World Games Middle: Live from 06:30 CET

Saturday July 18th at 06:30 CET the Orienteering in World Games 2009 Middle distance starts – we start the LiveBlog at 07:30 CET – when Minna Kauppi heads into the forest. There is Live video streaming, GPS tracking and online results – so expect a nice Saturday morning from the World Games.The LiveBlog will again mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers.

Event information

• First start 06:32 CET for women – Live results here
• First start 08:02 CET for men – Live results here
• Startlist is available here
• Video streaming available here
• Tracking available here
• World Games Orienteering webpage
• Maps and results from the World Games Sprint

Stories about World Games to check out

• World of O: ‘World Games: Map and results’ Minna Kauppi and Andrey Khramov took the victories in the World Games sprint today. Kauppi took a clear victory ahead of Hanny Allston and Elise Egseth – whereas Khramov had a hard fight with Daniel Hubmann, finishing off only a second ahead of Hubmann. Tero Föhr took the mens Bronze medal. Map men Map women Results Results available from the World Games Orienteering page …
• Øystein Kvaal Østerbø: ‘World Games Sprint’ Today the World Games Sprint was arranges in the Museum of Arts in Kaohsiung south on Taiwan. I did a good race and came 4th, 3 seconds behind Tero Föhr and the bronze medal. Andrey Khramov won only 1 second in front of Daniel Hubmann. Results -In the Women’s class Elise Egseth did a great race and won the bronze medal. Minna Kauppi won ahead of Hanny Allston.IOF’s World Games page – where you …
• Peter Öberg: ‘Bra lopp på WG sprinten’ Det var en fin tävling med bra banor och terräng under dagens sprinttävling. Vädret var väldigt fint med drygt 30 grader och hög luftfuktighet. Jag gjorde ett mycket bra lopp och slutade på en fin 7e plats. Andrey Khramov vann sekunden före Daniel Hubmann. torsdag 16/07 Utsålt på WG Sprinten och jag är redo Nu är vi på plats i Taiwan för stundande World Games. Det är ett väldigt spännande och a …
• Linnea Gustafsson: ‘Kaoshiung fran sin basta sida’ Resan fran Nynas till Kaohsiung tog dryga dygnet, men jag sov bra pa flyget sa det var inga storre problem nar vi landade i formiddags Taiwanesisk tid. Vi blev glatt mottagna av ett gang sma taiwaneser som skramlade i marakkas och tamburiner till var ara, somliga tyckte det var sa kul att de smet in en extra gang i ankomsthallen och kom ut igen. Taiwaneserna har tagit World Games pa allra storst …
• Orienteering.is: ‘Khramov and Kauppi – World Games` best sprinters’ Andrey Khramov from Russia and Minna Kauppi from Finland took the first gold medals in this years World Games in Taiwan. …
• International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Kauppi and Khramov sprint winners – now photos!’ The sprint races at The World Games were exciting to the very end. In the men's race, reigning sprint world champion Andrey Khramov beat the long distance world champion Daniel Hubmann by a mere second. …
• Rahel Friederich: ‘ Keine WM in Ungarn – dafür World Games in Taiwan! ‘ Mit den Rängen 4, 5, 10 und 7 in den WM Selektionsläufen von Anfangs Juli konnte ich mich knapp nicht für die WM in Ungarn empfehlen. Nach meinen Resultaten im Frühling und vor allem den guten Erfahrungen im Ungarn Trainingslager im April ist dies für mich eine grosse Enttäuschung. Ich wäre sehr gerne nach Ungarn gereist. Da …
• Andreas Rüedlinger: ‘World Games opening ceremony’ The World Games are declared open! After a spectacular show in the new built Main Stadium (40.000 spect.) in Kaohsiung, we are now ready for the first competition, the Sprint race today. Here are some impressions from the opening ceremony… …
• Graham Gristwood: ‘Sat at home watching the World Games’ Not where I want to be really – I would much rather be in Chinese Taipei with the Great Britain team racing round parks and museum gardens. After my test race victories, I took a few easy days, did a little mapping work etc, but somewhere along the line I picked up another cold. The tough weekend combined with some stressful events during the week must have lowered my immune system enough so that …
• OKansas – daily thoughts about O: ‘Sleeping through World Games???’ Im thinking about getting up at 1 a.m. to follow the live coverage of the World Games Orienteering (if Ive got my time zones correct, thats when the races start). Thinking about it, but probably wont actually drag myself out of bed and fire up the computer.WorldofO.com has a page devoted to the race (with links to the streaming video) here.Back to okansas.blogspot.com. …
• International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Orienteering – a spectator sport’ Åke Jacobson, President of the IOF, opened the orienteering part of The World Games in Kaoshiung. He spoke about a sport that has taken new steps as a stadium and spectator sport. …
• Kristiansand OK Elite: ‘Sølv til Daniel i World Games’ For tiden pÃ¥gÃ¥r World Games i Taiwan, og nok en gang viste Daniel Hubmann at han er en av verdens beste sprintere. A. Khramov vant gullet snaue to sekunder foran Daniel, som hadde over halvminuttet til Tero Føhr pÃ¥ bronseplassen.Daniel Ã¥pnet løpet sterkt og hadde 10 sekunders ledelse pÃ¥ Khramov pÃ¥ 1. meldepost. Men til slutt ble altsÃ¥ Khramov den sterkeste denne gangen.De norske guttene …
• OPN.no: ‘BRONSE til Elise Egseth’ Elise Egseth løp inn til en overbevisende bronsemedalje da World Games innledet med sprint i Taiwan fredag formiddag. OgsÃ¥ de norske herrene gjorde sine saker bra. …

LiveBlog

Below you find the LiveBlog. As there is both Live video streaming and TracTrac available, the LiveBlog will mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers.