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Polo update #4
2 days till worlds!
The girls team had a good 2 days training against New Zealand leading up to the comp in Bologna. It was another great comp this weekend, the Open Women came 2nd out of 11 teams, with Germany beating us 
3-2 in the final. The U21 men came 5th and the Open men came 5th.
The Women's results were:
Russia: we won 11-1
Italy: we won 7-3
Canada: we won 8-1
Iran: we won 7-1
Semi finals
Italy: we won 2-1
Finals
Germany 3 Australia 2 (placing us 2nd overall, New Zealand came 3rd and Italy came 4th)
Cheers
Libby
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Tour update #3
5 Days till worlds!
The under 21s and open women are now in Belonia preparing to compete in the Belonia comp, while the men are in Lurichie competing there this weekend before all teams head to Milan early tuesday morning. Will be another good competition with a few more countries we haven't seen yet coming to compete, such as Iran and Russia.
Training has been going really well, all teams especially found the stay over and training in Switzerland, Interlaken, an amazing experience and made the long drive from Belgium to Bologna well worth it. It was also awesome to be able to say on Monday that we ate breakfast in Belgium, Lunch in Luxemburg, put up camp in France then ducked over to Germany for dinner and the next day wound up in Switzerland.
Things have been going really well for me, no injuries, and I have learnt so much, it is so awesome to be learning from, training with and to be a part of potentially the best women polo players in the world. I am seeing heaps of countries, and now have quite a list of places I would love to go back and visit, though Switzerland still has to be my favourite place so far. The food has been great! We got looked after so well in France, St Omer, they fed us 3 course meals for lunch and dinner! We would have spent around 5 hours of the day eating! Each meal took about 2.5 hours to get through! We had the mayor, minister of finance and minister of sport come and meet us, and we had 5 reporters, radio and news paper, come and interview the team! They payed for all our meals and accommodation while we were there and gave us free use of their polo fields and club rooms, was a real honour.
Am having troubles getting the photo's to attach so will try again on another email another day
Hope you and the rest of the crew are well,
Libby
Hi guys!
The DE paddle comp in Belgium, Ieper and Dikkebus, was a tough one but all teams did a really great job!
The Open Men came 4th out of 16 teams
The U21's came 2nd out 22 teams
The Open Women came 1st out 10 teams (being undefeated!)
The womens game results were:
Denmark, we won 5:1
France, we won 2:1
Canada, we won 7:0
Great Britian, we won 3:0
New Zealand, drew 3:3 then we won the penalty shoot out 3:2
Italy, we won 1:0
Grand final: Australia vs New Zealand, we won 2:0!
We head to Bologna tomorrow, a 2 day drive, for our last comp before the World championships
Have attached some photo's from the London international comp, haven't got my camera with me at the moment to take any of the photo's from the DE paddle comp.
Cheers
Libby
Hi Guys
We spent the first week in Welling, London, and competed in the London international on the 14th and 15th of August. The Men and U21's didn't have the best comp, but the Women are all very happy with our 
performance although we didn't get to play against any Women’s teams. It's a strong comp for the Men but unfortunately no Women’s division.
We came 9th in our division and our game results were:
Clapham A: we lost by 1
Vikings: we lost by 1
Yellow: we lost 5-1
Belgium U21 team: we won 9-2
Avon D: we won 3-2
Clapham A: we won 2-4
Because we didn't get to play against a Women’s team we organised a scratch match against the Great Britain Women’s team (the current world champions) and we drew 4-4. We are currently training in France, St Omer. They have an awesome polo set up here, and we leave tomorrow to go to Belgium, Iper to compete in the the paddle comp, which we are really looking forward to as there are 10 country's that have Women’s teams entered. So we'll get a much better feel for how we are going in comparison to the other countries. Will email through some photos next time I get a chance to get online - gotta go training,
hope you're well
cheers
Lib