This route choice to the third last control – and Hubmanns higher speed – decided the Jukola relay after a long night of running and orienteering. What looked like an easy victory for Halden after Anders Nordbergs fantastic 3rd leg, turned into a thriller on the last leg with Thierry ...
Read More »Fantasy WC: Results updated
As Wingstedt and the others who got disqualified in the NOC Sprint (+ 12th/13th/14th in the Qual) also got World Cup points, Fantasy WC results have now been updated according to the official results which got available at the IOF site today. Bushmen are still in top with the 0.5 ...
Read More »Jukola 2009 LiveBlog – also mobile version
With the mobile version of the Jukola LiveBlog you can stay connected and share your thoughts even from the Jukola venue in Finland. The success from 10Mila, NOC Middle and NOC Sprint is continued on Jukola with a LiveBlog at WorldofO.com. Again we will do our best to provide you ...
Read More »Fantasy WC: Bushmen on top
The Bushmen Team with Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen as manager has taken the lead in the Fantasy World Cup after this years seconds World Cup race – the NOC Sprint in Salo, Finland. Anders Skarholt’s Scary-team dropped three places, and is now in fourth place – 13 points down on Bushmen. ...
Read More »Time for Last Jukola Preparations
Jukola is only one day away – and it is time to make the last Jukola preparations. There are old maps of the area to be studied, map samples of the new map, and lots of Jukola trainings made by other runners which may be relevant. Below I’ve collected some ...
Read More »DSQ of Weltzien reverted due to map error
A small drama involving Audun Weltzien after the NOC Sprint Finals yesterday: As everybody could see during the GPS-tracking (see screenshot above – full tracking here), Weltzien ran through a hedge marked with ‘Impassable vegetation’ between controls 6 and 7. Thus he was disqualified by the organizers. However, a protest ...
Read More »NOC Sprint: Fastest route leg by leg
Todays NOC Sprint did not have a lot of route choice alternatives – the most important thing was to make a quick decision for each leg – and avoid small mistakes. For the longer legs, mostly the alternatives where similar in time. Below you see the route choice giving the ...
Read More »NOC Sprint Live Replay
The NOC Sprint Live Blog can be replayed below. The GPS tracking worked surprisingly well for a sprint, and with GPS Tracking on all runners, the NOC Sprint was excellent entertainment for the viewers. We had around 1800 viewers watching part of the Live Blog today – why not join ...
Read More »Hubmann and Kauppi favourites for NOC Sprint
The Fantasy World Cup Teams show that Daniel Hubmann (SUI) and Minna Kauppi (FIN) – the long distance Gold medalists – are the peoples favourites to get new Gold medals when the Nordic Championships are finished with the Sprint distance today. Start for the men is 15:05 CET and 16:55 ...
Read More »Fantasy WC: Skarholt on top
Anders Skarholt took home the first round of the Fantasy World Cup with the Team ‘Scary’, performing better as a manager than in the forest (Note! Preliminary results). Standing WoO Fantasy World Cup 2009 Full results WoO Fantasy World Cup race 1 Note that the results are preliminary, as the ...
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