As Simone Niggle is just running out into the forest now at 12:02, the early starting swede Annika Billstam is in the lead in the womens class, and the norwegian Carl Waaler Kaas (picture) is in the lead in the mens class. Speaker sound and online results work perfectly – ...

At 10.01 Csaba Gösswein will start the show at the World Cup Final in France – at 13.15 this years overall World Cup is decided. At 10.21 Ona Rafols heads out into the forest as the first woman. This is going to be a very exciting middle distance, where everything ...

Read on to see a full analysis of who was running together on yesterdays long distance in the World Cup finals in France. There has been lots of talking about this matter at discussion groups on the internet and elsewhere – both before and after the competition – and the ...

Pasi Ikonen has put the map from todays long distance on his homepage as the first (as I am aware of – thanks to Finn Birk Eriksen). On Pasis homepage, you can also see how his pulse varied during the competition, and a picture of the best runners in todays ...

Even if Thierry Gueorgious performance today was fantastic, and he is the big favourite for winning the overall World Cup, there are still 6 runners from 6 different nations who can take home the overall World Cup in the mens class. And as we saw today from Daniel Hubmann and ...

It is really interesting to study the splits from a race like the long distance today. To aid in the study of the splits, I have uploaded them into Splitsbrowser (see link below). Note that due to the butterflies, there is a part in the middle of the course where ...

Thierry Gueorgiou is on his way to a victory in the overall World Cup after an impressive performance today. From the start, he run the race the way he is famous for running his middle distances – and had a lead of more than two minutes to Holger Hott Johansen ...

Simone Niggli did it again! This was the third victory of three possible over the long distance in this years World Cup. Closest to Simone was Minna Kaupi – who run the last part of the course along with Simone. Simone started 4 minutes after Minna, and was more than ...

… coming back in groups? Update 12:00: Simone Luder has had an incredible start, and is more than 2 minutes before Emma Engstrand at the first radio control. Martina Fritschy is in the lead in the finish, but had lost 4 minutes to Simone already at the first radio. In ...

… but Daniel and Emil can do it alone. That is the situation in the overall World Cup before todays long distance. Thierry is the master of this difficult french terrain – but can he manage a good long distance? Update 13.18: Thierry no longer needs help after todays victory! ...