ORINGEN RESULTS

[gross2006]

Looks like a good race today by Claire Ward to take 2nd place by not very many seconds in D21E..... only beaten by Indre Valaite.

[Big daddy Hoddy]

Many congrats and thanks to Becks on her excellent detailed reports from the O-Ringen! At last an O-reporter who gives us an informative report on ALL the age-classes, even the very littlies!

Congrats also to the O-Ringen organisers! Can you believe it? A D10 "being crowned the winner and getting an interview on the big screen as she finished."

Makes a big change from the UK, where stonking winning run-ins by our M/W 10s & 12s often receive not a word of commentary. Which is the better way to motivate the potential O-Champions of the future?

[Tatty]

Congratulations to Joy. Another Yvette in the making?

[NeilC]

:D
Makes a big change from the UK, where stonking winning run-ins by our M/W 10s & 12s often receive not a word of commentary. Which is the better way to motivate the potential O-Champions of the future?

I really don't think that's fair. My own M12 son gets mentioned on commentary more often than not at the major events (at least when he's winning). Of course we can't compete in many ways with the O-ringen set up, but our now well-established commentary team are doing a great job in not ignoring the non-elite runners.

[G-Unit]

ach the swedish press were loving it, there were a big ole swarm of them around Joy when she won, i should know, i was in the press tent eating free sandwhiches at the time.

Badge says he took a picture. but he was eating his free sandwhich at the time too. and my god they were nice. cheers nopesport.

[samsonite]

who the hell gave g unit nopesport press passes? peter? that was u i take it? have u paid your rent?

[eddie]

i am guessing thats gaz

though i could be wrong

[badger]

I was James Bennet for the week. and how good it was.

[Guest]

Going back 10 years. The commentary team at the JK in Kilnsey picked put my M10B on the run in. They commented that he must be the youngest in with a shot of a trophy that year. They didn't have sophisticated SI just bibs but it really does inspire them. The problem is they get let down as they get older by the seniors who don't communicate with them and explain selection policies and the requirements. This of course applies to Elites as well. Ref Oli& Jenny page. It's not the commentary team that don't encourage it's some others who have'nt the courtesy to inform hopefuls/contenders that they haven't been selected or why.

Hocolite

[bendover]

why do you feel the need to turn threads into personal gripes? get over it.

[Guest]

We felt that this year the committee had a difficult job in making selections due to the high standards reached by juniors ......but feel that they did not stick rigidly to published stated criteria and as such gave reason for some juniors to feel that they had been badly treated or discriminated against.


If they are not going to stick to the selection criteria people ARE going to get p*ssed off.

Bendover - you're wrong - big selection decisions can change lives.
Will start a thread along these lines in the next couple of weeks when I have time to post it properly.

klebe

[Kitch]

ooooh
I'm looking forward to this one ....!

[harry]

big selection decisions can change lives!

what pish! if people are so easily deflected from their course by a selection decision then they obviously weren't dedicated enough in the first place. if you read any sucessful athlete's autobiography you will find they have had to overcome many many problems to eventually reach their goals.

as for that m10b maybe he was just really good as an m10b - if so he's in good company. one of my favourite people in orienteering was a legend at m10a, absolutely untouchable. now he just has a laugh and is still pretty good anyway.

[Kitch]

its probably fair to say that selection decisions can change lives,
for example if I'd gone to WOC in 97 I wouldn't have had time to go to Nepal - and that was fantastic and put me in a very different frame of mind when I went to the Braids race...etc...

But what they can't do is change character, which is what Harry is talking about.

[Doug Tull]

hocolite, klebe:i agree with ben why did you have to start moaning about selections when it has nothing to do with the topic.

if you are so unhappy with selections that have changed youre life there is nothing stopping you taking your complaint to the selectors.
you dont need to bring them here.