World Champs

[buzz]

brilliant run from gg bringing the 7th pack up to the 4th pack - hang in there!

[buzz]

GG was up to 6th but missed 11. so back in the pack

[Parkino]

GG small miss at 11. The pack has caught up. Big fight for 5th place. Very exciting.

[Parkino]

Will GG pick the best route to #16?

[buzz]

Will GG pick the best route to #16?

Yes

[Parkino]

But he's lost touch of Czech Republic. Maybe 1min down.

[buzz]

Yeh - he must have lost time on the ridge - and austria closing

[andypat]

MIstake Czech...

[Parkino]

Pity. Really great effort.

[Becks]

I wasn't watching the GPS that closely but it seems like GG was the only guy willing to try and interrupt the pack and do something different on that leg..,it was a valiant effort and a good result!

[andypat]

Good sprint by GG to hold off Merl for 7th in the end. Interesting that live results has them down as 7th equal but GG definitely had him by a second or two.

[andypat]

Interesting that two of last year's top three in Finland (Russia 1 and Ukraine 3) finished 13 and 11 this year. Sweden (2nd) last year won. Did Russia and Ukraine get some sort of "home" advantage from the Finnish terrain last year? Good solid results from both relay teams this year. Hopefully bodes well for 2015.

[graeme]

I'm afraid UKR and RUS were too busy having their own private battle.
Good run by that Crimean chappie on the last leg though.

[Homer]

Good solid results from both relay teams this year. Hopefully bodes well for 2015.

Surely you mean all 3 relay teams?
Certainly it does look good for next year (assuming GB still exists in it's present form). Well done to all the GBR team

[madmike]

In 1978, WOC was planned by a Junior (Just long and ungaffled (?) relay back then.) I wonder however what the average age the Italian planners are, and indeed, the British ones will be in 2015... Maybe Mad Mike and Freefall can tell us!?

The average age of Italian planners at WOC I estimate to be late 20s. The spectator race planners vary from 22 to 60 something.