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MEDELLIN : WORLD CUP 2019

Colombia doesn’t do normal weather. Close to the equator and the Andes mountains, it has two summer seasons and two rainy seasons. Medellin in April, the ‘City Of Eternal Spring', in the mountain highlands on the edge of the Andes, is very much in rainy season. This edition was held in a warm damp drizzle familiar to many European archers, albeit with lightning occasionally flickering just a few miles from the field.

World Cup events in years with a major title at stake have the slight feel of a warm-up event. 2019 sees the the first three stages – Medellin, Shanghai

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