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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the mobile version of the Jukola LiveBlog you can stay connected and share your thoughts even from the Jukola venue in Finland. The success from 10Mila, NOC Middle and NOC Sprint is continued on Jukola with a LiveBlog at WorldofO.com. Again we will do our best to provide you ...

The Bushmen Team with Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen as manager has taken the lead in the Fantasy World Cup after this years seconds World Cup race – the NOC Sprint in Salo, Finland. Anders Skarholt’s Scary-team dropped three places, and is now in fourth place – 13 points down on Bushmen. ...

Jukola is only one day away – and it is time to make the last Jukola preparations. There are old maps of the area to be studied, map samples of the new map, and lots of Jukola trainings made by other runners which may be relevant. Below I’ve collected some ...

A small drama involving Audun Weltzien after the NOC Sprint Finals yesterday: As everybody could see during the GPS-tracking (see screenshot above – full tracking here), Weltzien ran through a hedge marked with ‘Impassable vegetation’ between controls 6 and 7. Thus he was disqualified by the organizers. However, a protest ...

Todays NOC Sprint did not have a lot of route choice alternatives – the most important thing was to make a quick decision for each leg – and avoid small mistakes. For the longer legs, mostly the alternatives where similar in time. Below you see the route choice giving the ...