Spookster wrote:Yes, sorry Andy, there really ought to be. Unfortunately it looks like nobody from the organising team (and I don't mean the planner!) has written and submitted anything, because I'm certain that had they done so, it would have been published. The staff in the office (who weren't there, apart from the AGM) can't just invent a story, and an article that just says "the JK happened, and here are the results pages" isn't much better than having nothing at all.
Thanks for the response Martin, but for me that perfectly sums up the yawning (and, I think, growing) gap between British Orienteering (the professional side) and its membership. Let's shove the blame straight back on the volunteer (just like Mike Hamilton attempted to do in Focus, in itself another marker of that gap). This is the premier event on the British calendar, and there were no staff there...... (If there wasn't, who was running the British Orienteering tent? Even in the brief time I had to look around, I saw it being manned. Were they so overwhelmed that they couldn't have put pen to paper?). Even if there wasn't, the Events Manager (or her cover!!) or the Marketing Manager should have ensured that someone was specifically tasked with submitting a short report - it only needed a paragraph or two: I could have written it in a few seconds, and, icing on the cake, one or two photos from the official photographer could have been commissioned to be sent directly without anybody needing to be there. Don't just assume that somebody will send copy in, and be proactive if they haven't (i.e. support the volunteers); it's been a week now since the event, plenty of time to chase up.
As a result, the impression is that British Orienteering doesn't care. Whether the staff do or don't, however "passionate" (our CEO's words) they are about the sport, that is the impression they create, time after time after time. As someone who is a natural supporter of the NGB (for goodness sake, I used to work for it!), it fills me with despair every time I see it create such a distant, don't care, far too superior (just read the CEO's castigations of and digs at clubs) image.
And, before the onus is shoved back on a team who were up to their eyeballs in voluntary time - whose responsibility is the maintenance of the news page on the British Orienteering website?