Orient`Show video

As you might have read, last weekend was the first OrientShow in France. De Laatste Post was there, wearing both a Press and participant hat. Overall, OrientShow was a fantastic experience. The organizers did a major effort to make the event as media and spectator friendly as possible. It was a shame that only a few participants showed up. But when these few include names like Thierry Gueorgiou, Damien Renard, JB Bourrin and Fabien Pasquasy, you know the competitions will be tough.The first event of the weekend was a middle distance. It was easily won by Fabien Pasquasy. The map wasn  that special, except for the far more contour lines than expected in this part of France, but the course had a few route choices in the final part. Something more interesting was…
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the presence of a group of a school. Both the kids and teachers were quite interested in Orienteering. They had promo folders of the French Team and papers to get autographs of the stars. Even we considered for a moment to go to Thierry and ask his autograph, but when thinking of our goal for the weekend (ie. be faster than Him at least once), we thought it wouldn  be that appropriate. Anyway, this shows that the French are doing some efforts in promoting orienteering and that it actually works. The OrientShow itself was the next event. It took place at a terrain close to Decathlon, a large sports store. It was a perfect spot for such a competition. Spectators were a few meters higher than most of the terrain, so they had an excellent view on whatever was going on down there. Problem was that there were hardly any…

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