First thing in the morning.
A cruel morning when the alarm clock reads 5.53 and instead of hitting the snooze button and sleeping for at least another hour, I have to get up, take a shower and start communicating with the team. David still needs a couple of hours to get his shoulder completely right, so James will play his next game, against Spain. The sidelines, where the foursome in the yellow and red jerseys await us, show slight differences in spin, but it's readable. We're getting the advantage of the last stone and we're going for it. We quickly take a 4-0 lead and keep control of the game. It's over after six ends, at 7 : 1. Our opponent for the afternoon is Australia. We don't know much about the opposing team, but here, during the tournament, we have seen a few of their stones and we guess that they are not among the favorites to advance. In the second end, we manage to slip out of a tricky situation with a double take out to four, and, albeit a little skeletally, we are unstoppably heading for a win. The Australians finally acknowledge our dominance at the end of the sixth end, and immediately after the match they add the Czech team to their portfolio of opponent photos. We do some quick calculations and figure that the way forward is through a win over Korea tomorrow and an improved DSC. It continues first thing in the morning at 9am local time.
rnphoto: LSD against Australia