Do you think the IOF-rules should be changed so that base station must be checked if written protest? There have been fierce discussion about the topic after the World Cup and EOC in Ski-Orienteering in Bulgaria/Romania. A team was disqualified from a Gold medal in the mixed relay, but the ...
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Dead running – separating method for the future?
Dead running is probably the separation method which has best potential for spreading runners without the course planner needing to make significant compromises (except for increased start interval). For all other known spreading methods, the course maker must change the course layout – i.e. the butterflies, phi-loops or the other ...
Read More »Portugal O-Meeting Day 3: Map and Results
Scott Fraser and Helena Jansson won Day 3 of Portugal O-Meeting on a day where not all of the top runners gave their best. In second spot Fabian Hertner and Simone Niggli. The Portuguese where very happy with 8th place for Portuguese Diogo Miguel on homeground. Daniel Hubmann mispunched on ...
Read More »Portugal O-Meeting: Gueorgiou and Niggli on top
[Updated with map] Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli are on top of the results list after the World Ranking event over middle distance in the big season opening in Portugal O-Meeting 2010. At yesterday’s long distance (which was not a World Ranking event) Daniel Hubmann and Helena Jansson were on ...
Read More »StreetView + Orienteering Map = Cool!
Coupling Google StreetView with an orienteering map in split view turned out pretty cool. You can click any point on the orienteering map for which there is StreetView available, and see how it looks in real life. The other way around, you can use your cursor keys or mouse and ...
Read More »Portugal O-Meeting: International Season Opening
Daniel Hubmann, Thierry Gueorgiou, Emil Wingstedt, Valentin Novikov, Anders Nordberg, Carl Waaler Kaas, Mikhail Mamleev, Olav Lundanes, Tero Föhr, Fabian Hertner, Philippe Adamski, Baptiste Rollier, Francois Gonon, Holger Hott, Jan Prochazka, Graham Gristwood, Mats Haldin. This could have been the result list in a World Cup race, but it is ...
Read More »3 Minutes Start Interval for WOC Long!
Both for the WOC Final and for the WOC Qualification over the Long distance the start interval is increased from 2 minutes till 3 minutes, according to reports from the IOF meetings in Helsinki last week. This is very good news for the work for fairness in orienteering, as increased ...
Read More »Top O-Travel Picks: April 2010
Prague Easter with technical orienteering in sandstone terrain, Postas Cup with technical sand dune terrain, the traditional JK Trophy in Great Britain, and several other interesting World Ranking events. Those are some of the highlights of the international fixtures list for April 2010. Read on to see a list of ...
Read More »Top O-Travel Picks: March 2010
March is another month in which typically athletes from Northern Europe travel to Southern Europe to be able to combine a training camp with a few orienteering races. However, in March you don’t have to travel that far south to get good conditions in a normal winter, and therefore we ...
Read More »Separating runners in Orienteering: Part III
It is time to dig into the extensive report on separating runners in orienteering again. This time we take a look at the different separating methods discussed in the report – and their applicability to a long distance race with a high quality start field. We also take a look ...
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