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NOC Sprint Live Replay

The NOC Sprint Live Blog can be replayed below. The GPS tracking worked surprisingly well for a sprint, and with GPS Tracking on all runners, the NOC Sprint was excellent entertainment for the viewers. We had around 1800 viewers watching part of the Live Blog today – why not join ...

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Hubmann and Kauppi favourites for NOC Sprint

The Fantasy World Cup Teams show that Daniel Hubmann (SUI) and Minna Kauppi (FIN) – the long distance Gold medalists – are the peoples favourites to get new Gold medals when the Nordic Championships are finished with the Sprint distance today. Start for the men is 15:05 CET and 16:55 ...

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Fantasy WC: Skarholt on top

Anders Skarholt took home the first round of the Fantasy World Cup with the Team ‘Scary’, performing better as a manager than in the forest (Note! Preliminary results). Standing WoO Fantasy World Cup 2009 Full results WoO Fantasy World Cup race 1 Note that the results are preliminary, as the ...

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NOC Live Coverage: Replay the excitement

40 GPS Tracking screenshots of decisive moments, 900 simultaneous viewers at the most, and 260 comments. That’s the short summary of todays Live Blog coverage of the NOC Middle distance here at World of O. Peter Öberg and Helena Jansson took home two gold medals for Sweden in the end ...

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Fantasy WC: Gueorgiou and Kauppi favourites

Around 2400 runners have been picked for the 195 Fantasy WC teams ahead of todays first World Cup race of the season – and not surprisingly on a Middle Distance in Finland, the people’s favorites are Thierry Gueorgiou and Minna Kauppi. The Teams for the first World Cup race are ...

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WoO Fantasy World Cup: Set up your Team

Set up your own Team of Elite Runners, and follow them through this years World Cup, starting the following Tuesday June 9th. The WoO Fantasy World Cup is a ‘for-fun’ manager-type competition where you can set up a World Cup Team consisting of 10 runners (either men, women or a ...

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Ouch – big mistake!

Following up the post on the mistakes from the NOC Long distance, we could not just ignore this huge mistake from the last leg in todays NOC Relay. Norway 3 and Finland 2 completely lost control on the way to the second last control – getting far off to the ...

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GPS tracks: NOC Long Mistakes collected

Several mistakes of 5 minutes or more were made by the World Orienteering Elite at yesterdays Nordic Orienteering Championships over the Long distance in Salo, Finland. The GPS Tracking on all runners makes it possible to get a glimpse at how the best orienteers in the world tackle the Finnish ...

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Omaps.WorldofO.com

An early preview-version of the new Omaps.WorldofO.com-service is now available for everybody to test-drive. Note that this is an early preview version of Omaps.WorldofO.com, and the site may be unstable and be taken down without notice at any time. Test Omaps.WorldofO.com here About Omaps.WorldofO.com Omaps.WorldofO.com collects (large) thumbnails of recent ...

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Camera-crash for Hausken

The tabloid title is copied from the Norwegian Broadcaster TV2. With the Open Nordic Champs and the start of the World Cup season coming up on Saturday, Norwegian TV2 – the biggest Norwegian private Broadcaster – gets some focus on orienteering again. The title above is from their short preview ...

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