IOF shelve plans for changes to World Orienteering Championship format

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Last Updated: Friday, 06 July 2012 15:44

The Future of the WOC project was shelved at the recent joint meeting of the IOF Council and Commissions.  Whilst the IOF believe there is a consensus on the need for evolution of the Wolrd Orienteering Championships they acknowledged that the diversity of the opinion on the changes needed was too great.

'At this point of time it is more important not to split the IOF family than to make the changes that received support in Trondheim in 2010”, IOF President Åke Jacobson said, and continued: “That is why we have decided not to continue with the current programme.'

Readers of the article which ran in the last edition of Australian Orienteer will be aware that the opposition to the proposals came from a sigificant cadre of elite athletes including Thierry Gueorgiou, Helena Jannson, Annika Billstram, Olav Lundanes and our own Julian Dent.  Eva Jurenikova who spearheaded the reponse from the athlete body must be congratulated on her initiative to broaden the debate.  More details can be found at World of O and the official IOF website.