Jalle Jungnell - Checking the ice at the curling arena in the ice cube curling centre

Jalle Jungell - biography Sweden's wheelchair curling skip Jalle Jungell has won two Paralympic bronze medals. After the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, ...

Hi guys, this is me Jalle blogging from the ice cube. This is the day before the first game and all teams are allowed 20 minutes each to check out the ice condition. And it's the same venue as the Olympics but the difference is that they have melted down the ice and changed the logos. Now they have made new ice which was new yesterday. So actually nobody knows the speeds of the ice, if it's going to be slow or fast. There's a completely new team of ice makers making this ice so it could be a big difference. In Vancouver the ice was two seconds slower. That is much slower for us wheelchair curlers than for the Olympic games. Another thing, you see team Canada there and team Scotland here. Another thing they're doing now is to check out the stones because the stones can also vary a little bit. They can curl... the standard is two foot, they can curl up to two and half, three foot, and some a little bit less. You have make control, or control and check out all the stones you have control over and how they behave on the ice. That's the big work we're doing. Here comes our coach looking at this. And we are about to go, Sweden, we're about to go on the ice in an hour I think. So it seems like there's not much action but it's a lot of action actually, because they are checking and writing down whatever is happening. Okay, see you guys.