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On Friday September 11 th 2009 Adrian had his hour of fame on top of the 1.7m (wide) x 4.4m (long) x 8m (high) fourth plinth in Trafalgar...

Any suggestions where this might be? I guess it's not really that difficult to work out that it is Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Squa...

What an event. If you haven't seen it I recommend starting by looking at the map and courses in Routegadget and then seeing gg's vi...

I spent last Saturday checking control sites for the City of London Orienteering Race on October 11th. All the photos in the mosaic on the...

What can you say. GG cruises round to come back fourth. JD decides that isn't good enough and comes back in the lead. Jamie is caught b...

How many runners have claimed a WOC medal in all four disciplines, counting Short and Middle as equivalent for these purposes? Remember Spri...

I'm fascinated by the question of which countries do best in which races. I guess this is partly driven by the British love of the under...

Well that was fun. Everything about the Sprint Race looked good, with a fantastic old town centre as a start and finish area, a detailed are...

So was JWOC the biggest thing to hit Gothenburg last week? To be honest it probably didn't even make it to top of the list of little thi...

Another day of unbroken sunshine shone down on another small crowd at the JWOC Middle Race Final. The Danes re-appeared to make some noise, ...

GB JWOC 2008 Team signalling for help After a brief interlude for the Model Event yesterday it was back to real business today with the ...

Here we go again with more reports from another World Championships – but this time it’s JWOC, the Junior World Orienteering Championships i...

And so we have made it to the final day of WOC 2007, and we start as we began with the sprint. By now the routine is familiar: dodgy breakfa...

Today was relay day and we were back amongst the windmills in the same event arena as for the long race. If you don't want to know the s...

Today was Independence Day in the Ukraine and so a public holiday. The good news was this meant that the metro was a little less crowded th...

So far the week has been hot. Today it go hotter. The spectators could look forward to four hours in a field with temperatures in the high 3...

At the press conference after his victory Thierry said that at the start of the middle qualification race he looked at the map and immediat...

So after three days of races we finally get to the Opening Ceremony. For many runners who have failed to qualify for the finals their WOC is...

So that's the qualifying done, and things can start for real on Wednesday. Kiev is hot, and sitting in the open watching the runners is ...

Today's question: Who is the most successful orienteer in World Championships history? It's clearly open to debate but later in the ...