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06/07/2014 || LiveCenter up and running – if you have problems, check here ||Arena||
IOF LiveCenter was first tested at competition yesterday during World Orienteering Championships Sprint in Venice, Italy. The LiveCenter offered live GPS tracking and web-TV. Speaker sound was not working well yesterday, but hopefully it will in the future events. The address is livecenter.orienteering.org. Some users experienced problems with logging in to the LiveCenter after buying […]
08/06/2014 || Kratov – “I’m not experienced in this kind of terrain” ||Arena||
Oleksandr Kratov didn’t feel very comfortable with the terrain in the Long distance World Cup race in Norway, but on the podium he stepped to the top. The Ukrainian had a very good race, but he didn’t take the smartest route choices all the way. On one of the long legs he lost about two […]
08/06/2014 || Ida Bobach had to have a break from running ||Arena||
Last autumn Ida Bobach didn’t run at all for some time, and she still isn’t running how she would like to, but she’s still among the very best in the world. As a junior she won seven gold medals in Junior World Championships, and as a last-year junior she won a medal on the very […]
07/06/2014 || Tove A. – “I’ll be even better at WOC” ||Arena||
Tove Alexandersson got her third World Cup victory within a month on the Middle distance in Norway today, but this is not something she is thinking about. “I had an almost perfect race”, smiles Tove. She won with a margin of 1.58 minutes ahead of her team-mate Helena Jansson. “It’s going well. It feels better […]
07/06/2014 || Lundanes’ first victory since 2012 ||Arena||
Olav Lundanes was once again the very best today, but he thinks that his shape has to be better for success in Italy. “I felt it was hard physically”, he says. The Norwegian won just in front of Pasi Ikonen. He ran an almost perfect race technically in the forests around Kongsberg, just 100 kilometres […]
07/06/2014 || Pasi Ikonen – better than ever ||Arena||
Pasi Ikonen just missed winning by five seconds, but the Finn is very glad for the good place. The World Champion from 2001 is really back. “Problems? Yes, I have had most of them”, Pasi considers. It has been a bit up and down for some years even though he has had a lot […]
17/04/2014 || More success for Volynska after The World Games ||Arena||
Nadiya Volynska in the European Championships relay. Photo: Erik Borg In the European Championships Sprint Nadiya Volynska won her first European or World Championships medal, but it was not her first international medal. “I got a medal at the middle distance at The World Games in Colombia last year. That was very big for my […]
17/04/2014 || A good combination of old and new – Czech Republic ||Arena||
The Czech team after the relay. Photo: Erik Borg Two years ago Czech Republic won men’s World Championships relay in Switzerland. In the European Championships relay in Portugal the Czech were really satisfied with silver. “We have almost a completely new team. I am the only “old one” – the other two are the new […]
17/04/2014 || Wyder got self-confidence ||Arena||
The victorious Swiss relay team at the finish line. Photo: Erik Borg After the first qualication races at the European Championships Judith Wyder started to perform very well. At the end, the Swiss became the most successful athlete of the Championships in Portugal. “It has been an incredible week”, she smiles. In the relay she […]
17/04/2014 || Bergman was strongest ||Arena||
Swedish joy at the finish. Photo: Erik Borg There was a huge battle for the victory on the last leg of the men’s relay, but one man was strongest of them all: Gustav Bergman. He saw Jan Prochazka from Czech Republic just behind him for the last kilometres. “But he didn’t seem to come closer”, […]
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