WOC 2014: Russian team selected

Three stages of Russian test-races are completed. Russian WOC-delegation has announced at official site of Russian Orienteering federation.

Russian team for World Cup 2014, Round 3

Next stages of World Cup are coming soon. Russian team for World Cup 2014 Round 3, stage 1 (Kongsberg, Norway) includes:

About touch free systems and punching trainings

Punching at control is an element of action system during O-competitions. Fortunately, now we can see that touch free systems are spread out around the O-world. And I hope that quite soon runners will not care about time lost while punching. But for the moment it is useful to test and improve these skills sometimes.

Russian Sprint champs: Double victories

Test races for WOC-sprint were completed by Russian championships in Sprint, mass-start. Andrey Khramov and me won another gold medals.

WOC-2014 selected

Victory in Russian sprint championships (individual start) makes me selected to WOC-2014. Vladimir is a host city for these competitions. Result list  is here (in Russian). Summary in English for women:

9 May - Day of Great Victory

9 May 1945 is an ending day of German Nazism. The end of the war that costs 27 millions lifes of Soviet people. The Victory Day is the greatest Russian holiday.

Mess with control order at last women leg during Tiomila 2014 (Updated)

Usually Tiomila level of organiztion is perfect. But this year I have to report about one big fault. Order of controls at the end of last women leg was 21-23-22-24. What is correct way to react for such situation??? Rules tell "Competitors who visit controls in the wrong order shall be disqualified". In my opinion correct order means 1-2-3-4-..-21-22-23-24. And this happens at the cricual moment of women relay.

Invitation to lecture of Vinogradov Mikhail (updated)

If you are interesting to hear thoughts and ideas from coach with full list of victories from top international O-relays, you are welcome to Kvarnstugan (Alfta, Sweden) at 7/05 (Wednesday). Time is 18:30.