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The women's round robin is over.

Five female players (Kubešková, Klímová, Plíšková, Jalovcová, Mosová - assistant Strnadová) played their last matches in the group. Poland has a good women's curling team (skipka Ran), which besides two wins played several balanced matches with better teams. Although we were in the position of favourites, we were especially careful about the opening game. Not only did we play a decent LSD, but we were really better in the beginning of the match, created a lead and later crowned it with a five in the ninth end for a final score of 13 to 4. Ending the tournament with a win is nice, but we know we could have gone higher. We finish in sixth or seventh place, along with Canada. In the semifinals are the Brits, the Russians, the Japanese and Korea. Our girls are going to come out to support the boys in tonight's game against Korea. A win is a semi, a loss is 99% tie-break. By the way, China - women had trouble again in their match against Japan. I don't know the details, but at one point (the start of the 10th end) there were 14 people (teams, coaches, translators and two umpires) on one lane. It didn't help China make the semis. My 15-hour shifts at the Erzurum Curling Hall have a backdrop of Turkish pop blasting throughout the hall, the same baguettes, dozens of smiling volunteers and Jurgen and Joe (the icemakers). photo: five against the Polish women