The early season events are past and the big Venla and Tio Mila relays have also taken place; many top competitors have also been training for this year’s World Championships in the CzechRepublic and competing in the Moravian Open Championships. Now the world’s elite are looking forward to the first international championship event of 2008, the European Championships, in which the three individual finals also form the first round of the 2008 World Cup.

World Cup Event No. 4, the middle distance at O-Festivalen in Norway, will not include micro orienteering. Due to the fact that there is not going to be live TV coverage of the event, the IOF Senior Event Adviser has accepted the organiser’s request to drop the micro orienteering element.

Event No. 4 of the 2008 World Cup will be conducted as a normal middle distance event with start interval and starting order as stated in the World Cup 2008 Special Rules.

To view the full document, please go to Modification of World Cup 2008 Special Rules, Events 10 and 11.pdf (25.69 kB)

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The detailed plans for televising the 2008 World Orienteering Championships in Olomouc in the Czech Republic are now taking shape, and were made official on the event’s website on 9th March. All four finals of the Championships will be televised, with live productions from the sprint, middle distance and relay races, and material for an edited broadcast from the long final.