World of O News

The folks at Ås-UMB make some very nice routechoice quizzes – and now the october version of the routechoice quizzes are out. You can also see which routechoices where chosen in the previous quizzes. The quiz is in Norwegian, but even without knowledge of the language, I think it is ...

Finally one of the top austrian runners will be present here at World of O. Martin Pongratz is ranked 194 at the World Ranking, and has quite a few interesting (and long) stories at his web page – so it will definetely be worth a visit. He has, for example, ...

Just for completeness there is now available splits for the relay graphically using splitsbrowser as well. Maybe not as interesting as the individual competitions, but it gives some insight into the BIG mistakes some runners made today.

Maps from the middle distance and relay in France are now available. Looking at these maps, it is no wonder the world elite had problems. At the right you see the control which stole the victory away from Minna Kauppi. Below you see part of Marianne Andersens route choice in ...

Finland took it all in todays very exciting WC relay in France. The finnish second team won the womens class after a magnificent run by Bodil Holmström on the last leg. Minna Kauppi made it a double for Finland by beating Simone Niggli in a tight fight at the last ...

After 30 minutes of running, Finland 2 is in the lead in the womens class before France 2, whereas France 2 has taken the lead in the mens class after 10 minutes of running before Norway 2. This is going to be a very interesting relay in this very technical ...

Minna Kauppi had a clear lead – but lost it all. Valentin Novikov had the middle distance king on his knees – but blew it in the end. Niggli did two large mistakes of more than 2 and 3 minutes, respectively, which took away her victory chances. Even Thierry G. ...

The king of the middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – is back after taking a break at the WOC in Denmark. He has done three extremely good races, and showed that nobody can beat him in this technical terrain – neither on the sprint, the long distance, or on his ...

Marianne Andersen took her first World Cup victory ever after winning todays very technical World Cup final over the middle distance. Overall World Cup victory went to Simone Niggli after a 9th position today. – I have done some small mistakes several places and have had some bad routechoices – ...

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 – ...