More than 100 of the participants in the World Cup races in Liberec last weekend signed a petition against the suggested WOC in the future program. The petition is very clear on the opinion of the runners. – We do not like the Council’s proposal on the WOC program, and ...
Read More »WC Liberec Chasing start: Map and Results
Marc Lauenstein took a surprise victory for Switzerland and Minna Kauppi is finally back on the top with another World Cup victory. The long distance chasing start in Liberec was a tough one – with more than 1:40 running time in the mens class and 80 minutes in the women’s ...
Read More »WC Middle Liberec: Maps and Results
Pasi Ikonen and Dana Brozkova won the tight World Cup races over middle distance in Liberec, Czech Republic today. Ikonen – the WOC middle distance champion of 2001 – beat this year WOC middle distance champion Thierry Guergiou with 33 seconds. In the women’s class Minna Kauppi did her best ...
Read More »World Cup Liberec: All you need to know
Excellent live coverage with hours of streamed webTV & GPS-tracking is promised for the third World Cup round of the season which is organized in Liberec, Czech Republic this weekend. The program consists of a middle distance race on Saturday and a long distance race with chasing start on Sunday. ...
Read More »Lundanes: – For me the discussion is about challenges
Olav Lundanes started it with a short Tweet – now he is back with a long explanation about his views about the future WOC program. – Since I was the one that picked up the discussion I should come with my opinion, Lundanes writes in a comment to the article ...
Read More »Lundanes: – Looks like I am supporting the destruction of orienteering
Olav Lundanes is not happy to be on the front page of IOF’s latest update on the WOC in the future project – the Power Point presentation which was presented at the IOF Presidents Conference in France in August this year. On his Twitter-account Lundanes Tweets “Looks like I am supporting ...
Read More »Norwegian Champs Middle: Skjeset vs Waaler Kaas GPS autOanalysis
Lars Skjeset won the Norwegian Championships middle distance with only 1 small second ahead of Carl Waaler Kaas. Reading the blog post of Carl Waaler Kaas about the race prompted me to make a quick comparison between the two runners. Here is part of what Carl Waaler Kaas writes in ...
Read More »Route to Christmas 2011: Day -104
Still a long way to go until Christmas – but there were so nice, long routechoice legs at today’s Swedish Champs long distance that we make an early start this year – 104 days ahead of December 1st. The leg in question is the leg from control number 10 to ...
Read More »Pasi Ikonen in 2001: Using compass = Bad development
Q: Do you ever think of going back to using compass? Ikonen: I don’t think so. Going back in this issue would be… yeah, bad development. Ikonen – who took silver at this years World Champs long distance in France – 10 years after his previous individual WOC medal – ...
Read More »Top WOC 2011 moments in pictures
The strongest moments occur just the second when an athlete understands that he reached his big goal – after countless hours of training. Experiencing the World Champs close to the action was fantastic as always – here are some of the top WOC 2011 moments in pictures as seen from ...
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