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DSQ of Weltzien reverted due to map…
A small drama involving Audun Weltzien after the NOC Sprint Finals yesterday: As everybody could see during the GPS-tracking (see above), Weltzien ran through a hedge marked with âImpassable vegetationâ between controls 6 and 7. Thus he was disqualified by the organizers. However, a protest from Weltzien made the organizers…
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revert the DSQ. - Note that the hedge looks to be drawn with thickness of about 0.2 mm, while the minimum width of a hedge of this type is 0.4 mm according to the ISSOM, Håvard Tveite - leader of the Norwegian mapping group - comments. - Thus it is very difficult to see that this hedge is drawn as impassable. It looks like several other runners have been tricked by the same, as several others have also started in this direction. - Audun Weltzien called me, and I advised him to deliver a protest on the disqualification, Tveite continues.…
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