Comments on: BIG GPS & Splits Analysis of WOC 2015 Sprint Men

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:41:42 +0000

@Petter: Yannick had already done his mistake before this crash, but yes, I think he would have been more powerful in the last part without this crash.

By: Morten

Morten — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:38:19 +0000

Thanks for the great analysis, I initially thought after watching the race on TV that Michiels lost the race because he fell over the fence and was feeling sad for him, but I’m happy to see that it was because of a legitimate mistake in the alley on the split before. And the small mistakes by Daniel Hubmann also cost him the victory – so all in all good for the orientering part of the sprint.

I know that some teams had prepared for a challenging sprint and they simply did not get it today and could not compete on speed, so overall it was a bit weak on the orienteering but the winner was justified in being both a high caliber sprinter as well as a good routepicker.

By: Petter Thoresen

Petter Thoresen — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:38:15 +0000

From the TV – broadcast we can see that Y. Michels didn’t quite manage to jump the crossable fence to the 15th control, had a crash, and lost about 5sek laying on the ground and I guess much more due to that, for the rest of the course. Looked painful..

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:11:00 +0000

Yes, of course number 6 and not number 5, I corrected it in the text. And I agree; although it is a wrong route choice, it is probably not a planned routechoice but rather a mistake. I added a comment about that in the text as well.