Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Scary, but interesting, story from Tio MIlaOskar Axelsson, "I was in a good position on the first leg when I ran into a stick. It went right into my thigh. I was afraid because it was just above the knee I'd hurt before."At first, Oskar thought he'd be able to keep running. But then he caught sight of his bloody leg. "It hurt a lot and I decided not to continue. I could support myself on the leg but the muscle hurt. I called for help." Two runners stopped. Halden's Anders Johansson adn Lasse Torpo from the Finnish team Delta. "The wound was very open and the Finn took off his shirt and used it to stop the bleeding while the Halden runner talked to me to keep me calm," said Oskar. Lasse Torpo also took off his GPS tracking device, which runners in the top teams carry so that the spectators can follow the race. Torpo left the GPS with Oskar before continuing the course. "He did that so that the medical personnel would have an easier time finding me." If you can read Swedish, check out the whole article from Nerikes Allehande. You can see how the Delta runner's GPS track stops moving when Torpo left the GPS with Oskar about a minute into the WoO TV video. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:49 PM 
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They interviewed Halden's Johansson after his run to discuss his mistake at C17. He never mention the situation with Axelsson. He made a few errors after that disruption so I wonder if that threw him off his game a bit. That would certainly be understandable. But I guess that he wasn't going to offer any excuses and just took responsibility for his own errors.
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