A Dutch day, a bit Norwegian and Polish.
On the way to the arena we stopped at the A Arena. The men were finishing the seventh end against the Dutch. An interesting triple take out attempt on our two ended up only as a double, so we recorded a single and the Czechs went into the eighth down one with no advantage. The Swede is struggling with the Russian. The development of the men's game is ultimately thrilling and ends with the Czechs winning the extra end after managing to play one without advantage twice, and after the Dutch one in the tenth end, the advantage in the eleventh is the deciding factor. So the Dutch day started promisingly. At twelve o'clock the women start, literally, as for the second time in a row we have no advantage in the first end. The opening is even, but the first deuce is given by the opponent. We're pulling for deuces and then for ones. The exception is the ninth end, when we're up by two, thanks to a Neeleman error. The extra end that we get to after the Dutchwomen's two in the tenth end is strange. The thinking time rule is 4 minutes 30 seconds and one time out for the extra end. We use the time out to save some time. The Dutch girls think for a long time about two stones and finally the last draw doesn't make it on time. The umpire stops the game. Honders is surprised. But even the footage we take shows that they really missed it, and their stone was short, so the win would have been ours anyway. Kind of a weird ending. But the important thing is to win. We take a short rest and an hour after the Czechs drive into the Norwegians, we attack Poland.