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Monday in Lohja.

The Czech women completed a doubleheader. The Lithuanians in the morning and the Turkish women in the afternoon. The Baltic opponents, led by skip Paulauskaite, surprised us with an almost perfect performance and with their team's ninety percent they dominated the middle part of the match and with the win they achieved their third victory at this championship. The men lost to Switzerland (Schwaller) and Sweden (Edin) today. However, it was an evenly contested match with the Helvetic Cross representatives in particular, which went into extra time. The boys around Lukáš Klíma play high quality curling here and leave a good impression. The women took the lead in the afternoon match against the Turks (skip Yildiz) after a cleverly played four, but could not hold on to the lead and fell in their fifth match.

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This year's European championship falls slightly below average in its organisation. It's hard to know what could have been saved when booking accommodation, but in my case the result is living in a room that is very cold and where not only is there no television, but also no ordinary lamp. All that's left on the wall are dowels and a frame for a bracket. At the weekend there was a camp for young athletes who were eating at the local canteen, so getting a free chair was a superhuman feat. The European curling championships here are a visibly insignificant provincial event, as documented by the paltry number of paying and non-paying spectators.