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03/10/2014 || Tove Alexandersson: “My knee is tender” ||Arena||
Tove Alexanedrsson together with Kids-OL participants and Judith Wyder. Photo: Erik Borg Tove Alexandersson didn’t take part in the sprint relay in Basel today. That wasn’t what was originally planned; the World Cup leader wanted to take part. Last year skipped Tove the second last race in the World Cup in order to do the […]
03/10/2014 || Judith Wyder: “I have had some luck” ||Arena||
Since August, it is only for the last three weeks that Judith Wyder has been training well; the woman champion of the year really feels she has had some luck. It was in a race 2,900 metres above sea level that she had an accident during the Swiss Six-days. She fell down a cliff that […]
03/10/2014 || Matthias Kyburz: “We’ll see how my strength is during the weekend” ||Arena||
Matthias Kyburz wanted to take part, and he took part, in the final sprint relay in Basel. He didn’t save his strength for the weekend. He is one of the men fighting for the second place in the overall World Cup standings. Daniel Hubmann has already won. These two races will give the total result. […]
30/07/2014 || Two ECTO competitions during O-Ringen – Martin Jullum winner in both ||Arena||
During this years’ O-Ringen, competitions 7 and 8 of the Unofficial European Cup in Trail Orienteering were arranged. It was on the second and fourth day of O-Ringen that ECTO was arranged. It was in two very different terrains, but anyhow it was no problem for Martin Jullum, who was in splendid shape during the O-Ringen […]
28/07/2014 || Hanny Allston back at JWOC ||Arena||
Hanny Allston ran at WOC in Italy, and has been coaching at JWOC. The Australian World Champion from 2006 will continue with both. She has big ambitions. “How is it to be a coach? I love it”, Hanny smiles. The Australian has been head coach for the JWOC team, and especially the Aussie boys have […]
28/07/2014 || Getting to know what to do ||Arena||
For the Swedish juniors there is a very important camp in Norway in two weeks’ time. The promising runners will get to know what they need to do to get success at JWOC in the coming year. A lot of Swedish juniors – also some who are outside the national team for juniors – are […]
28/07/2014 || Three seconds from a full haul of golds! ||Arena||
When Sara Hagström, Sweden also had the strongest legs at the end of the Relay, she could be crowned without any doubt the ‘queen of Borovets’. Sara and Mathilde Rundhaug, Norway were close together with about one km of the four km last leg remaining. The Norwegian and the Swede had seen each other quite […]
27/07/2014 || Split feelings for the first ever Italian medal ||Arena||
Italy has won a medal at JWOC for the first time ever. But Riccardo Scalet has split feelings after the historic race in Bulgaria. The 18-year-old Italian ran quite slowly to the first control to get good contact with the map in this difficult terrain with so many details. It was a good tactic, and […]
26/07/2014 || Kirmula: not exactly sixth the third time! ||Arena||
Photo: Erik Borg Miika Kirmula finished sixth in both Sprint and Long, and he expected the same on Middle Distance when he was finishing. The Finn lost half a minute on one control, and about 10–15 seconds on three others. “I didn’t think about winning since I had made the mistakes, but the three smallest […]
26/07/2014 || Tommer: careful navigation the key to success ||Arena||
Photo: Erik Borg Sina Tommer was thinking that a place among the fifteen best would be possible. After the last individual race at JWOC she is a world champion. “Mistakes? I wouldn’t say so”. – Not a second? “Well a second here and there, maybe”, smiles the Swiss. She started as number six of the […]
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