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40 GPS Tracking screenshots of decisive moments, 900 simultaneous viewers at the most, and 260 comments. That’s the short summary of todays Live Blog coverage of the NOC Middle distance here at World of O. Peter Öberg and Helena Jansson took home two gold medals for Sweden in the end ...

Around 2400 runners have been picked for the 195 Fantasy WC teams ahead of todays first World Cup race of the season – and not surprisingly on a Middle Distance in Finland, the people’s favorites are Thierry Gueorgiou and Minna Kauppi. The Teams for the first World Cup race are ...

Set up your own Team of Elite Runners, and follow them through this years World Cup, starting the following Tuesday June 9th. The WoO Fantasy World Cup is a ‘for-fun’ manager-type competition where you can set up a World Cup Team consisting of 10 runners (either men, women or a ...

Following up the post on the mistakes from the NOC Long distance, we could not just ignore this huge mistake from the last leg in todays NOC Relay. Norway 3 and Finland 2 completely lost control on the way to the second last control – getting far off to the ...

Several mistakes of 5 minutes or more were made by the World Orienteering Elite at yesterdays Nordic Orienteering Championships over the Long distance in Salo, Finland. The GPS Tracking on all runners makes it possible to get a glimpse at how the best orienteers in the world tackle the Finnish ...

An early preview-version of the new Omaps.WorldofO.com-service is now available for everybody to test-drive. Note that this is an early preview version of Omaps.WorldofO.com, and the site may be unstable and be taken down without notice at any time. Test Omaps.WorldofO.com here About Omaps.WorldofO.com Omaps.WorldofO.com collects (large) thumbnails of recent ...

The tabloid title is copied from the Norwegian Broadcaster TV2. With the Open Nordic Champs and the start of the World Cup season coming up on Saturday, Norwegian TV2 – the biggest Norwegian private Broadcaster – gets some focus on orienteering again. The title above is from their short preview ...

The short version: Passive GPS devices are allowed – sealed/taped GPS watches may not be used. The “ban against GPS watches” imposed by the IOF in WRE events and above according to their modified rule 21.3 has stirred a lot of discussion the last days. As an answer to all ...

Today we present a Webroute from JK 2009 day 3 submitted by Dave Schorah. To make it more interesting for the reader to draw your route, we have included routechoices and splits for some of the runners in the graphic below the Webroute. You can also find the complete course ...

– This is really sad news, especially for me as the QuickRoute developer. The result of hundreds of hours of unpaid work is now banned to use at major international events. At least for the vast majority of athletes that do not have a non-display GPS watch, Mats Troeng – ...