Commentary affecting results
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Commentary affecting results
Does anybody remember a WOC where a medal was shared because the commentator was counting down an incoming runner who was deemed to have been given an advantage?
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Re: Commentary affecting results
I could be wrong but I think it was WOC 1997 in Norway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Wo ... mpionships
Hanne Staff and Marie-Luce Romanens sharing Bronze in the Short.
Iirc there was a similar protest in the British Champs at Clumber Park that year in the W21.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Wo ... mpionships
Hanne Staff and Marie-Luce Romanens sharing Bronze in the Short.
Iirc there was a similar protest in the British Champs at Clumber Park that year in the W21.
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Re: Commentary affecting results
rocky wrote:I could be wrong but I think it was WOC 1997 in Norway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Wo ... mpionships
Hanne Staff and Marie-Luce Romanens sharing Bronze in the Short.
Iirc there was a similar protest in the British Champs at Clumber Park that year in the W21.
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Re: Commentary affecting results
I was there and remember it well. There's a good account of the race and of the countdown controversy in The Irish Orienteer of October 1997 - see page 18.
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Re: Commentary affecting results
I thought it affected the results too in Germany in 1995 too?
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I remember one where the commentator sent a runner back to punch the last control...
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WOC 2003 Sprint Final in Rapperswil perhaps?
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housewife wrote:I thought it affected the results too in Germany in 1995 too?
Yikes, I was one of the commentators in Germany - what did I do?
I remember commentating as Yvette crossed the line but we didn't have accurate race time so I certainly didn't count down. We only found out shortly after that it was joint second - I think the first UK individual medal.
Didn't count down for Jorgen's Gold either - my co-commentator got so excited that he froze and I had to pick it up with 50 metres to go. I managed to recount Jorgen's two previous bronze medals and timed it to say 'Gold in 1995' as he crossed the line - pleased with that!
Anyway why the interest in commentaries?
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graeme wrote:I remember one where the commentator sent a runner back to punch the last control...
Was that the one where the last control was entirely spurious and in the wrong place and entirely outside the planner's control, or do you have another example?
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buzz wrote:housewife wrote:I thought it affected the results too in Germany in 1995 too?
Yikes, I was one of the commentators in Germany - what did I do?
I remember commentating as Yvette crossed the line but we didn't have accurate race time so I certainly didn't count down. We only found out shortly after that it was joint second - I think the first UK individual medal.
Didn't count down for Jorgen's Gold either - my co-commentator got so excited that he froze and I had to pick it up with 50 metres to go. I managed to recount Jorgen's two previous bronze medals and timed it to say 'Gold in 1995' as he crossed the line - pleased with that!
Anyway why the interest in commentaries?
Yvette got Bronze in 1993 in the US... so second UK individual medal
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Big Jon wrote:Yvette got Bronze in 1993 in the US... so second UK individual medal
Someone else got a medal in US in 1993 & broke it in Grantown in 1994
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Gross wrote:Big Jon wrote:Yvette got Bronze in 1993 in the US... so second UK individual medal
Someone else got a medal in US in 1993 & broke it in Grantown in 1994
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buzz wrote:Anyway why the interest in commentaries?
Just helping an Italian mate who does a blog on orienteering and he asked me if I remembered the incident, which I didn't but thought you lot would...
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