The Canadian team left late last week for the Wheelchair Rugby World Championships in Sweden, and held their first practice yesterday.

In a closed session, Canada played an exhibition game with Belgium, with Canada coming out on top by a wide margin. All of Canada's athletes competed in the game, wearing their red bandanas. We got some pictures which, I hope, Benoit will be able to send soon.

Coach Joe has been busy scouting those teams we haven't seen so far this year, including New Zealand and Japan who are in our pool. We'll be scouted tomorrow in our "open practice". We're planning to run drills, primarily.

The most exciting adventure so far has been "THE LUGGAGE." I believe the last missing piece is to arrive today. When we arrived, we were missing 27 pieces, including all of our rugby chairs AND all of Ian's luggage. Adventures in travel.

I believe that we got an 11th hour reprieve on our additional luggage through our travel agent and Air Canada. More on that issue later when I hear back from the Team Leader, Cathy Cadieux.

Along with those teams our coach was scouting, Team Canada is in a pool with the United States, Sweden and Austria.

We play our first game of the World Championships against an unknown factor in the tournament, the Japanese. Check out the World Championships schedule for a complete listing of upcoming games.

Check back tomorrow for the latest news from Gothenburg!