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Team Canada - The Games are Open!

The Games are Open!

Strangely, the opening ceremony of this years World Championships took place today, after the first two races of the event had already been put in the books. The teams all gathered in the park at the WOC village, i.e. the university campus in Miskolc. After a short flag parade there…
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were some speeches and short entertainment, a local Hungarian dance and a chime concert! Earlier in the day, the team went out on the model map for the Relay (and Middle Final). The terrain in this area is more rough. Larger areas of the forest have limited visibility and there is more undergrowth and dead trees on the ground. Those of us not running the Sprint on Thursday will go out to the Middle Final and watch the races on site. There will be TV coverage and big screen at the arena. Can the great French Middle distance maestro, Thierry…

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