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– The forest Umbra is the type of forest where you get nothing for free and you have to work hard to be pleased with your performances, Thierry Gueorgiou explains at his website. Today we present a Webroute from this wonderful forest Umbra in southern Italy. Try to make a ...

Today we present a Webroute from the famous PWT race in Ginosa, Italy in 2004 – embedded below. It was a really memorable race – with a lot of tricky routechoices. We consider the long leg from control 3 to 4 now. Try to make a quick descision if you ...

A webroute from yesterdays Danish Champs Sprint – the fourth leg in the mens class – is embedded below. Draw the routechoice you would have taken – add a comment – and see what others think about the same leg. See also the complete courses from DM Sprint at the ...

A webroute from today’s Norwegian Spring relay – the first leg in the mens class – is embedded below. Draw the routechoice you would have taken – add a comment – and see what others think about the same leg. See also the complete course at the Norwegian Spring homepage. ...

Want to Replay the excitement of the 10Mila night? The 10Mila web-TV coverage was going down and up during the day and night – but the WorldofO.com LiveBlog was full of activity all the time from Saturday morning until Sunday morning. This was definitely the 10Mila-night I’ve felt the least ...

Two new Forerunner GPS watches have been announced today – the Forerunner 310XT and Forerunner 405CX (ref. article about new QuickRoute version 2.3). For orienteers, there will probably not be a big advantage in choosing one of these models over the current Forerunner 305 or Forerunner 405 models. The main ...

Fantastic news from QuickRoute & Mats Troeng: Now you can see all your maps and routes in 3D using Google Earth with the new QuickRoute version 2.3. You can proceed just as you always did with adjusting your route to your map – and without any extra work, you can ...

RouteChoice Challenge is a new concept which is similar to Route to Christmas – but still very different. In RouteChoice Challenge you get to see a leg on the map – you submit the route you think you would have chosen, and can then take a look at others opinion ...

Did you miss any of the 28 legs from 2008 or the 21 legs from 2007 in the popular Route to Christmas series here at World of O? Now you get an overview of all the legs in one page – to make it easy to spot the ones you ...

Thierry Gueorgiou, Minna Kauppi, Simone Niggli, Øystein Kvaal Østerbø – the most popular stories at World of O in 2008 where either written by the top World Orienteering Elite – or about them. Most read – and also most popular in terms of positive reviews was Minna Kauppi’s late autumn ...