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WOC 2008 Long Qualification - good news!

Pavel qualified again (as at WOC 2007) for the long distance final, finishing 11th in heat A of qualification. Analysis of the split times shows that he started 2 minutes before Matthias Merz (2007 World Champion), and made small mistakes at controls 2 and 3, so that he was almost…
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caught. Then he managed to pull away and stay ahead of Matthias until control 15, and they finished the last quarter of the course more or less together.The fact that Pavel was fastest overall on two of the legs (11 & 19) shows that he can run as well as the best orienteers, and his orienteering is getting steadier. Last year he finished 21st in the final, and his goal this year should be to improve on that - but I think that in Ukraine he had a home advantage which will be missing in Czech, and he will finish…

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