British competitors returned home this week with two medals from international competition.
Mark Seddon and Andy Trigg finished third in the Mammut Swiss International Mountain Marathon while out in Oregon, Doune business woman Sue Harvey took World Masters Games silver in her age class in the short distance championship.
Harvey, a former British internationalist who runs a successful map production concern, is also current president of the International Orienteering Federation and a Masters Games council member.
She comes back to her desk in Perthshire to find moves for changes which are likely to prove contentious.
Last weekend in Gothenburg, following the final of the Park World Tour, the private enterprise organisers approached IOF officials with the suggestion that the ''Tour'' should be incorporated into the World Cup series. Their idea for a Super World Cup series was met with some initial enthusiasm. They envisage both series running with a combined result emerging. But while park orienteering may be the sport as we know it in town centre races across Scotland, it is far from its essence.
Criticism is growing of what can be seen as the rush to follow where other sports lead in a bid to gain recognition at any cost.
And, in what is by modern standards a truly amateur sport, the current world cup schedule makes demands on career time and purse which critics find unacceptable.
But without foreclosing on her options Harvey sees a closer link between the two series as a means of incorporating the best on offer and reducing expenditure in both time and money.
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