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02.06.2013 Hubmann – back among the very best
Daniel Hubmann’s season last year stopped with the European Championships in Sweden. He became injured just before finishing his leg in the relay. Now is he back, near to his best. He was second and sixth in the first two races of the Nordic Tour. “It’s going well”, he says, “and I hope I can [...]

02.06.2013 Niggli – 3 good months of training
Since March Simone Niggli has done very well in training. So top results as usual when the Swiss star began her World Cup season. The mother of three won the sprint and the middle distance in the first World Cup races she took part in this season. Niggli didn’t go to New Zealand in January [...]

02.06.2013 Too old for JWOC – “a pity!”
Every weekend since the start of the year, Tove Alexandersson has either been to a training camp or taking part in races, but do you think that makes the Swedish athlete tired? No way! Much has happened in Tove’s sporting life so far this year. In January the first-year senior impressed a lot in New [...]

02.06.2013 Nordic Tour: second win for Simone
Several less well-known names figured on the podium in today’s middle distance race, but Simone Niggli was again in a class of her own, winning the women’s race in wet conditions in Oslo today by more than 1½ minutes. The men’s race was won by home runner Carl Godager Kaas.

01.06.2013 Lundanes needs time out
The Norwegian double World Champion Olav Lundanes is not present at the races in the Nordic Tour. He is tired. On Monday this week Lundanes was selected for the Norwegian team for the first two races in NORT. Two days later the decision was taken that he won’t take part at all. “He needs to [...]

01.06.2013 “Traditional sport in new & exciting format”
The Norwegian Minister of Health Jonas Gahr Støre followed the World Cup race in Oslo and also handed out the prizes. He liked what he saw. “It was interesting to follow the race just like it is with other sports at high level”, he says. He talked to some of the athletes and could watch [...]

01.06.2013 Kyburz: “Good to see I have the level”
With a margin of 16 seconds, Matthias Kyburz won the fourth World Cup race this season and showed that he is really back in business. “I have been a bit unsure of myself recently”, says the World Champion in sprint in Lausanne. When he took part in Silva League events in Sweden some weeks ago [...]

01.06.2013 Nordic Tour: Swiss favourites win first sprint
Twenty seconds and sixteen seconds: convincing victories for respectively Simone Niggli and Matthias Kyburz, the pre-race favourites for today’s sprint in Oslo, the first race of this year’s Nordic Tour and the fourth race of the World Cup series.

01.06.2013 Minna Kauppi on the way to Vuokatti
Our Athlete of the Month is the big home favourite at the upcoming World Orienteering Championships. Whole Finland, and several other countries, will be following her every step in the terrains in Vuokatti, Finland, in July. But what is the story behind Minna? Who is she, what does she do, and how does she train? Find out that and more in Athlete of the Month!

31.05.2013 Live streaming from World Cup events in Norway this weekend
Orienteering World Cup 2013 Round 2, Nordic Tour, will kick off this weekend, 1-2 June, in Oslo, Norway. Live streaming from the Sprint and Middle distance events will be provided by the the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK.