Controversial extremely tricky multi-level control at WOC 2026 Knock-Out sprint made the athletes run around like headless chicken. 👍 or 👎?

Great sprint race at the World Orienteering Champs in Italy, yesterday!

Check out the 62 nominations for the "Orienteering Course of the Year" in this ScrollOstory! Very cool to scroll through all the great courses, read the nomination texts, zoom in on the interesting legs and think through how to best solve the legs. Thanks to everybody for their nominations, and of course also to the sponsors! Check out the ScrollOstory and then head over to vote and win prizes worth more than 7000 Euro! omaps.worldofo.com/modern/li…

Late night work doing the in-depth analysis of the #EOC2025 Sprint yesterday, but definitely worth it. This was not your regular, boring, flat city sprint - check it out!

The analysis from the long distance of the World Orienteering Champs is worth a read! Lots of details to dive into to understand how Simona Aebersold🇨🇭 took gold after Tove Alexandersson🇸🇪 lost the gold medal "out of her pocket" towards the end of the 95 minute challenging course. And how Kasper Fosser🇳🇴 was just the better orienteer - from start to finish - for the third time in a row! 👇

Another one of my pre-Christmas traditions: Go ahead and suggest your candidates in the 13th edition of the "Orienteering Course of the Year" - prizes for more than 7000 EUR for those suggesting/voting this year - I've never had that many prizes before. The prizes include entry packages for the 5 Days Madonna di Campiglio in Italy, 5+5 Days Sardinia, the 57th Kainuu Orienteering Week in Finland, and the MOC Camp in Italy. From Portugal, we have prizes for the ABOM 2025 and LIOM 2025, while Slovenia offers packages for the Lipica Open and the Easter 4 competition. There are also entries for the OOCup (Slovenia/Italy), the Sudety Cup in Poland, and the Vienna Orienteering Challenge in Austria. Special family-friendly prizes include the Kapa 3-Days event in Latvia. Additional offerings include a 3-year license for OCAD Orienteering Software and personal coaching sessions with the Confident Orienteering package. Check out the 15 nominations so far - and suggest your own favourites!

18th year in a row with a busy December looking back at the most interesting route choice legs of the year: Join the hundreds of others who draw their daily route in Route to Christmas!

Legendary course from Nordic Orienteering Champs 1984! Had this one on my wall when growing up. Looks like you can do it as "UsynligO" now👌

The analysis of #WOC2024 Sprint is well worth a read! An amazing Sprint course with lots of challenges - you couldn't even begin to understand how the races were decided from the TV-broadcasts alone. Some screenshots included below, hit the link for the full story 👇

- Knowledge gaps are often filled with nonsense, particularly in the arena of sports performance - Stay on top of new technology, but don’t lose track of the basics (good quotes by @DrPhilipSkiba here)