Nordics

[DIDSCO]

Hi Jase, Thanks for the inside info. It's good that some of them could have gone, shame they didn't take the chance......are the juniors getting soft or what?
Welcome to Gothenburg anytime to toughen up

[Gross]

Strange start list for the Middle tomorrow.... 3 GB girls off one after the other.

[madmike]

is it a fluke caused by seedings or rankings? To the untrained eye it seems to be ranked with the better athletes starting last!

[Jon X]

is it a fluke caused by seedings or rankings? To the untrained eye it seems to be ranked with the better athletes starting last!

Rules for this round of World Cups say that start lists are supposed to be in reverse order of world rankings from 1June (i.e. before Nordics started).

That seems to be approximately but not exactly what has been done

[ifor]

Live now comentery just interviewing Dave Rollins. GPS tracking up and going now as well. No 2 causing some fun.

Ifor

[ifor]

Scot just made a mess of no2 and looking bad on 4 GG still going OK though. Oli 20 secs down on speake at 3.6k

On the leading 3 at the finish Speake 3.20 down Crane 4.48 and Dan 5.29

[madmike]

Ifor,
please keep up the commentary as the firewall at work prevents me seeing it myself

[ifor]

Would if I could but things are getting a bit slow just as the good guys go out .... lost the audio and having to restart to tracking. GG looks to of made a mistake somewhere down to 4th brit at 4.9km...

[ifor]

At 3.6 km just hubman to come but late

1 115 Valentin Novikov 19:28
2 116 Peter Öberg 19:29 +1
3 120 Thierry Gueorgiou 19:43 +15
4 104 Topi Anjala 20:08 +40
5 113 Dmitriy Tsvetkov 20:31 +1:03
6 91 Mattias Millinger 20:33 +1:05
7 109 Mats Troeng 20:37 +1:09
117 Matthias Merz 20:37 +1:09

[Patrick]

For those (like me) who can't get the tracking due to work firewall, WorldofO.com have a live blog including still images of some of the traces. Looks like Oberg's having a flier!

Patrick

[Jess]

oberg takes the win, thierry 2nd

[ifor]

All over never did get the tracking working again but got the audio for the finish.

1 116 Peter Öberg 32:34
2 120 Thierry Gueorgiou 32:59 +25
3 115 Valentin Novikov 33:14 +40

57 34 Matthew Speake 38:57 +6:23
62 85 Oliver Johnson 39:17 +6:43
71 53 Matthew Crane 40:25 +7:51
78 50 Daniel Marston 41:06 +8:32
85 92 Graham Gristwood 42:19 +9:45
86 96 Scott Fraser 42:24 +9:50

Lets hope the ladies do better and I can get the tracking working...

[Patrick]

Oops...looks like Kajsa Nilsson missed out one of the butterfly loops!!

[Becks]

I wonder if Karen likes being "POO" on the tracking?!

[ba-ba]

must say that made me laugh!
A brilliant 2 hours watching the womens' tracking, impacted a bit on the work, but there were some cracking routes going on there!