While the IOF killed the WOC in the Future project in January, the Nordic Orienteering Federations believe that the WOC in the future project should be thoroughly evaluated and brought to a conclusion at the General Assembly in 2012. Consequently the Nordic Orienteering federations submitted a new proposal for a ...

See how Thierry Gueorgiou, Daniel Hubmann, Olav Lundanes and the other top runners solved the challenges in today’s World Ranking event in Portugal O-meeting. The race was a middle distance race in interesting terrain providing a lot of micro route choices. – The best terrain I found in Portugal, Thierry ...

[Updated with full map] Thierry Gueorgiou did it again: Crushing the competition in Portugal O-meeting – running an incredible sub 34-minute time on the 6.4 km course. Daniel Hubmann was closest – nearly 1:30 behind. In the women’s class Lina Strand took the victory – after Simone Niggli lost the ...

Baptiste Rollier and Kristin Lövgren took home the second day of Portugal O-Meeting 2012 – a middle distance race. Rollier had two other Swiss runners joining him on the podium – yesterday’s winner Thierry Gueorgiou finished 6th. In the women’s class, Lena Eliasson and Sara Lucher were closest to the ...

Simone Niggli is back – beating the current World Champion on long distance Annika Billstam with 15 small seconds. And Thierry Gueorgiou shows that the competitors will have to fight hard to beat him in 2012 as well. Portugal O-meeting (POM) is the international season opening – with most of ...

Today’s Sunday Route Choice Puzzle is a from a Czech training camp last weekend where they ran a few interesting sprint courses which have since been published along with split times and an analysis of the route-choices by Czech Coach Radek Novotny. Here only one of the legs is provided ...

World of O turns 17 today! The Internet is 20 years old, Google is 14 years old, Facebook is 7 years old. Thus 17 years is quite an age in the Internet world. 17 years ago World of O among other things offered “a slideshow through all o-pages” – that ...

– We are getting close to finishing the update of the IOF standard for information exchange, Mats Troeng – the man behind great orienteering software like QuickRoute, Doma and WinSplits – writes in an email. Now Troeng and the IOF want to have feedback from orienteers on the new standard ...

At yesterday’s joint meeting of the IOF Council and Commissions, the IOF Council announced that the WOC in the future project is dead. – 80% of the federations are happy with the current status, it was said in the meeting according to sources present in the meeting. This is one ...

The future of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) is getting more open after the IOF member federations’ feedback to the suggested WOC program have started being published. Of the responses posted so far, there is not exactly big support behind the WOC program suggested by the IOF. Update 20.01.2012 15:00: ...