New details about the scandal in the world champion team

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The exclusion of Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann (29) from the world champion team led by Skip Silvana Tirinzoni (43) caused a stir in the Swiss curling scene.

Six weeks ago, when they won the World Cup, the team even went without a substitute – unusual for a major tournament – ​​because the quartet that was newly formed last summer would harmonize so well. But now Tirinzoni said: “We have noticed that Briar thinks differently than we do in many areas. That could become a longer term problem with our goal of the Olympics. »

But the big question remains: what really made Tirinzoni, Alina Pätz (33) and Carole Howald (30) say goodbye to their teammate before the end of the season on the day before the last tournament of the season? New details are slowly coming to light after the scandal.

The team said goodbye to the mental coach in January

The team was apparently without a mental coach in recent months. Quite unusual in curling, where many junior teams already analyze and clarify any problems among themselves during meetings.

The collaboration between the world champions of the series and the renowned Bernese sports psychologist Jörg Wetzel ended in January, as Tirinzoni confirmed to Blick: “We had been working together for years and parted ways on good terms. It is also about new impulses, we are now looking for a new solution in the summer.” The months without Wetzel – in which the World Cup triumph lies – were not a problem for the team structure, says the Zurich resident.

But the fact is: in the time without a mental coach, the four-man team quickly turned into a three-on-one situation. And it seems that even before Schwaller-Hürlimann knew about her expulsion, the remaining trio were already actively looking for a successor.

According to information from Blick, Selina Witschonke (24) from Lucerne will leave her St. Moritz team and join Tirinzonis CC Aarau. To fill the position of orphans, Tirinzoni says only: “Talks are underway, but nothing is official yet.”

Schwaller-Hürlimann is sporty with nothing

It is also a fact that the consequences for Schwaller-Hürlimann’s career are enormous. Your four-man curling career is pretty much over. Barely six weeks after the World Cup triumph, she is kicked out of the team that is given priority by the curling association and is likely to represent Switzerland at the 2026 Olympics.

To take part in the Olympic Games like her father Patrick Hürlimann (59) or even to win gold in Nagano in 1998: for Schwaller-Hürlimann this dream has come true quite unexpectedly. Maybe reposition yourself with another team and speculate on the 2030 Olympics? It is unlikely that with her 70 percent workload as a teacher, she will take on the double burden again for so long.

With husband Yannick Schwaller, the Olympic Games are also conceivable in mixed doubles. But de Solothurn, on the other hand, already has high goals for Milan-Cortina in the four-man curling with his own team.

Source : Blick