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Europa Cup Rogla 20.-21.3.2018

It was a snowy Monday in the middle of March 2018 and a van with the Czech juniors finally arrived at Rogla, where one of the races of the Europa Cup was held. We quickly unpacked and, after our coach Bedřich returned from the coach meeting, were headed to dinner, which, by the way, was awesome and each of us ate at least the amount of food an American pygmy shrew would (fyi, it eats at least three times it’s body weight of food every day and even an hour without nutrition would mean certain death to it.)

The next day (March 20) was dedicated to PGS. It was the first Europa Cup race our team has ever participated in, so we might have been a bit nervous but in the end everyone was pretty happy with the results (although no one admitted it and we kept complaining about all the little mistakes they made) considering the gigantic competition - even some Olympians took part in the race, which was really cool.

On March 21st another PGS was held in the Rogla ski resort. Firstly, the organizers considered cancelling the race due to tough conditions (strong wind, to be exact) but in the end, everything was fine and the gAME BEGUN. Again, our results were great (except for Klara, who skilfully failed to reach even the first gate *round of applause for Klara*)

Overall, visiting this race was worth it. Each one of us gained to much precious experience and it was totally different than any other races we’ve attended. It was nice to get to know all the athletes we didn’t know before and we hope we’ll be able to get to another of these spectacular races.


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