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IOF O-zine without MTBO?

Posted by dauntless On October - 20 - 2009
Mountain Bike at the ready in the transition area prior to the start of Rock Gap XTERRA 2007

Missing: Mountain Bikes in the latest IOF O-zine!

The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) released their latest O-zine (an on-line quarterly newsletter) on October 20, 2009, with one glaring omission: absolutely no coverage of this August’s Mountain Bike Orienteering World Championships! Oh, they provided a small little box titled World ranking, Top 10 (As of 12 October), but that too had ANOTHER glaring omission: No Australians! Now I like Foot Orienteering as much as the next guy, but when the top organization for Orienteering leaves out a World Championship, especially the Mountain Bike Orienteering World Championship, one has to wonder why. So I ask… why? Read the rest of this entry »