I don’t know how many countries are so lucky that they have a yearly book with nearly 200 colorful pages about orienteering? In Norway we have “O-Boka”, the 2006 edition being available from the coming saturday at Blodslitet. I have been so lucky to be able to look through a ...

There have been a lot of comments to Sandy Hott Johansen’s long and interesting article regarding the WC 2007 at her homepage from many elite orienteers. It is worth to take another look at Sandy’s homepage and read the comments – and add your thoughts about the matter. Link: “Why ...

Ready for a bonus round of the Routechoice Quiz? Due to extremely good response (nearly 200 answers) – quite a few of them in english – Jo Inge Fjellstad has made an extra bonus round of the Routechoice Quiz, and also made an english translation. Expect answers to the first ...

The folks at Ås-UMB make some very nice routechoice quizzes – and now the october version of the routechoice quizzes are out. You can also see which routechoices where chosen in the previous quizzes. The quiz is in Norwegian, but even without knowledge of the language, I think it is ...

Finally one of the top austrian runners will be present here at World of O. Martin Pongratz is ranked 194 at the World Ranking, and has quite a few interesting (and long) stories at his web page – so it will definetely be worth a visit. He has, for example, ...

Just for completeness there is now available splits for the relay graphically using splitsbrowser as well. Maybe not as interesting as the individual competitions, but it gives some insight into the BIG mistakes some runners made today.

Maps from the middle distance and relay in France are now available. Looking at these maps, it is no wonder the world elite had problems. At the right you see the control which stole the victory away from Minna Kauppi. Below you see part of Marianne Andersens route choice in ...

Finland took it all in todays very exciting WC relay in France. The finnish second team won the womens class after a magnificent run by Bodil Holmström on the last leg. Minna Kauppi made it a double for Finland by beating Simone Niggli in a tight fight at the last ...

After 30 minutes of running, Finland 2 is in the lead in the womens class before France 2, whereas France 2 has taken the lead in the mens class after 10 minutes of running before Norway 2. This is going to be a very interesting relay in this very technical ...

Minna Kauppi had a clear lead – but lost it all. Valentin Novikov had the middle distance king on his knees – but blew it in the end. Niggli did two large mistakes of more than 2 and 3 minutes, respectively, which took away her victory chances. Even Thierry G. ...