IOF LICENSE

[Gross]

Looks like an elite license is being introduced by the IOF:

http://orienteering.org/athletes-licence/

IOF finally joins the big boys systems

[Nottinghamshire outlaw]

IOF making money? - can you hear the cash registers

[JK]

IOF making money? - can you hear the cash registers

The justification for this money is to fund better anti-doping within Elite orienteering.

Which of course is a fairly well-timed announcement given the fun and games in athletics just now.

[Gross]

Cost is €30..... wonder if they accept roubles?????

[Duncan]

Does anyone know if this sort of thing is common in other sports? (Having to get an athlete license to compete in World Champs / Cups that is. Not drug taking.)

[JK]

Does anyone know if this sort of thing is common in other sports? (Having to get an athlete license to compete in World Champs / Cups that is. Not drug taking.)

For Alpine FIS events:
http://www.britski.org/fislicences.htm

I'm sure I've heard of them for Cross Country too.

You also need them for motorsports (it'll have your blood group on it for instance)

They are normally needed for any world-level international event.

In some IOF countries (France springs to mind, also maybe Italy in recent years) you need a race licence to compete at any level.

When I lived in Switzerland to be eligible to race Elite at SkiO and National O events I had to fill in a form very similar to this IOF one. It was a bit strange though because it was available 100% in German, 90% in French, but only about 40% of it in English. I had to sign the form to say that they had sent me all the WADA info, not that I had read it nor that I had understood it.

[mharky]

You need a license to race in all but the smallest British Cycling road races, you also need a license to get ranking points in the UK. Price £36. This is on top of your British Cycling membership. You can get day licenses if you aint going to race much.

An international UCI license is £82

[DJM]

The pedant in me has had enough and it's time to get it off my chest ...

... LICENSE is a verb and LICENCE is a noun (unless you live in the US). If the IOF can get the spelling correct, then so should nopers (JK is excused!)

[JK]

The pedant in me has had enough and it's time to get it off my chest ...

... LICENSE is a verb and LICENCE is a noun (unless you live in the US). If the IOF can get the spelling correct, then so should nopers (JK is excused!)

[btw looks like Nopesport is still on BST - your post is in the future]

Also "advise" is the verb and "advice" is the noun, but which is better "IOF Event Adviser" or "IOF Event Advisor"? [and no ... it should definitely not be "IOF Event Advicer"]

JK

[Ursula]

What I found online is this:

Adviser and advisor are both accepted spellings of the noun meaning one who advises or counsels. There is no difference between them. But adviser, the older version, is listed as the primary spelling in most dictionaries, and it is about five times as common as advisor in current news publications from throughout the English-speaking world.

[JK]

What I found online is this:

Adviser and advisor are both accepted spellings of the noun meaning one who advises or counsels. There is no difference between them. But adviser, the older version, is listed as the primary spelling in most dictionaries, and it is about five times as common as advisor in current news publications from throughout the English-speaking world.

"English-speaking world" includes US - I was thinking of British English.

BTW was that the reference where there was a big discussion afterwards whether it should have been "five times AS common" or "five times MORE common" and what the differences were?

Chambers online seems to list both spellings with no distinction made between them.

[graeme]

[ but which is better "IOF Event Adviser" or "IOF Event Advisor"? and no ...

Definitely that third option.

[awk]

"English-speaking world" includes US - I was thinking of British English.
Chambers online seems to list both spellings with no distinction made between them.

Shorter Oxford: "adviser noun a person who gives advice E17. advisor noun (chiefly N. Amer) an adviser L19"

so not quite as dismissive of the latter as an American spelling as, for instance, labor, where it simply refers the reader to 'labour', but sufficiently distinctive for me to stick to adviser!

[andypat]

Sneaking back onto topic, is the License to replace this http://orienteering.org/all-wre-participants-need-an-iof-id/ ? I tried to register for this but the email address is coming back as not in existence.

[Duncan]

Sneaking back onto topic, is the License to replace this http://orienteering.org/all-wre-participants-need-an-iof-id/ ? I tried to register for this but the email address is coming back as not in existence.

I would say no. As it stands the IOF license is only required for World Champs and World Cups (so might only affect the top dozen or so in each nation). The IOF ID is required for any World Ranking Event (required for example by everyone entering elite at the JK).