The latest issue of the IOF
publication Inside Orienteering is now available on the IOF webpage.
On it, you may read about the upcoming SkiO Season, meet the new IOF
Office in Sweden, follow the first ever Egyptian Sprint Orienteering
Championships and much more.
In the last issue of Inside
Orienteering, published in June [HERE], you could enjoy a look back at the
years that the IOF Office spent in Finland, and remember the hard
work and progress that was undergone there. Since then, a lot has
been happening behind the scenes. The entire IOF Office has upped
sticks and moved, from Finland’s capital Helsinki, to the regional
capital Karlstad, in Värmland, Sweden. This is probably one of the main reasons why Inside Orienteering's third issue is been published so late. Written by Kirsty McIntire, “IOF Office – The
Beginning of a New Era” is an informal (and nice) presentation of all staff, from
Tom Hollowell, the new Secretary General / Chief Executive Officer,
to David Wästlund, the Sports Administrator, Malin Björqvist,
responsible for the Global Development & Communications Officer,
Hans Jørgen Kvåle, the Marketing Manager, Jörn Sundby, IOF Senior
Event Adviser for the World Orienteering Championships, Henrik
Skoglund, who works with Eventor, Ed Niland, manager of the IOF's
Anti-Doping plans and, of course, Kirsty McIntyre, the Office
Administrator.
The Winter is here and Erik Borg talks
about Ski Orienteering and the “Great motivations with the big
events”. The 2018 World Cup Ski Orienteering races will be at
Craftsbury Outdoor Center, in northern Vermont, USA, and the subject
deserves his special attention. But also the next European
Championships, in Obertilliach, Austria, “A perfect location for a
Championship”. We can also read a nice interview with Daisy Kudre,
expecting to see her “back in the ski-o world with a smiling face”,
and another Interview with Juraj Nemec, IOF Event Adviser for the
World University Championships and “a door opener on the Olympic
Road”. We may also see in the words of Brian Porteous, the IOF
President, a reinforcement of this “Olympic project”: “The
International Olympic Committee's Agenda 2020 gives us real
opportunities to be included especially in the Olympic Winter Games
and it is important therefore that all federations who can support
and encourage our skiO discipline.”
“Around the World”, José Angel
Nieto Poblete presents the “Women and Sports” project, a
program developed by the Spanish Orienteering Federation and the
National Sports Council; Zoran Milovanovic invites us to the beautiful
Al Azhar Park, in Cairo, for the first ever Sprint Orienteering
Championships of Egypt; and Dominic Yue left us a general idea about
the sixth World Military Games, in Mungyeong, South Korea. Finally,
Daniel Hubmann, the current leader of the IOF World Ranking,
describes his favorite map: Irbene, in Latvia. In this interview,
conducted by Erik Borg, you can read that “he has been on the map
only once. It was on the Long Distance at the European
Championship in 2008. Daniel finished
second after Dmitry Tsvetkov. The difference between the Russian and
Hubmann was 33 seconds on the 16,9 km long course with 33 controls.”
This and much more to read at
http://orienteering.org/edocker/inside-orienteering/2015-3/InsideOrient%203_15.pdf.
Joaquim Margarido
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