Comments on: WOC Sprint GPS Analysis: Gold for Boström and Niggli! http://news.worldofo.com/2013/07/08/woc-sprint-gold-for-bostrom-and-niggli/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Jan Kocbach http://news.worldofo.com/2013/07/08/woc-sprint-gold-for-bostrom-and-niggli/#comment-102170 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:26:56 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6453#comment-102170 Mikhail, I had expected, purely based on the World Cup maps from NORT last year (which I studied because I considered NORT 2012 in Kajaani/Vuokatti a “WOC test event”), that there would be a lot of artificial boundaries in this year’s WOC sprint. This material I guess should be a natural part of the preparations for the WOC sprint? I found these maps on the Internet.

Based partly on this we also used quite extensively artificial boundaries in our training camp at Bergen Sprint Camp this winter (were Boström also was present and training this ability :)

]]> By: Vinogradov Mikhail http://news.worldofo.com/2013/07/08/woc-sprint-gold-for-bostrom-and-niggli/#comment-102163 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:19:33 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6453#comment-102163 Almost all nations (except Scandinavians and Swiss) dont have resources to participate on the regular base in Euromeetings or World Cup Events or Finnish competitions. Main source of information for us is in WOC bulletins and map samples. Take a look:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EcCDGsnrexs/UdzRy16Kk1I/AAAAAAAAAkI/TJa5yCVAKoM/s1600/WOC+map+saple.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dRoWNsv8kgQ/UdzSH0-cGfI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/68-NxCXZHWM/s1600/True+competition+situation.gif

Do you see differences??

I am Halden SK main coach in 2011 and 2012, Russian National coach from 2009. I have never visited forbidden areas, I always use open sources of information (bulletins, map samples and official training maps). According to all this information for me it is not clear that my runners have to be ready to fences labyrinths without any forest at all. For Mårten it was obviously that (citation): “I know how to tackle the trickiest labyrinths in full speed”

I dont blame any one, I dont say that source of this extra information of Mårten is WOC-organizers. I just say about facts.

In my opinion, even if you are living in South Africa of Brasil, you have to get correct relevant information from WOC-organizers IN ADVANCE (then you have a chance to develop successful training program, design relevant WOC-test races and plan relevant training camps).

]]> By: Jone http://news.worldofo.com/2013/07/08/woc-sprint-gold-for-bostrom-and-niggli/#comment-102162 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:39:13 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6453#comment-102162 I wanted mainly to emphasize that your accusations are quite severe – especially if you are one the the coaches – if you say that finnish team had received more information about the terrain from the organizers. (And do you think that the information was given only to Boström?)

I think that it was just normal “homeground advantage” – the same as the Swiss had last year.

Regarding official preliminary information, I also expected more forest – maybe 1/3 of the course. But I was also sure that there will be some new fences because they have used them in Finland in many other sprints. And I’m not in any way involved in Finnish national team or WOC organizers.

]]> By: Vinogradov Mikhail http://news.worldofo.com/2013/07/08/woc-sprint-gold-for-bostrom-and-niggli/#comment-102157 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:37:48 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=6453#comment-102157 Courses were excellent. Thats true!

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