The first paragraph under "Fair play" says "During the races athletes are forbidden to speak to each other". Well that's a joke in Sweden as we all know that there will be no attempt to enforce that in any way whatsoever.
Regarding starts, the Swedes seem incapable of learning from the way we, and most countries follow us, in allocating start times. Just 2 of us entered together and not just no attempt to make our times within the block close, but they put us in opposite start blocks
We end up over 3 hours apart.Ironic that it was a Scandinavian tour leader whose offensive behaviour caused the event centre manager to run out in tears and never be seen orienteering again when we hosted the event in 1994 fumed that one of his competitors, (who had not been entered properly by him,) had a start time separated from the others.
We accommodated all the Scandinavian tour operators insuring that all bus loads started in a reasonable time frame, which they generally appreciated, but seemed to expect. Why do this year's organisers not make some attempt to provide this simple holiday friendly system. I will have to get up at about 6 one day for a start after 13.00, and I am not someone that particularly minds being along time at the arena.
