week will be a fantastic one for all those lucky enough to be running the World Cup Final in France. The venues for the competitions are close to the city Clermont-Ferrand and the famous volcano Puy-de-D̫in Massif Central in south-central France. Who hasn`t seen the famous picture from Puy-de-D̫by Yann Arthus Bertrand? Published at World of O |
| 9. | Introducing: World of O Calendar – 2006-11-03 News Release: Just in time for the planning of your next summer holiday, World of O launches the World of O Calendar – an international orienteering event calendar giving you something extra. In addition to all standard event calendar features, location based searches are possible by clicking on a map to define a search point. […]Published at World of O |
| 10. | Krepsta and Hagman winners at the WUOC middle distance – 2006-08-17 Simonas Krepsta and Line Hagman won the middle distance at the World University Championships in Slovakia today. Whereas he Lithuanian Krepsta – who some will remember as the winner of one of the Elitserien races this spring – did a magnificent run, and had nearly 2 minutes margin down to French Philippe Adamski in second spot and Norwegian Stig Alvestad in third spot – the race in the women class was much tigher. The Norwegian Line Hagman – won only 13 seconds before Russian Larisa Stanche… Published at World of O |
| 11. | Brozkova and Østerbø at WUOC sprint – 2006-08-18 Øystein Kvaal Østerbø and Dana Brozkova won the gold medals in todays city-sprint in the old Charming city center |
| 12. | Gold for Kristiansand and Bækkelaget in NM Relay – 2006-08-27 Holger Hott Johansen decided a tight relay for Kristiansand OK after fighting against Wings Øystein Kvaal Østerbø during most of the last leg. This was KOKs third relay gold medal in a row. Nydalen took home bronze medals after a though fight with NTNUI. Halden and Bækkelaget had to travel home without medals in the mens class in this years Norwegian Champs relay – Bækkelaget partly due to significant losses at the first leg. In the womens class, Anne Margre… Published at World of O |
| 13. | Map from WMOC in Brasil – 2006-11-09 … here is one of the training maps from the WMOC in Brasil while waiting for the maps from yesterdays middle distance and todays long distance. [From I-OL forum – training map of Clemens Roos]. Congratulations and Tatiana Riabkina og Andrey Khramov for victories at yesterdays middle distance. See also Pictures from the training camp at […]Published at World of O |
| 14. | WoO Maps: Maps pouring in – 2006-12-22 The last weeks, maps from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Israel (see map sample to the right), Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden have been added to World of O – in addition to addition of map samples from some other countries. Why don’t you use some of the quiet Christmas time to enter maps into World […]Published at World of O |
| 15. | Orient’Show’s first experience – 2006-11-26 After the Military World Championships, where I had the results which corresponded to my shape and motivation after a loooong season, I ran the last competition of the 2006 season near Lille this week-end (very northern part of France). Maybe it is better to call this competition the first one of the next season, because I didn’t train much since the CISM, and will start again the serious training in a couple of days.This competition was the first Orient’show organized in France and also my fi… Published at Thierry Gueorgiou |
| 16. | WorldofO GEO: Ready for beta-testing – 2006-10-25 With WorldofO GEO you can find out if there are any orienteering maps close to where you are, just by clicking on a map. This is what I have wanted since I started using the Internet more than 10 years ago – and now I am finally seeing it getting closer to fulfillment. I am […]Published at World of O |
| 17. | To JWOC with Catching Features – 2006-11-10 There is a very interesting project going on among some junior orienteers preparing for the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia next summer. Basically, they plan to Redraw some of the relevant maps for JWOC available on the official JWOC site in OCAD |
| 18. | Lieutenant Gueorgiou… – 2006-09-18 In the beginning of September, I signed for a very good contract with the police-force. I will represent the “Gendarmerie française” during the major military competitions (World and French championships). The deal is really interesting since I got a monthly salary and still can go on with my studies during that period (one year contract, repeatable 5 times). I have no military obligation like staying at the garrison house or military instruction.My first military competition will be the World… Published at Thierry Gueorgiou |
| 19. | Air France crash… – 2006-08-04 …on the 4th control of today’s middle distance final. My race started quite well and I was controlling my orienteering also well. But I took the wrong decision when I was “lost” in the slope of the 4th control. I was looking for the flatter area very close to the control, but I never saw that one and decided to run down. For the first time since 2003, I did a severe mistake in a big championship at middle distance. C’est la vie!Then, my race was over, I tried anyway “to survive” and to finish … Published at Thierry Gueorgiou |
| 20. | Finnish Championships turned to be a medal mess – 2006-09-24 Published at Pasi Ikonen |
| 21. | Kun et orienteringsløb – 2006-08-09 VM i nedtur Published at Chris Terkelsen |
| 22. | Elitserie og værste Jukola nogensinde!!! – 2006-06-19 Torsdag løb jeg Elitserien i Stockholm, det blev 6. plads trods skade. Dette gjorde at jeg ikke kunne løbe Jukola i år også, i tillæg fik nogen af os også en meget lang hjemrejse… Published at Mikkel Lund |
| 23. | Life goes on… – 2006-08-21 With the disappointment of my WOC results, I was down in the dumps. It will surely take couple of months to forget these unpleasant memories. At the moment, I can see only one really positive point of this WOC week: Thanks to HH. Johansen, it will be very easy to find the motivation for tough trainings this winter. I will never never forget my feelings when I crossed the celebrating Norwegian in the run in. I am hungry again. Published at Thierry Gueorgiou |
| 24. | Game over…. – 2006-09-18 Published at Jørgen Rostrup |
| 25. | Goodbye Østmarka, hello Halden – 2006-10-13 Efter 4 år i Østmarka blev det tid til å takke for meg. Dette selvom mit hjerte hadde landet bra i Romeriksklubben. Jeg har hatt en utrolig bra tid i Østmarka og det takker jeg alle i Østmarka for. Både løpere, styret, TU og medlemmer har støttet meg og det er jeg utrolig taknemlig for. Jeg ønsker alle lykke til i fremtiden og håper det beste for alle. Når dette er sagt gleder jeg meg utroligt mye til å starte i Halden. Selvom det er en klubb som er langt på vei, er jeg sikker på, at jeg har… Published at O-Coach Kenneth Buch |
