FCI AWC2015 travel blog IV
Saturday in AWC concluded the team competitions, and only the individual finals remain from this years edition of the world championship. This morning was simply painful. Finishing the mandatory tasks on the previous evening took longer than thought, as getting some dinner was postponed. As the result, the night was too short, and the first moments preparing for today at the Unipol arena did not feel inspiring at all. However, the large individual jumping course opened with a set of interesting teams just in the beginning – including perhaps the most anticipated run in AWC. The...
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What a day this was. It is easy to forget pretty quickly how though days longer than around the clock can be – 17h more exactly from leaving and returning to the hotel room. Nevertheless, AWC2015 Friday was full of fantastic achievements and bitter disappointments – sounds like true sports, doesn’t it . If the brain wasn’t so cooked already in the late afternoon, perhaps those events could have been captured more carefully. The time table started to fell apart in the afternoon, as the runs didn’t advance quite as smoothly as was planned most likely. For the...
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Today was the first day for world championship action in Unipol arena. The morning started early, as typical to the circumstances. The breakfast in the hotel could not be moved to an earlier time, so the plans for getting breakfast were postponed instead. The entire Team Finland arrived at the arena either by foot or by car, and got organized for the mandatory veterinary check. The sometimes dreaded measuring for those dogs competing in AWC for the first time didn’t give any issues for Team Finland, and apparently none of the entered dogs were disqualified either – history...
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The photographer’s road to Bologna began on early Wednesday morning after arriving at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport and meeting with a few other team members taking the same flight to Italy. Apart from daily items packed in the luggage, the tools for the job itself are obviously the most watched piece on the road. For some reason a bag rather full of camera stuff and other related gear often receives extra attention in the security controls. For instance, each time going through the checkpoint in Frankfurt, the officers have kindly escorted me to a room around the corner and quite...
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