The penultimate day of the regular season.
Today the men were first on the agenda. The Czech teams see the Finnish national team often. The Finns like it here in Roztyly and are usual guests at international tournaments. The Finns will also be in Holland for the Olympic qualification, where they will face the Czechs again. This time our team was better and deservedly won, increasing their record to four wins and only three losses. An excellent result. One of the reasons that helped the Czechs was a better reading of the freshly sharpened stones. It has become almost a tradition that during the championship this technical finesse occurs, which brings some difficulties and others a slight advantage. The women had the Italians as their opponents from two in the afternoon. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. It's just our level of performance. We were the ones who took longer to match the slightly different characteristics of the stones being ridden, and in the meantime the Italians built up a lead that was hard to make up. We improved our game, but we had to add more risk. It was too late to turn around. The Italians had won against us. Tonight we went to see if the boys could keep up their winning streak against the Scots. The confident and quality performance of Bruce Mouat and his teammates was beyond us. Tomorrow is the last game of the regular season. The girls against the Germans and the boys against the Swedes.rn
Lillehammer, a small town of twenty-seven thousand people, lies almost one hundred and forty kilometres from Oslo and is best known as the venue for the 1994 Winter Olympics, where curling was last a showcase Olympic sport. Subsequently, in Nagano, it has been a regular medal sport. The town was also made famous by the Norwegian-American produced dramatic comedy series Lillyhammer (2012 - 2014).
rnphoto: the waterfalls, just behind the hotel