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Claudio Pescia wins against Thomas Lips’ Swiss: The Curling World Cup is a Limmattal affair
The best in their field will be playing for the World Cup title until next Sunday. The Limmattal curling club is omnipresent in Schaffhausen – next to the four rinks and on television.
The Swiss national coach Thomas Lips (right) and the Norwegian team coach of the Swiss, Haavard Vad Petersson, discuss during the victory against Norway.
Image: Claudio Thoma (Schaffhausen, March 31, 2024)
Thomas Lips has already experienced a lot. The 53-year-old Swiss national coach quit his civilian job at a bank twelve years ago and has been earning his living with curling ever since. In 2012 he was hired as coach of the Russian women’s national team, and in 2014 Lips was the German national coach for two and a half years. The former top curler at CC Limmattal has been working for Swiss Curling since the summer of 2017 – including becoming European champion in 2007 in Skip Andreas Schwaller’s team.