Comments on: Omdal and Hauswirth win Norwegian WOC selection Long

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:55:35 +0000

Good point! Added comment about it now. I didn’t really compare the split times here, I was more concerned with the route choice options. I guess although this does not have a very big impact on route choice, it could influence the choice of route (i.e. men being more probable to go left).

By: MKG

MKG — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:32:17 +0000

If you look carefully 7-8 men is a little bit shorter than 2-3 women. The starting control is not exactly the same, so it saves around 30sec for the women on this leg.

By: Terje Mathisen

Terje Mathisen — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 07:58:49 +0000

@Dilbert: As my brother said a day or two ago, I think you are wrong. :-)

Mari Fasting is obviously both fast and strong enough to fight for a long distance medal, I’m particularly impressed by how she did the very difficult side slope leg (7-8) faster than all the men.

With Olav back on the starting line as well I think this WOC can be quite good.

By: Dilbert

Dilbert — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 20:27:32 +0000

Excellent course! A lot of bad route choices and mistakes by most runners …
Again, as I said after the middle distance, I think this shows (once again) that the level of the Norwegian WOC candidates are not at the highest international level. And I don’t think Norway will get a single medal this year – sorry.