A very technical middle distance course in Czech Republic is the “Orienteering Course of the Year 2018″! The course really challenged the competitors – both with tricky orienteering, challenging routechoices and tough climbs and downhills. To top it off, the area is truly spectacular, with big sandstone “rock citys” setting the ...
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Course of the Year 2015: WOC Long distance!
A fantastic long distance course in Scottish wilderness takes the honors as “Orienteering Course of the Year 2015″. The men’s course in the World Orienteering Championships Long distance wins with nearly three times as many votes as the World Cup long distance in Tasmania in second place – a massive victory! ...
Read More »World Cup Tasmania 2015: All You Need To Know!
The Orienteering World Cup starts already January 2nd/3rd with a sprint race in Tasmania. The next week the World Cup continues with two more races – a middle distance race on Thursday (Wednesday evening/night European time) and a long distance race on Saturday (Friday evening/night European time). Program Friday January ...
Read More »January Classics: Day 1
New year – new series! January is usually a “slow month” within orienteering, so why not beef it up a bit? Each day a new classic course (what today is called long distance) is featured – starting with the WOC long distance course from 1991 in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia today. ...
Read More »Best O-memories of 2011: Worth a reread!
– I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Thierry ...
Read More »Course of the Year 2011: The winner is …
… a very technical course which gave the runners a lot of interesting challenges. Read the interview with the course setters and see four different versions of the courses – from the early version to the final version. Course setters Tip: Don’t forget to offer the most pleasure to the ...
Read More »Top stories of 2010: Worth a reread!
– I have not much to say, except that I did a mistake. It is as simple as this, but I still can’t believe it and it really hurts. Thierry Gueorgiou’s “Back in Black” was the Top story at World of O in 2010. With 2010 being history, it is ...
Read More »Number Three: – Because this is real orienteering
– Maybe the best course I have ever run, was the comment from a very tired reigning World Champion Olav Lundanes after the race. – This is the kind of courses I long for all the year, he continued. The readers of World of O have voted the course to ...
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Thierry Gueorgiou found the password to access his webpage again – and now he is not only the “King of Middle”, but also the most popular at World of O. – Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, after one year of desperate attempts, I finally managed to remember my password to update this page, Gueorgiou ...
Read More »Best of 2008 – Happy New Year!
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 ...
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