Sørmarka Conference Centre, situated 5 km from the arena at Siggerud, is no longer reserved only for World Cup participants. There are still rooms available. Clubs that have previously been turned down due to the reservation for World Cup, and still are interested, are kindly asked to contact Sørmarka again.
The orienteering recruitment foundation will repeat the success of the previous two years and hand out gift cards worth 500 NOK to all girls in the W14 class starting Saturday’s long distance in the O-Festival.
Six training sessions in relevant terrain in adjoining areas will be available from 13th June. Maps with course print will be offered for sale. See under World Cup for further information.
The following reminder regarding important information in connection with the World Cup 20th and 21st June has also been sent to the IOF member federations.
One of the biggest jobs associated with an event like the O-Festival is planning the courses. As in 2006, when the O-Festival was arranged at Gardermoen, Bækkelagets SK is the club responsible for making sure that the controls all end up in the right places.
- We are way ahead compared to last year. Then almost all the work was done in May and June - There was snow on the ground till the end of May and the work was really hectic. Now the courses are pretty well in place and there’s still over four months left, says the course boss Jørn Sundby, who has responsibility for planning the courses for all three competitions.
Invitation with detailed race information is now ready for download (sorry, but the dowloadable fancy pdf version below is at present only available in Norwegian, but you’ll find a translation here).
With 5 months left till the O-festival, the competition terrain is now at least partially covered in snow. Some of us could have hoped for even more of the white powder, to make better skiing conditions.
A few glimpses of what the terrain looks like without the snow can be found here.
The embargoed area for 2009 is updated, now covering a smaller area.
Preparations are well under way in a cooperation between the 11 clubs in the O-Festival Alliance, the Norwegian Orienteering Association and Ski Municipality. The arena at Siggerud, with sports grounds, sports hall, schools and surroundings are excellently suited to a compact games. The Municipality has been supportive and Dag Amundsen has almost finished updating the maps. So now we can spend the winter making detailed plans and preparing for 8500 starts over 3 days in June.
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