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Macr-o orienteering is a further development of the micr-o concept, a concept originally developed mainly to market orienteering as a better TV sport. Macr-o is however something very different from micr-o. The motivation here is not mainly to promote orienteering as a TV sport, but rather macr-o is brought forward ...

Saturday there were Finnish NOC tests long distance (won by Petteri Muukkonen and Minna Kauppi), Elitserien in Sweden (won by David Andersson and Simone Niggli-Luder), as well as Danish NOC tests long distance (same venue as Elitserien in Sweden – won by Chris Terkelsen and Signe Søes). Parallel to Elitserien ...

This weekend there are Finnish testruns for the Open Nordic Champs. In the sprint on Friday, victories went to Tuomas Tervo and Minna Kauppi. Read more: SuunnistusNet (Finnish) Kim Fagerudd (Swedish) Map + course sprint men, from Kim Fagerudd Results

På woO-TV Norge finner du nå et intervju med en av Norges aller beste juniorløpere for tiden – Olav Lundanes. Du kan enten se intervjuet i web-browseren din med relativt dårlig bildekvalitet eller i full-skjerm modus på datamaskinen din i god kvalitet ved å klikke på filmsnutten nedenfor og velge ...

Who is this Alexey Bortnik who did several very good runs in the Mediterranean Open Champs two weeks ago? I wondered about this when I read the results two weeks ago, and now I know more: A Russian fast running and talking upcoming man, aiming for the Top 10 in ...

Bergen, Norway / Lapua, Finland, March 28th 2007 (in Finnish below): WoO-TV and Virkiä Jukola have agreed to cooperate around the Jukola video competition previously announced by Virkiä Jukola. Instead of submitting videos by email as previously announced, the woO-TV/Veoh system will be used for submitting videos to the Jukola ...

Bergen, Norway, March 28th 2007: World of O, the major webpage for international orienteering news, today launches woO-TV: Online TV for orienteering content – available in near DVD quality. The main channel, woOTV Prime, will focus on top quality content about elite orienteering, and other productions with a broad audience. ...

The new norwegian TV channel TV2 SPORT today announced that they will transmit 10Mila live. – 10 hours, 10 orienteers on every team, is the message from the big boss in the sport department of TV2 – Bjørn Taalesen. – When we get a separate TV channel for sport, there ...

There is an interesting discussion going on over at Attackpoint regarding the future of punching in orienteering. [As you might have noticed, you now get to see the latest messages in several of the most important orienteering forums here at World of O (just scroll down to the day before ...

Videos are getting more and more used within the orienteering sport as part of invitations, race reports, race analysis or just for fun. The number of orienteering videos at YouTube and other online Video Hosting sites is growing every day – a YouTube search for “Orienteering” at YouTube now gives ...