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NEOC on TwitterToday was the Middle qualifier. Once again we had one qualifier, Ali Crocker, again with another brilliant run, finishing 7th in her heat and beating among others, the women from Switzerland, Denmark, Russia, and Norway (with the Norwegian ending up 16th and not qualifying for the final). Ross Smith and Ken Walker both had really good runs, 34 minutes and 35 minutes. Don’t have their places yet, but something about 31-32 minutes was needed to qualify. Very close. And a good bit better run today for Alex Jospe which was nice to see.
Results, splits, and maps are at:
http://live.woc2011.fr/index.php?id=md-qualifications-results
And as usual, there will be more stuff — news, stories, photos, video -- on the US Team blog:
http://usa-orienteering.blogspot.com/
Cristina was filming interviews with several of today’s runners, and I assume they will be posted a little later.
And I’ll put up more later.
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However, two requests, and they are addressed to everyone reading this --
(1) The Team is in France representing all of us in orienteering, but there are lots and lots of orienteers who aren’t on ClubNet or the Team e-mail lists. Help spread the word about what they are doing via your own club websites and friends. The Team is a great bunch and are working hard to represent us as well as possible, and people need to know that.
(2) Give them some support. A very easy way is to go to the Team blog (http://usa-orienteering.blogspot.com/) and leave a comment, or lots of comments. It’s easy to get a bit lonely over here. Getting encouragement from back home is great. I’d love to see lots and lots of comments, and it’s not hard, just need to do them one at a time. And it would be especially great to hear from all the powers that be in the federation. OK.... :-)
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Tomorrow is a rest day, then Tuesday is the Sprint qualification in the morning and Sprint final in the afternoon, plus the first day of the Trail-O’.
