Hi everyone, it is know my turn to do the diaries as we head into the race period. Well a 6:00am start and a trip to Tesco for food for the day. Natasha and Ethan were doing an early morning recovery session on the flat-water in Prague, followed by all the team did a stretching session at 9:00 in the Gym.

Ashleigh, Ben and Joey headed to the course at 10:30 for a session at 12 noon, the others elected to have a rest day. Boat control was at 1:00PM with all boats, PFD's and Helmets passing scrutineering without an issue, first time ever.

Accreditation procedures followed with all athletes and team officials issued there accreditation. There are some really good mug shots on the accreditation cards for posterity.

The course was closed to all competitors at 2:00pm for course erection for the qualification tomorrow and on Saturday. C1 and K1W qualification will be on Friday kicking of at 9:00am with C1 men followed by K1W. Two runs of Teams for C1 and K1 women will be in the afternoon.

Demonstration runs were at 4:00pm with all attending; with demonstration runs came the rain. After demos all the athletes walke dthe course with the cioaches. The course consists of 20 gates of which 6 are up gates. A photo of the course design will be in the photo gallery.

The team went to dinner in Roudnice at the Pizzeria before the opening ceremony at 7:00pm. The Open Ceremony was dampened a little by the continual rain through out. The ceremony was attended by all the nations in their uniforms and was a very colourful affair. A couple of short speeches by the dignitaries and it was over.

Back to Prague for video review of the demo runs and off to bed… I went to Tesco this evening to stock up for race day, this place is open 24 hours.

A complete set of results will be at www.kkroudnice.cz under Results

Online results will be on the web at http://www.results.cz/liveres.php

Also I have put the links on the OZ Junior Site under our results page.

Cheers for now

Geoff