World Champs 2022
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Great team performance. Such an exhausting race- just to watch!
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WOW! What a great performance by the Brits and what a great advert for orienteering as an elite sport and a TV spectacle. Such an exciting race and Katherine Bett in great form on commentary. Worth paying a fiver for the TV and watching the replay if you didn't see it live.
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Interesting, a protest was put in concerning the four 2nd leg teams that went some distance into the OOB to the north of the river and then doubled back to where they entered. It was decided, that as no advantage had been gained by any teams, the results stood. If the protest had been upheld, Denmark would have won the bronze.
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maprun wrote:Interesting, a protest was put in concerning the four 2nd leg teams that went some distance into the OOB to the north of the river and then doubled back to where they entered. It was decided, that as no advantage had been gained by any teams, the results stood. If the protest had been upheld, Denmark would have won the bronze.
I guessed someone would protest, but that feels like the right outcome, given the huge amount of time those four teams lost in making that mistake.
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Simon E wrote:Some photos from the race today.
Brilliant! Great to see how happy all the GBR team supporters are looking after that result. Mark and Alice even got some medals!
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Does anyone know how it was possible to run this far "into the railway line" ?
From the map, it looks like there's an alley just before the underpass, but it's mapped as being quite short (and certainly way shorter than the runners went)
Or, is it literally an unmapped tunnel under the railway line?
If I were one of the runners, I'd be miffed at myself for not figuring it out faster, but I'd also be miffed that whatever I ran down wasn't on the map.
From the map, it looks like there's an alley just before the underpass, but it's mapped as being quite short (and certainly way shorter than the runners went)
Or, is it literally an unmapped tunnel under the railway line?
If I were one of the runners, I'd be miffed at myself for not figuring it out faster, but I'd also be miffed that whatever I ran down wasn't on the map.
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It looks like they were running parallel to the railway in the olive green area to the north behind the multi-story car park. Presumably they ran along the path and just kept going into what appears to be scrappy vegetation from the aerial view.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/6000+Kolding,+Denmark/@55.4878477,9.4742799,65m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x464ca02a01dd95a9:0xea8de3fa6eefccfd!8m2!3d55.495973!4d9.4730519
https://www.google.com/maps/place/6000+Kolding,+Denmark/@55.4878477,9.4742799,65m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x464ca02a01dd95a9:0xea8de3fa6eefccfd!8m2!3d55.495973!4d9.4730519
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There's a video posted as a comment to an Ivar Lundanes Facebook post
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4855647 ... 611907412/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4855647 ... 611907412/
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Spookster wrote:Simon E wrote:Some photos from the race today.
Brilliant! Great to see how happy all the GBR team supporters are looking after that result. Mark and Alice even got some medals!
Yes, brilliant for Mark and Alice to witness a 50% welsh team after all the support they've given to Megan and Welsh orienteering generally.
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Arnold wrote:Does anyone know how it was possible to run this far "into the railway line" ?
(looks at the coursemap before reading this)
The map shows a high fence in the olive green beside the railway, actually it doesn't exist.
So once you fail to go under the river, and stamp though some fairly low bushes (mapped as uncrossable hedge) you come into a small track beside the railway tracks, then some open grass (all mapped as olive). Finally, the wall at the end of the building between olive and carpark is there, about 3 feet high. (with graeme standing on the other side...).
The planner pulled a nice trick with a little patch of temporary OOB before where they make a mistake - it just changes the sightlines so its impossible to see the path under the bridge beside the river, the natural line takes you on the dead-end path beside the building.
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Thanks for the video link. Having watched it, I seriously can't believe that elite orienteers went down that way. The map seems perfectly accurate, a short paved path (mapped normally) which then turns into shrubland with a sort-of gravel track (mapped as olive green).
The rather big giveaway is that there is a railway track on your right and that you're in some crappy shrubland, when you're supposed to have a river on your right and be on a paved track with a car park in front
They should be disqualified just for making that sort of mistake no? I know it's the heat of the battle and all, but still.
The rather big giveaway is that there is a railway track on your right and that you're in some crappy shrubland, when you're supposed to have a river on your right and be on a paved track with a car park in front
They should be disqualified just for making that sort of mistake no? I know it's the heat of the battle and all, but still.
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Agreed Arnold, and if wasn't for the wall at the end, perhaps they might not have turned back. Norway dodged a bullet, or two, depending how you look at it.
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Arnold wrote:Thanks for the video link. Having watched it, I seriously can't believe that elite orienteers went down that way. The map seems perfectly accurate, a short paved path (mapped normally) which then turns into shrubland with a sort-of gravel track (mapped as olive green).
How many of them were map reading, and how many were just chasing the guy in front?! Ralph was map-reading.
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Re: World Champs 2022
It's Knock-Out Sprint tomorrow. Is there an easy-to-understand description somewhere of how it works? I've tried the IOF Rules document, but it's not yet clear to me.
Here's what I think is happening:
Which rounds have the "athlete choice" of course, picked after a 20-second look at maps A, B and C?
How many minutes is each round supposed to take?
Are courses gaffled if there isn't an "athlete choice" process?
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Here's what I think is happening:
- 3 heats, with the fastest 12 from each heat going through to the KO stages.
- Some sort of "pick your heat" selection process, perhaps with the fastest qualifiers picking first and the 36th ranked qualifier picking last.
- 6 Quarter finals, with the first 3 over the line going on to the semis.
- 3 Semi finals, with the fastest 2 making the Final
- A Final with 6 runners.
Which rounds have the "athlete choice" of course, picked after a 20-second look at maps A, B and C?
How many minutes is each round supposed to take?
Are courses gaffled if there isn't an "athlete choice" process?
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