Discussion: French orienteering terms

I am studying French for 4 weeks near Nice, and have to give an "expose" in French, which I plan to do on orienteering. Does anybody know a good web site that has the French terms used in orienteering, such as the control features, leg, race, different types of terrain, etc.?

You could look at the explanation of the control description sheet, which is given en franc,ais here:
http://www.asub-orientation.org/documents/descript...

Oo, oo. Now I can take the jr high kids to the woods and make them talk French!

Maybe you could also find something in North America?
Orienteering Quebec has material in French and also links to other French speaking web sites...

You could also check out Thierry Gueorgiou's site -- the Q&A is completely in French.

http://www.tero.fr/

Be careful about the terminology from "les cousins d'Amériques", as usual there is some slight differences :) (first and foremost french people call it "course d'orientation" while in Quebec it is "orientering" with one 'e')

The wikipedia page in french should give basic terminology, including different types of race:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_d%27orientatio...

I can send you a pdf which should provide a good summary of technical terms (it is technical document for training and learning purpose)

For terrain type, it's a bit more difficult, so ask me by mail which kind do you think of.

Here is a legend in French and English from one of the maps of the 1996 Canadian Orienteering Championships near Ottawa.

Thanks, Simon. Please send me whatever you have to evancuster at comcast dot net.