Comments on: EOC 2022: All You Need To Know

By: Joan Grenouille

Joan Grenouille — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:53:49 +0000

Exciting relays – but what was the idea behind the biased GHI forking in the women’s course? I have always thought that there should be no forking at all in the last loop of the final leg.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 18:52:07 +0000

Yes, very puzzling indeed with the river crossing route choices in this race. And I’m even more confused after hearing winner Martin Regborn telling about the info the runners got beforehand, according to him – that in some places the river might be sealed off with plastic tape, where the river might be too deep / dangerous to cross, without being marked exactly where that would be on the map…
So he ran around the whole forbidden area to the right on the 6-7 leg, to avoid winding up in such a lottery, losing quite some time on that leg. And followed up with another safe choice on 15-16, losing time there as well.
Also hard to understand how the course setters thought about tempting the runners with a left route choice on 6-7 – hardly no one did, and those who fell for that lost loads of time…

By: Joan Grenouille

Joan Grenouille — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:51:28 +0000

Wow, this is real orienteering – for the first time at an international Elite race in 2022?

But what is the idea behind the river-routechoice challenges in the Long distance? There appear to be three options: (i) to cross the river swimming, (ii) to go around losing time, (iii) to approach the river and then return losing even more time.

By: Lars Lindstrøm

Lars Lindstrøm — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:21:44 +0000

Jørgen >> One could argue the first (and third) WOC sprint were not Urban events :-)