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Asian women, the Chelsea case and Korean women with a clue.

The Women's World Curling Championships already have a winner. It's the Swiss. Perhaps a little unexpectedly, most people probably picked the Swedes. But the tandem of Tirinzoni, Paetz along with Neuenschwander and Barbezat proved their experience and came through the competition most convincingly. The performance of the Canadian team (Chelsea Carey) was disappointing, so much so that the level of hate mail and posts exceeded the normal level. Canada's skip was defended by two-time world champion Colleen Jones via a lengthy interview, and the marketing team that works for the Canadian national team had to be protective as well. All three Asian participating countries made it into the top six, not by accident, but entirely by right. The Koreans take bronze, the Japanese are potatoes, and the Chinese narrowly succumbed to the later world champions, the Swiss, in the extra time. The very young Asian teams put in a solid performance and are clearly outperforming the European countries that are unable to push curling to the level of professionalism and often even semi-professionalism. The beauty spot is the tablet screen, which was noticed by the Danish coach. During the duel with Korea, this screen showed Korean characters towards the lane, which the players of Team Kim sometimes followed. The tablet was held in the hand of a Korean who later, after being warned, did not repeat similar activity during the bronze medal match. Different country, different morals. We, in turn, send a warm greeting to Hanoi Kitchen, where we regularly had lunch and discussed team matters. In the Czech Republic, the national champion in the men's category will already be known. The final match between Kolibris 1 and Sem Tam Brno is so far tied 1-1.rn

photo: Korean help