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THE ORIENTEER'S MECCA: O-RINGEN
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Nordic Reach
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June 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Swedish News, Inc. Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Orienteering is a sport that mirrors the Scandinavian Spirit - a love of the outdoors, a rational approach to detail and a rested for healthy competition. Each summer, a five-day orienteering festival called O-Ringen draws thousands of people who share that spirit to the foresJs of Sweden. In 2007. Nordic Reach's Lisa Werner Carr was one of them.
Debating in 1965, O-Ringen takes place in Sweden every July and is staged in a different area of the country each year. In 2007, some 15,000 people from more than 30 countries descended on the town of Mjölby, about 3 hours southwest of Stockholm. My husband, Tom, and I traveled from Dallas to be among the dozen or so Americans who were part of ...
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