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Still Scary in Fantasy World Cup

Thierry Gueorgiou and Helena Jansson got a DNF and DNS respectively in World Cup race number 4 of the season at O-festivalen in Oslo, Norway. Thus many managers lost two of the runners in their team, and thus only had a team of 8 runners. Manager Magne Dæhlie with the ...

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Kauppi and Hubmann favourites – Live from 14:30 CET

World Cup, O-festivalen: Daniel Hubmann has 1.26 to catch on Peter Öberg and Carl Waaler Kaas, but is still the favourite of the WoO Fantasy World Cup managers in the mens class when the World Cup continues with a long distance chasing start at O-festivalen in Oslo today. For the ...

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Fantasy WC: Scary back on top

The Scary Team with Anders Skarholt (pictured from todays race) as manager took back the lead in the Fantasy World Cup after todays 3rd World Cup race of the season. Skarholt finished 16th in the real World Cup race today, and would have increased his lead in the Fantasy World ...

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WC Oslo: Kauppi, Waaler Kaas and Öberg

After a dramatic race, Carl Waaler Kaas and Peter Öberg and shared the victory in todays World Cup Middle distance in the mens class. Minna Kauppi was again the best woman – winning ahead of Marianne Andersen. Tricky Norwegian terrain The terrain north of Oslo proved to be tricky – ...

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Live TV Coverage for World Cup Oslo

International viewers WILL be able to view the excellent webTV-coverage promised from the the World Cup races in Norway June 26th and 27th. For some time it was unclear if the coverage would be available outside Norway. There will be a separate link for international viewers and a separate link ...

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Fantasy WC: Remember to Set Up Your Team

Tomorrow on Friday June 26th the third World Cup race of the season is held in Oslo, Norway – The Norwegian O-Festival. Now is the time to remember to set up your Fantasy World Cup Team ahead of the race. The WoO Fantasy World Cup is a ‘for-fun’ manager-type competition ...

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– A group of dizzy chickens around Simone

Did influence from other runners cost Simone Niggli a top position in NOC Middle? A detailed analysis of grouping in the Nordic Championships shows that even if there were a lot of packs – especially in the Middle – the runners getting the top positions did not gain a lot ...

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Full Jukola GPS Tracking now available

A lot happened in the forest among the top teams – now you can replay GPS Tracking from all legs in both Jukola and Venla relays on the GPSseuranta website, and understand more about how the two relays developed. Already early on the first leg KOK had some trouble (see ...

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What A Fantastic Orienteering Thriller!

This route choice to the third last control – and Hubmanns higher speed – decided the Jukola relay after a long night of running and orienteering. What looked like an easy victory for Halden after Anders Nordbergs fantastic 3rd leg, turned into a thriller on the last leg with Thierry ...

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Fantasy WC: Results updated

As Wingstedt and the others who got disqualified in the NOC Sprint (+ 12th/13th/14th in the Qual) also got World Cup points, Fantasy WC results have now been updated according to the official results which got available at the IOF site today. Bushmen are still in top with the 0.5 ...

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