Tuesday 2000-7-4
    At first glance in the morning it seemed that the prayers of Petr Dvorak didn't pan out. The low morning sun radiated on the wall of the surrounding 2000's, and not a trace of clouds. Some competitors even seemed to be looking forward to a nice hike.




    Following an evaluation of meteorological information, it became apparent that the wind at 1500 m above sea level before a naring front already had reached a speed of 17 m/s and after yesterday's bad experiences Tuesday was declared a non-racing day. The jury annnounced therefore that it would conclude its eveluation of negatives from the first two days and give penalty points for bad photographs of turning points. While good photographers Mirek "Radar" Stehula and Mirek Varvarovsky stayed absolutely calm and Varavaro in confidence of a marked improvement in his postion, poured himself, straight off in the morning, a cup of rum, while others immediately realized bad times had arrived.



    Some with weaker consistencies who couldn't take waiting for changes in the placing and struck out on trips to the Bohinsky lake or the closer lake Bled. The front still hadn't appeared and the air temperature remained relatively high.

    On the other hand some competitiors decided to stay and face the threatened disappointments in a manly fashion. In borrowed literature they rapidly searched for the most applicable method of protest against the verdict of the jury.




    "Cuts" for mistakenly photographed turning points were truly generous and in the overall placement made themselves apparent. For example, Marcel Konecny took a picture of a turning point from a low height so cleverly that the point was out of frame of the lens. So to be certain he took one more picture which, however, upon developing showed an excellent close-up of his own foot. The consequence was an undignified drop from third place to tenth place in the overall placing.

    Following the posting of results and their detailed study, the competitors remaining at camp dispersed among the surroundings and the camp on the Lesce airport, which is barely 50 km from the city of Lubljana was abandoned completely.



    Shortly after noon the sky clouded over and a light rain began to fall. According to the forecast, it looked like two non-flying days. Who would have thought that that atheist Petr Dvorak could pray so well and so effectively ...