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Only China has medals from both curling categories.

The bronze medals already have their owners. In the men's it is China, who convincingly defeated Korea, and in the women's it is deservedly the Russians, who had the upper hand throughout the match against Great Britain. Already in the morning, the semi-final matches took place, in which the Swedes beat the ambitious Chinese and the Norwegians the Koreans. China's women outclassed the Russians. The most interesting duel of the morning was finally between Canada and Great Britain. Sarah Reid gave her Canadian opponent a four (leading 5-1 to GB by the break) and stood up reasonably well in the following end, but starting with a precise move by Canada to a two the tables were turned and the overseas women's quartet performed a perfect turnaround to advance to tomorrow's final against China.rnrnBeing in China is certainly an interesting experience for the entire Czech team. A visit to several shops in the city centre confirmed that the range of goods on offer is very wide, but it is not easy to come across anyone in the city who speaks anything other than Chinese. A kilometre in a taxi costs about 7 CZK and a Chinese meal about 15 - 25 CZK. At pedestrian crossings no car will let you cross and instead honk at you, in the underground commercial tunnel people will bump into you obliviously, on the other hand the helpfulness and smiles of the WUG 2009 organizers and assistants are endless. We even learned that production in some factories was halted for the duration of the Universiade to improve the local environment. Security measures are maximized. The Chinese certainly have the effort, enough people and probably money too. In the context of the increasing demands of rights holders for sporting ventures of this kind, it is possible that in the future similar large events will only be held in countries where there is at least a little dictatorship at the expense of democracy.