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Tight and exiting WOC Relay

TodayÂ’s Relay in the World Orienteering Championship in Czech Republic was a tight and exiting battle. Lars Skjeset gave the Norwegian team a good start with changing over as 8th runner, 1 minute behind France in the lead. Anders Nordberg was tired after the Long distance yesterday, and lost some…
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time on the second leg. It was still really tight, and I started as 11th runner, 3 minutes behind Great Britain in the lead. I did a good technical race and managed to advance to 7th position after 4th best time on the last leg. Great Britain won in front of Russia and Switzerland. But it was a dramatic finish because Thierry Gueorgiou, who was in the lead for France at the end of the race, swallowed a bee, got an allergic reaction, and had to break of the race. Finland won the womenÂ’s relay for third year in row,…

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