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02/08/2013 || Photos from The World Games available ||Arena||
Photos from The World Games have been added to the IOF Photo Gallery. To make the photos bigger, click on “full size”.
02/08/2013 || Heat and sprint suit Kiril well ||Arena||
“Tomorrow’s sprint seems to be a lot about running”, Kiril Nikolov says, and continues: “that suits me well – but that suits many others as well. Still, I am aiming to get a medal.”
02/08/2013 || Favourite for a medal or two – Scott Fraser ||Arena||
Scott Fraser is most likely ending his competition season on Sunday. Before that he is favourite to win one, if not two, medals at The World Games.
01/08/2013 || The World Games course setter’s thoughts ||Arena||
“To maintain high speed and intensity, and to avoid mistakes, however minimal” – these are according to The World Games course setter, Mike Dowling, the biggest challenges for the athletes in the Sprint race, that takes place on Friday 2 August.
01/08/2013 || Mapping in Colombia – Paul Pacque ||Arena||
Paul Pacqué is the man behind The World Games orienteering maps.
15/07/2013 || Valentin Novikov – a dream come true ||Arena||
For years, Valentin Novikov has been dreaming about getting a gold in the relay together with his younger brother, but Leonid Novikov hasn’t had such dreams. Valentin ran the second leg on the relay in the men’s class. Just before him ran Leonid. Both ran well and gave final-leg runner Dmitry Tsvetkov a good position. […]
15/07/2013 || Norway back in business ||Arena||
The final competition in the World Championships ended with the Norwegian national anthem at the prize-giving. “In the relay you have to run well”, Mari M. Fasting says. She ran the second leg and gave Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg a gap of 99 seconds in front of Denmark out on the last leg. “And I […]
13/07/2013 || Simone on top form ||Arena||
Simone Niggli on her way to ther third gold at these Championships. Photo: Erik Borg Simone Niggli has reached her highest ever level of performance, and there could still be one more World Championships for the Swiss phantom. “Do you know how many golds you have achieved”, the interviewer asked at the press conference after […]
12/07/2013 || Watching parties all around the USA ||Arena||
The WOC events can be followed live on the Universal Sports website in the United States, and in addition, the finals are sent on four consecutive evenings at 6:00 on TV.
11/07/2013 || “Next year I will be in the final” ||Arena||
The 74th member of the IOF, Azerbaijan, is taking part in the World Championships for the first time and the runners are very eager to do well. They also look forward to making fast progress. There was nobody from the European country that managed to get to the Middle final, but the runners aren’t that […]
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