World Cup Mixed Relay: About Fair Play

SUI1, DEN1, SUI3, RUS2 - must be DISQ. Do you agree? #Fairplay

Vinogradov Mike

The Moscow Center of Advanced Sport Technologies

My main job place is The Moscow Center of Advanced Sport Technologies (I work in the position of lead expert). Some nice photos about Center are here:

I totally support Niggli&Niggli's concept of new World Cup (Vinogradov Mike)

For the moment World Cup system doesn't have any logic, it is just an eclectic mix of different competitions. There are a lot of top runners who skip some races or all of them (except WOC, of course). But now famous people in Orienteering - Matthias and Simone Niggli have generated excellent ideas to reanimate IOF World Cup.

Current list of Galina Vinogradova's PBs

Today Galina ran 5000 m in 16:18.58. For last months Galina Vinogradova renewed PBs for distances from 1500 to 5000 m. Here is a current list:

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.