The overall World Cup will be decided in Switzerland this weekend. Excellent live coverage with GPS-tracking, web-TV (Sunday) and live results is promised . With the fight for the title still open in both the mens and womens class, everything is set for a great weekend for orienteering enthusiasts. Saturday ...

More than 100 of the participants in the World Cup races in Liberec last weekend signed a petition against the suggested WOC in the future program. The petition is very clear on the opinion of the runners. – We do not like the Council’s proposal on the WOC program, and ...

Marc Lauenstein took a surprise victory for Switzerland and Minna Kauppi is finally back on the top with another World Cup victory. The long distance chasing start in Liberec was a tough one – with more than 1:40 running time in the mens class and 80 minutes in the women’s ...

Pasi Ikonen and Dana Brozkova won the tight World Cup races over middle distance in Liberec, Czech Republic today. Ikonen – the WOC middle distance champion of 2001 – beat this year WOC middle distance champion Thierry Guergiou with 33 seconds. In the women’s class Minna Kauppi did her best ...

Excellent live coverage with hours of streamed webTV & GPS-tracking is promised for the third World Cup round of the season which is organized in Liberec, Czech Republic this weekend. The program consists of a middle distance race on Saturday and a long distance race with chasing start on Sunday. ...

Olav Lundanes started it with a short Tweet – now he is back with a long explanation about his views about the future WOC program. – Since I was the one that picked up the discussion I should come with my opinion, Lundanes writes in a comment to the article ...

Olav Lundanes is not happy to be on the front page of  IOF’s latest update on the WOC in the future project – the Power Point presentation which was presented at the IOF Presidents Conference in France in August this year. On his Twitter-account Lundanes Tweets “Looks like I am supporting ...

Lars Skjeset won the Norwegian Championships middle distance with only 1 small second ahead of Carl Waaler Kaas. Reading the blog post of Carl Waaler Kaas about the race prompted me to make a quick comparison between the two runners. Here is part of what Carl Waaler Kaas writes in ...

Still a long way to go until Christmas – but there were so nice, long routechoice legs at today’s Swedish Champs long distance that we make an early start this year – 104 days ahead of December 1st. The leg in question is the leg from control number 10 to ...

Q: Do you ever think of going back to using compass? Ikonen: I don’t think so. Going back in this issue would be… yeah, bad development. Ikonen – who took silver at this years World Champs long distance in France – 10 years after his previous individual WOC medal – ...