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orienteering hits the bbc

Orienteering scored a double whammy of publicity this weekend, featuring on both television and radio. Both portrayed the sport well, with an emphasis on the athleticism and challenge of navigation. On Saturday morning orienteering featured four times on BBC 1 Breakfast, as part of Mike Bushe...

ar :: the deerstalker returns

Detail Events have been foraging in the woods and hills around Traquair and are taking this classic event into its second year. The Deerstalker is an "adventure run" with distance options at 5 km (ish) and 10 km (and a bit). Devilishly vague about the true distances, you shouldn't worry as mor...

nul :: Edinburgh City Race

The Nopesport Urban League kicked off in style in the pleasureable surrounding of Scotland's Captial city, Edinburgh. Edinburgh University hosted the event and it was fitting that one of its finest old boys, Mr Murray Strain, should take the honours. Murray (24) took just over 36 minutes for ...

nopesport urban league

We at Nopesport like urban orienteering, and so do you it seems as the number of urban orienteering events and participants in the UK grows each year. However, apart from The UK Cities Cup – The UK’s premier urban orienteering series, there is no UK wide league. SO, we thought we would duly oblig...

csc :: CompassSport Cup

This past weekend saw the qualifying rounds for October's CompassSport Cup take place across the country (with the exception of Scotland where the qualifiers will be in March). There was some close scoring in some rounds as clubs had large numbers of runners out in force with some dominant perfor...

World Old Boys (+Girls) Champs

In about seven months, Portugal will be the centre of the Orienteering world: here will be held the World Masters Orienteering Championship 2008. The International Orienteering Federation (IOF), during the Congress in Japan in August 2005, awarded to the Portuguese Federation of Orienteering (FP...

Happy New Year from Nopesport!

Happy New Year form Nopesport! A very Happy New Year from everyone at Nopesport. Hopefully the festive season treated you well and you are full of excitement for the upcoming Orienteering year. Nopesport is once again going to cover all the major thrills and spills of the orienteering season. ...

uk cities cup 2008 teaser!

I think it is fair to say the debut year of The UK Cities Cup Urban Orienteering Series was a good one. We were very pleased at how the 1st series went and the success is in no small part to your good selves, be you competitors, organisers, planners, marshals or sponsors. Buoyed by this we have b...

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