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01/09/2012 || Stand-up acclaim for Simone Niggli ||Arena||
The speaker asked all the spectators to stand up to acclaim Simone Niggli’s success today. Simone again ran a superb race, but the World Cup races today and on the coming days are a bit different from the biggest occasion of the year. “WOC was of course something special, being on home ground, but the […]
01/09/2012 || Klingenberg: “One of my best performances” ||Arena||
Emma Klingenberg, second in today’s Sprint, is a remarkably good Danish junior. Earlier in the summer she became a Junior World Champion. “This is really one of the best performances I have achieved”, the Dane says. She became Junior World Champion in Sprint way back in 2008. In July this year she secured a Danish […]
01/09/2012 || Lundanes: “Good for me with the climbing” ||Arena||
Olav Lundanes won the Sprint distance at Holmenkollen today, and the Norwegian thinks it was good for him with the running being in forest and with a lot of climbing. “The course was such that I had to climb the height of the ski jump at Holmenkollen almost 3 times. There was also a lot […]
21/07/2012 || Simone and the younger runners inspire each other ||Arena||
Simone Niggli took her 20th WOC gold today; Ines Brodmann and Judith Wyder took their first. Together they inspire each other. “It’s nice to run with Ines and Judith. It’s a good team”, Simone says. She is 34 years old and has been in the business for a very long time. Ines is 27 and […]
21/07/2012 || “Incredible – we did it!” ||Arena||
On the way to the second last control Jan Prochazka got ahead of Olav Lundanes just as he had planned to do, and he ran into take Czech Republic’s first relay gold ever at WOC. It was a tough battle on the last leg in the relay and three men – Jan Prochazka, Olav Lundanes […]
19/07/2012 || There could be one more WOC for Simone ||Arena||
Simone Niggli could again be a participant at WOC in Finland next year. She is not at all sure she will stop this year. On the Long distance she had a superb race yet again and won her 19th WOC gold. “I have grown up in the kind of terrain around here”, she explains after […]
19/07/2012 || Olav Lundanes: “My best performance” ||Arena||
Olav Lundanes took a very convincing victory today, and believes this performance is better than the last time he won WOC gold. Now he has won the Long distance title twice. “This victory comes in a terrain I have not grown up in”, he says. The 24-year-old Norwegian won the same distance in WOC in […]
18/07/2012 || A news magazine every day ||Arena||
Every day the Daily O Magazine rolls off the press in the early hours and is distributed to various outlets so that everyone attending the championships can easily get a copy. Sixteen pages in each issue, it is full of news, reports, results and comment. Today’s issue focuses on the Middle distance final and […]
17/07/2012 || An injury got Edgars back to the forest ||Arena||
The first ever Latvian winner at a World Championships in orienteering ended up again with map and compass because he couldn’t run on the roads. The 27-year-old athlete is from eastern Latvia originally and grew up in an orienteering family, but he wasn’t so eager to orienteer. “It was first when I became 17 years […]
17/07/2012 || A joyful time for Minna ||Arena||
Minna Kauppi didn’t hide her joy today just after she had finished. The Finn knew she had run a specially good race. Just a few small mistakes were made on the 5.5 km long course, with 18 controls. “It is maybe the most demanding course I have ever run. All the time there was orienteering […]
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