The Games will be held from the 16-24 of July 2011 in the vicinity of the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro.
The organizing country of Brazil have built 3 new villages to host the approximate 6000 ! participants from 110 countries!
I arrived yesterday, July 12th, and found the new village almost complete, fresh and clean but some problems with warm water and keys to the room. They still have to work on the serving timing in the diner but at least we finally got some coffee.
Wednesday the 13th July.
Its soon 0800 and we are waiting for the competitors to start arriving to the village. Still we are looking for information and maybe later we will get some, if they can provide...
and finally the team from Sweden arrived. First some information (quick) and then breakfast and photo in the CISM-club (that is, it will become later when its finalized with computers, shops and snack-bar and other parts).
The team will take the opportunity to join the Czech team on a day of sight-seeing and tour the Copacabana beach since they are free today.
I eventually got hold of a bus and went to the Air Force University to look for the MAP organizers, and found them!!
Sat down and worked all day and most of the evening with the different people involved in the different events. Now its has started to move in the right direction - onwards to glory!! Tomorrow I will check orienteering course.
Thursday 14th July
Started out today to check the orienteering track and spent most of the day in the forest. Lt Franco and his crew assisted in the jungle.
The Teams from Turkey and Finland arrived late in the evening.
Friday 15th of July
The whole day went in the meeting sign. Athletes were training and we did try to plan the rest.
The whole Swedish delegation had a dinner with show, in Rio.
Saturday 16th of July
The morning started with the Technical Meeting for us.
When the athletes where training shooting and orienteering, Gabriel prepared for the meeting.
After the shooting training they went for orienteering training.
The Opening Ceremony was grand and very nice to view.
Swedish Delegation march and fire of the Games, lit by Pelé !
Sunday 17th of July
Day of Flying Contest.
Flight Contest Briefing and then preparation for all teams in order of competition.
The checkpoints were very hard to observe in the terrain and since the elevated landscape affected the speed, the timing was very hard.
Rank |
Competitor | Nat |
T/O |
CP1 |
CP2 |
Finish |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Alexis Palacios | ECU |
1000 |
750 |
0 |
900 |
2650 |
2 |
Gökhan Esen | TUR |
1000 |
750 |
0 |
890 |
2640 |
3 |
Markku Vihersalo | FIN |
1000 |
1000 |
0 |
109 |
2109 |
4 |
Kamil Kopac | CZE |
1000 |
0 |
625 |
388 |
2013 |
5 |
Magnus Lorenzen | NOR |
1000 |
0 |
0 |
870 |
1870 |
6 |
Eduardo Utzig | BRA |
1000 |
0 |
0 |
453 |
1453 |
7 |
Ivar Nelson | SWE |
1000 |
0 |
0 |
203 |
1203 |
8 |
Matias Gaitan | ARG |
1000 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1000 |
Monday 18th July
Shooting in the morning and then after lunch swimming events.
The Winner in shooting was Eduardo Utzig, BRA this year, and it was decided on the last shot! With the same score of 182 we found Markku Vihersalo, FIN in the second place. Karagöl Hami, TUR followed as no 3 with 181 points.
The Swimming Event gave us a good result from Finnish Markku Vihersalo again with the time of 1.04.7 he beat the second man, Johan Arvidsson, SWE who had the time 1.05.7. Closely following behind was Fatih Güney with the time 1.06.0.
Tuesday 19th July
Fencing Event the whole day.
a small guest in the fencing arena was escorted out before we started...
The winner, Jiri Janecek, CZE beat Andre Kuroswiski in a match for the glory since they ended up on the same number of victory's, 30 each.
Wednesday 20th July
Ball Event the whole day.
The Winner was Michal Mirejovsky, CZE with the score of 54,2 s and 16 balls giving 1016 points. André Kuroswiski, BRA became second with 1006 pts and Eduardo Utzig third with 1000 pts.
Thursday 21st July
Obstacle run starting as usual very early in the morning, followed by the orienteering event after 90 min's.
Winner in obstacle run, Catalin-Nicolae Tiutiu, ROM with the time 1:37,8 rewarding 1156 points!
2nd place to Hami Karagöl, TUR time 1:39,7 and 3rd Eduardo Utzig, BRA time 1:40,5.
In the orienteering event there was another guy from Romania in the top, Ion Pupaza with the time 0:47:02 he took 1179 points.
2nd Eduardo Utzig 0:49:49 and 3rd Matti Pulli, FIN time 0:50:02.
The Price giving ceremony took place in the gymnasium of judo. The temperature was 57 deg C and made it unbearable to watch. But TV was there and we managed to have the official CISM medals given in the breaks between finals in judo.
The traditional friendship dinner took place in a beautiful dining hall at the Air BAse nearby.
Dining hall old friends Gabriel and Silva Jr
The old saying, the one that digs a hole often falls in it himself seemed to be true tonight to. Paulo transferred the old Nordic Championship tradition that the winner is served a bottle of wine in the trophy. And it ended with yet another tradition being created, that the oldest retiring athlete will drink from a cup and hand it over to the oldest remaining athlete.
After the Closing Ceremony it is time for everyone to return home.
See you in Korea 2015 !
Complete results in links below.