Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, May 28, 2002 Cheating and OrienteeringThe Norwegian O-NETT has as article about some accusations of cheating in orienteering. Some people (who apparently are anonymous) have reported that late starters saw the courses before they started and they might have had an advantage....The starts went for over three hours and the maps weren't collected at the finish. Many of the seeded runners in the junior classes saw (and probably studied) the map with their course before they went to the start. They got maps from friends in their clubs or regions who willing gave them the maps. That is clearly an advantage. The result list would have looked different if it hadn't happened. If some of the runners had a chance to see the courses, it is unfair. It should have been avoided. I doubt being able to see the courses made a huge difference. But, the races were tight and even a small advantage could have made a difference in the final placings (e.g. fifth place in the M17-20 elite class was just one second behind fourth place). The organizers probably should have kept the maps until everyone had started. I'm surprised they didn't. It isn't cheating for you to look at the M17-20 course now. Take a look. If you got to see the course before you did it, would it have made a difference? Suppose you had a chance to go run this course -- what advantage would you get from looking at the course beforehand? When I first started orienteering, the organizers were fanatic about keeping competitors from being able to see the map before the start. At two day meets, you typically didn't even get your day one map back until after everyone had started on day two! Now that was dumb. posted by Michael | 8:21 PM 
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