Orienteering is a navigation sport, involving running (or other means of movement) with map and compass—oh wait, is a compass really necessary? For a beginner in orienteering, or for teachers who promote orienteering, the question of equipment is an important one. Does one need to buy a compass before starting orienteering at all? We tend […]
Getting into the Olympics has been every orienteering athlete’s dream. A sport that has over a century of history and played by tens of thousands of active athletes worldwide—who doesn’t want this fun navigation sport to enter the Olympics? Except that orienteering has never succeeded. In 2000, the Leibnitz Convention held in Austria declared entering […]
Orienteering is a sport that’s officially over all seven continents of the world. China is one of the countries outside Europe where orienteering is a major sport. And the first dedicated orienteering museum in the world* is now in Conghua, Guangzhou, China. Orienteering history comes alive in the Orienteering Museum The museum opened on 28 […]
