No posts without a connection. Czechs and Czech women - well done!
Internet connection for 24 hours here in the hotel costs less than 1000 rubles!! So I'm looking for alternatives, but it's not easy. Yesterday was mainly marked by the men's important win over Germany. Skip John Jahr may seem like an inexperienced player looking at his participation in the European Championships or World Championships in recent years, but it is important to know that he has been one of Germany's top players for a long time with some bad luck for second and third places behind Kapp or Stock. Lenka got sick and that moved Pavel to the number two position. The women lost big to the Swiss, but made up for it in the duel with the Italians, where especially in the end they outplayed the Gaspari team by a class difference. The eighth place (World challenge) will therefore go to the third team of the trio Switzerland, Italy and the Czech Republic. Given the worst DSC (41 cm, compared to 36 and 35 of the opponents) we will have only one life against the team that loses the first tie-break. However, if we lose, we will still be playing for the world. The men now play a match against the Italians, which, after a sensational win against the Swedes (skip Edin and Ericsson debuted at the three), can, if they win and some other circumstances, push our players into a tie-break for the semi-finals!!! The four wins so far are already a great success and almost assured participation in the 2012 World Championship in Basel.
rnphoto: men's team before the match against Italy