economic clickbeetle: WOC 2011 Long: The Best of Live Blog Comments

středa 17. srpna 2011

Runners not quite on time

First starter Helen Palmer has been out for 90 minutes, still maybe 20 minutes to finish.
Nice how Forsberg expects Hajek at 12th control (split) soon... He is on the way to 8... :-)
Nordberg and Ikonen will run 93... And Thierry 85 ;-)) (In fact Thierry 107 and Pasi 111, where the expected winner's time was 94.)

Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes

Klingenberg 30 minutes to the first control!
I've never seen so many concurrent mistakes with 10 minute tails not enough!
This race destroys years of mental training.
Clasesson lost.
Emma Claesson, can still repair it??
Claesson is out. This is a 15 min miss. (In fact a 14'-loss, but Emma ends the race in 18th place.)
What is Minna Kaupi doing? She is running in directon Finland now!!!
Pasi just passed Minna.
Did Mina pick the best route? (From start right to finish... ;-)
Kauppi does a Claesson/Chatang.
After this race mental coaches have to take overtime.

Organization

How can women have split time at control #10? It is in the middle of the forked part :-/
I hope there is enough water at the first split. :-) (Watching how each runner used up a few cups.)
So they've separated runners from the same country by one start position... which I presume means they have the same butterfly order.

Is there a compass problem?

Jansson: LOOK AT THE COMPASS!!! :o
Is there a problem with the magnetic field?? Everyone that has gone straight on to the first checkpoint has gone too far left, or am I wrong? I doubt that both Claesson and Jansson does a almost 90 degrees direction fault on a woc race. And now look at Luscher doing the same thing!!
They run downhill. Guess they not look at compass (or sun?).
Finally, the last starter Adamski has done the straight route to no. 1 perfectly!

About Thiery

The king is in the forest.
Go Tero go! No we will see something what hasn't happened before in the orienteerings history.
Thierry has now clear terrain without other orienteers in front of him, which is good for his performance.

Swiss go like clock

Trains with locomotives...

Nordberg, Ikonen and Lauenstein - now there's a train you want to be in!
Russian-Swedish train from first online. Novikov soon together with Mamleejev, Tchevtkov, Boström and Andersson.

... but French have TGV!

And now mistake from Gonon, is he waiting for Thierry?
Gonon just ran in the shape of a heart... a message to a special someone?
Looks like Gonon went after the #7 when he actually was leaving #5, big mistake ?
Gonon is flying Thierry to win just now... ;)
Gonon is being domestique for Tero.
Thierry still behind Gonon.... strange tactic from a champion.
Don't look like 6 minutes behind Thierry will give meal, sorry Gonon. (In fact Gonon scored 3rd!)

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