Europeans

[Jon X]

Women leg one
7th GB1 Tessa +0:43
18th GB2 Claire +1:43

[frostbite]

The only thing I can see is preliminary results, so here they are

1 2 24 Sweden 1 Gustav Bergman 35:59 1:48:27 0:00
2 9 5 Czech Republic 1 Jan Prochaka 37:19 1:48:31 +0:04
3 3 9 France 1 Thierry Gueorgiou 37:36 1:49:39 +1:12
4 25 25 Switzerland 2 Martin Hubmann 38:39 1:49:49 +1:22
5 26 24 Sweden 2 Jerker Lysell 37:54 1:50:00 +1:33
6 1 25 Switzerland 1 Fabian Hertner 39:43 1:50:27 +2:00
7 14 12 Great Britain 1 Scott Fraser 38:36 1:50:40 +2:13
8 7 8 Finland 1 Marten Bostrom 37:59 1:50:45 +2:18
9 6 16 Latvia 1 Edgars Bertuks 38:16 1:51:03 +2:36
10 13 6 Denmark 1 Tue Lassen 38:22 1:51:47 +3:20


-- 37 12 Great Britain 2 Hector Haines 40:49 mp

[maprun]

Just been announced only first teams on podium so GB and Finland on podium.

[RWK]

Seen some rumblings on twitter about the gaffling not being even/fair. Could this be the cherry on top of it all?

[andy]

Judith Wyder (assuming it's her on last leg for Swiss 1) is in amazing form at the moment, assuming all goes well for the rest of her run that'll be 3 golds this week.

[ba-ba]

Anyway, chart done, last leg of Ladies relay:
Swi have a 1min lead heading into the arena run-through. Sweden2 just ahead of Denmark and Russia in the fight for the podium. Norway1, Sweden 1 and Finland1 about 40s behind Russia.

Not got results up so don't know how Tess/Hollie and now Cat have/are getting on

Wyder the new Niggli? See what happens when Kauppi returns!

[andy]

Helen had a great run on leg 2 for GB2, 10th 3mins back. Hollie not so good losing ~5mins

[MIE]

Wyder has the (slightly) longer gaffle so it should be close with Sweden 2

Maybe not as it seems all the leading tracked teams are on the longer one

[andy]

Wyder has the (slightly) longer gaffle so it should be close with Sweden 2

last leg, there are no more gaffles

[MIE]

Wyder has the (slightly) longer gaffle so it should be close with Sweden 2

last leg, there are no more gaffles

Didn't spot that until after I'd posted -- post above amended

[ba-ba]

{edit: From GPS so some teams may be missing]

Switzerland
Sweden 2 (+>1.30)
Russia
Denmark
Sweden 1
Norway 1
Finland 1
Finland 2
Czech Rep

Love it when a 2nd team beats the 1st team

[frostbite]

1 106 25 Switzerland 1 Judith Wyder 32:44 1:33:00 0:00
2 121 24 Sweden 2 Alva Olsson 34:18 1:34:40 +1:40
3 101 22 Russia 1 Natalia Vinogradova 32:39 1:34:52 +1:52
4 104 6 Denmark 1 Maja Alm 33:50 1:35:11 +2:11
5 124 25 Switzerland 2 Ines Brodmann 33:16 1:35:12 +2:12
6 103 24 Sweden 1 Lena Eliasson 32:12 1:35:53 +2:53
7 113 7 Estonia 1 Evely Kaasiku 35:43 1:36:53 +3:53
8 105 18 Norway 1 Mari Fasting 36:16 1:37:34 +4:34
9 102 8 Finland 1 Venla Niemi 37:00 1:38:33 +5:33
10 109 9 France 1 Amélie Chataing 36:11 1:40:00 +7:00
11 108 17 Lithuania 1 Gabija Razaityte 36:40 1:40:01 +7:01
12 120 8 Finland 2 Riina Kuuselo 36:52 1:40:18 +7:18
13 107 5 Czech Republic 1 Iveta Auchova 37:11 1:40:54 +7:54
14 112 26 Ukraine 1 Olena Pitirimova 40:43 1:41:02 +8:02
15 110 12 Great Britain 1 Catherine Taylor 33:53 1:41:04 +8:04
16 127 12 Great Britain 2 Charlotte Watson 38:36 1:41:44 +8:44

[Big Jon]

Well, overall the EOC this year had more than a few major errors - map errors affecting courses, controls in the wrong place, wrong maps loaded to the website requiring new courses to be planned overnight, relay courses that were of an Orange standard (according to some reports).
Hmm....... and the IOF event advisers were introduced precisely to avoid this sort of problems after some fairly awful World Cups in the '90s.
What is IOF going to do to avoid more massive cock-ups in the future?

[graeme]

What is IOF going to do ... in the future?

Concentrate on TV coverage.

[andy]

What is IOF going to do ... in the future?

Concentrate on TV coverage.

They didn't even do that at EOC though!