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APOC 2006: The emergence of China?

A little late perhaps, but here are a few thoughts about the Hong Kong Championships and Asia Pacific Orienteering Championships (APOC) held over the New Year in Hong Kong. For those of us who had orienteered in Hong Kong before it was pretty much as expected: hilly, rocky and with…
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some very thick vegetation in places. We certainly got all of that, plus two good sprint areas (an ornamental city park and a holiday camp with complex buildings plus interesting rock features). Ten minutes a kilometre proved to be quite an achievement even for the elite, but the courses were suitably shortened to allow for this. In other countries you could run 2.7km as a sprint rather than a middle race and 5.9km as a middle rather than a long race, but these courses proved about right for M40L.A few things caused minor problems on the technical side (especially the…

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