Comments on: World Cup Final 2024: All You Need To Know http://news.worldofo.com/2024/09/25/world-cup-final-2024-all-you-need-to-know/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Andy http://news.worldofo.com/2024/09/25/world-cup-final-2024-all-you-need-to-know/#comment-135693 Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:58:40 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=20351#comment-135693 Some reflections about this last world cup for the season and EOC in Hungary earlier – to estimate winning times seems to have become a complicated rocket science with very low resolution. And while I have bigger understanding for the way too long winning times at EOC – more unpredictable terrain, fewer athletes just below the ones actually competing for Hungary for testing, and extremely hot weather conditions, I have very hard to understand the miscalculations during these world cup final races.

Long men: 8 minutes below estimated winning time, with 20 (!) men beating estimated winning time.
Long women: 15 minutes (!) below estimated winning time, with 14 (!) women beating estimated winning time.
Middle men: 3 minutes below estimated winning time, with 16 (!) men beating estimated winning time.
Middle women: 3,5 minutes below estimated winning time, with 14 (!) men beating estimated winning time.

There must have been hundreds of orienteering races in similar terrain in this area just in the last few years, Finland has a lot of competent runners just below the level of the national team to try the courses out, and no extreme weather conditions.
It’s just a mystery to me, the miscalculations…

And a question about todays race – do you really have to supply drinks during a middle distance around 5 km in 8 degrees temperature? And if so, do you really have to serve it at a control, with 4 people standing up around a big table, with one of them wearing a signal red coat that is spotted hundred meters from the actual control point?

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