The media centre of Jämsä Jukola, run by Mikko Lindroos, serves approximately 150 accredited representatives of media. – There are altogether about 40 foreign media representatives, for example from Sweden, Norway, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, Lithuania, and Russia, Lindroos tells.

Lars Ronnols from Stockholm focuses on photographing. – As a freelancer I assist several small newspapers from Stockholm, he tells. Ronnols has a strong personal background in the event. As a competing orienteer he remembers being at around the 30th place at the highest as member of Lidingö. In Jämsä he has a lot to be nervous about as his wife, daughter and son take part in the competition as part of the Täby OK -team. In addition, one daughter is in the OK Linne -team.

– As far as the Swedish teams go, Linne is good and so are Domnarvet and OK Tisaren, whose last leg runner is Simone Niggli and which I put at the top in our team’s bet for the winner. For the Jukola relay I bet for Kalevan Rasti as did many others. Lars Ronnols tells that in the main Swedish newspapers not much attention is paid to orienteering, whereas local papers feature stories often. – I grew up in Dalarna where there was lot written about orienteering, he says.

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