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The second day of WOC kicked off with the long qualification race today. Jenny Whitehead led the runners out with an early start and found the area a bit scrappy and more green than some of the other forests. Despite being told by the commentators at the finish that she…
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wouldnt qualify - she did. It was close but in is in. Next out of the forest was her fiance Oli Johnson in his 6th WOC. At that stage not many men had finished so although being five minutes down on Carsten Jorgenson, Denmark it still looked like a good run from Oil. That was until they gave him the correct splits and told him hed not punched a control. This is where the rules and perhaps the equipment of orienteering lets us down. The card registered it had been to a control but not which one and in those…

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