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Hundreds of curling-themed billboards.

First polls by STEM showed that linking a political campaign with a curling theme brought the ČSSD more than 3% of new voters. At Saturday's party chairman Gross immediately decided to put up 460 billboards on all the main routes. "I mean it honestly - it was a bit bland", he admitted in an exclusive interview with the sports channel Eurosport. "Hurry, hurry - it's in English, but it kind of activates us", he added with a boyish grin. When asked by our editor about the current season, Stanislav Gross responds, "I think the participation of my curling team in the 2006 Winter Olympics would be a nice culmination of our campaign", skip Stan sends a subtle message to the management of the Czech Curling Federation. Sobotka, the head of the state treasury, supported CC Lokomotiva Prague's vague hopes for Olympic participation: "We will secure the money for the preparation from the state budget by means of austerity measures in the programme for the support of young marriages." The economist of the Czech Curling Association Ing. "The money has to be found elsewhere," he says emphatically.

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author AL 2004