Men - first win.
The men have their first win. It was a bit up and down in the game against Germany, according to team skip Lukas Klima, but the Czech team, playing better on average, achieved an important two-point victory. You may find the information from the men's part of the competition a bit austere, but the trouble is that there is a strict limit to the number of people present in the hall. This means that the earliest I can get into the hall is 45 minutes before the training session of the team I am coaching. And I have to leave immediately after the game. The reason for this is to try to limit the meetings. So I can't see a stone of Czech men and there is not much to read from the poor information service. I am therefore left to short conversations, if I meet the guys at all. Our national team had the Japanese women in lane B from 14,00. The tiny players from the land of the rising sun are very well equipped technically, are good throwers and overall they are a very experienced professional curling team with a number of starts in the highest quality competitions. The televised duel had an interesting flow, with teams taking turns to try and score more points with their advantage and there were some excellent shots to save the day. In the eighth and ninth end we couldn't resist the pressure from our opponents and gradually lost contact. The Japanese deserved the win. Now the Czechs and the Finns are playing. Our team is leading, but there are some technical problems reported in the hall, so we will see what happens. Klara and I are interested in this because we have to attend two technical training sessions after the matches, during which we will check the properties of the stones we have to play with tomorrow. And we don't want it to be too late.
rnphoto: the hall before the match