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Back to the 80's

The 80s was not so bad. I admit that the volume on my TV tends to be higher when some music channel is doing an hour with best of the 80s. In orienteering terms the 80s was a time when the sport was big in Scandinavia, Norway dominated, and everything…
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was a secret. The runners were sent a lot way into the forest, the finish area was a secret, but still some spectators found it. They didnt see the runners though, not until the last 20-30 secs, anyway. The IOF realized that the sport would die if we continued like this and tried to do something about it. In 2000 all member countries signed The Leibnitz convention, where we promise to work to make the sport and the athletes more visible. In the principles for course setting made by the IOF it states for Sprint and Middle that: The start…

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