Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 Live Orienteering on TVI guess one reason for micro O' is to make orienteering interesting as a live TV sport. Which got me wondering -- is there any good way to cover oreinteering live on TV?My initial thought is "no way." An orienteering event unfolds too slowly to really work for live coverage. That's not all. So much is going on in orienteering that you can't see. Looking at an orienteer doesn't give you much (any?) sense of what is going on. The best live TV coverage I can recall was the 2004 WOC in Sweden. What made the coverage good was the waiting. You felt some drama as you waited for a runner to show up at the control. Then you'd see a runner go by and you'd wait again. I think you had to be an orienteering fan to appreciate the coverage. If you weren't an orienteer (maybe even if you weren't a fanatic orienteer), you'd probably lose interest quickly. Maybe micro O' is better. I doubt it. Orienteering could, I think, make for good TV....but not live. I think a good editor with a bunch of video from a race could put together a good story. Forget about how the event unfolded live, edit it to tell a story. That's how TV covers adventure racing and it seems to work pretty well. Live orienteering works suprisingly well on the radio. I have fond memories of listening to Tio Mila coverage on Swedish radio. The announcers sat out in the forest at controls and gave updates as the teams went by. When nothing was happening in the forest, they played music. Tio Mila seems to be an ideal radio sports event (up there with a good baseball game). posted by Michael | 8:04 PM 
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