The strong feelings involved – for both winners and losers – is what makes sports interesting. Read on for some selected moments from WOC 2013 – both the winners in pictures and the disappointments in the athletes own words. All photos from WOC 2013 are posted on the World of ...

Norway won gold in the women’s relay after a great team performance – Heidi Bagstevold, Mari Fasting and Anne Margrethe Hausken running steadily from start until finish while the other teams had problems with the tricky and strongly forked courses. A clear silver medal went to Finland with Minna Kauppi ...

Dmitriy Tsvetkov decided a very tight and exciting WOC relay for Russia on the last leg – orienteering and running away from Sweden’s Gustav Bergman and the big surprise of the day: Denys Shcherbakov for Ukraine. Oleksandr Kratov brought Ukraine into the lead after the second leg – sending young ...

A lot to learn from these mistakes – unfortunately a bit late for the competitors here in Finland. Now looking forward to the relay! The full gallery is posted here: Gallery: Top 160 mistakes from WOC Middle Final Follow the WOC relay live Links to live services: Online results, GPS-tracking, Live TV payment. ...

Simone Niggli wins Gold also on Middle after deciding a tricky middle distance for herself . Niggli started with a mistake on the first control – being in 34th place of the 45 starters when she found the flag – but took over the lead after a fantastic long leg ...

Leonid Novikov surprised everybody – including himself – by winning the World Champions middle distance in Vuokatti, Finland today. Thierry Gueorgiou finished second after a one-minute mistake at control which he never managed to fully catch up. Sweden’s Gustav Bergman became third. Below you see the mistake of Gueorigou at ...

Live from 12:10 CET (men) and 14:05 CET (women). Who are the favourites to take the WOC Middle title in this year’s WOC in Finland? The technical terrain (see some examples from the very tricky middle distance qualification above) makes the race more open in the women’s class – and ...

“One of the trickiest WOC qualification races ever” was a phrase repeated several times in the arena after today’s WOC middle distance qualification. In one of the women heats you could be nearly 20 minutes behind the winner, and still qualify for the final. The day brought two heat winners ...

A very comprehensive analysis has been made of the women’s race in WOC 2013 long distance. This analysis for the men’s race is not as thorough – partly because the route choice challenges worked a lot better in the women’s race than in the men’s race – and partly because ...

The WOC Long distance is the most important long distance race of the year, and therefore deserves an in-depth analysis. This comprehensive analysis of the Women’s race on WOC Long distance 2013  has been made based on spending nearly 2 hours with the course setter and several hours more with ...