{"id":38207,"date":"2025-11-14T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/?p=38207"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:09:56","slug":"seeing-people-happy-at-the-event-is-the-greatest-reward-for-me-says-lenka-hronova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/seeing-people-happy-at-the-event-is-the-greatest-reward-for-me-says-lenka-hronova\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSeeing people happy at the event is the greatest reward for me,\u201d says Lenka Hronov\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Few Days After the Third Curling Event of the Season: Relief, Fatigue \u2013 and Joy.\u00a0\u201cWhen I see people at the event who are happy, that\u2019s a huge thank-you back to me,\u201d says Lenka Hronov\u00e1, who stands behind the organization of tournaments from the World Curling Tour series \u2013 EJCT, CJCT, and WCT in Prague. What awaits her this season, and what is she working on outside of curling? She answered in an interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve already had three events this season. How do you feel the day after the third one ended?<\/strong>
\nRight now, the day after the third event, it\u2019s mainly relief. And fatigue. And joy \u2013 when I see people at the event who are happy, that\u2019s a huge thank-you back to me.<\/p>\n

Was there anything that surprised you about organizing curling events?<\/strong>
\nEvery time you do a new type of event with a specific target group and in a new environment, it\u2019s at least a little bit tense \u2013 wondering if everything will fit together nicely and turn out well. I think it worked. The teams were satisfied, and we always find something that can be improved.<\/p>\n

I was pleasantly surprised by the interest in EJCT<\/a> (European Junior Curling Tour Event) as well as the men\u2019s WCT<\/a> \u2013 both tournaments were so full that we had to turn applicants away. I believe that next year we\u2019ll run all events at full capacity.<\/p>\n

You and EJCT \u2013 that has quite a long history, doesn\u2019t it?<\/strong>
\nYes. I was there at the very beginning of EJCT, when preparations were led by Karol\u00edna. Later, Norika took over the event, and I photographed it for a few years before being asked this year to take it under my wing.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, I also connected with clubs from Germany, Poland, and Austria, and in the meantime CJCT<\/a> was created \u2013 a series of tournaments for beginner players, which continues and keeps growing.<\/p>\n

My very first curling event, though, was EJCC 2012 (European Junior Curling Challenge), where I helped out \u2013 and that\u2019s when I realized how much I enjoy this field.<\/p>\n

How many events have you actually done so far?<\/strong>
\nFor the past three years, I\u2019ve been working full-time in event production. If I count even the smaller events, it\u2019s hundreds per year where I at least play a supporting role.<\/p>\n

It started back in university, when we organized various events in the student club at Jaderka \u2013 from board games to the faculty ball, all the way to bigger student events. Eventually, this joy carried me from science to human rights, to founding a slam poetry festival in Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav, preparing TEDx conferences, and other projects.<\/p>\n

The biggest event I\u2019ve done so far was this year\u2019s Prague Pride Parade \u2013 for 45 000 people.<\/p>\n

How are curling events different from others?<\/strong>
\nEvery event is different \u2013 and that\u2019s the great thing about it. Even with an event that might look \u201csimple,\u201d you can still refine it and take it further.<\/p>\n

With curling tournaments, it\u2019s specific in that even though it might seem like they can be \u201carranged in a month,\u201d in reality you need to plan well in advance \u2013 teams have to book hotels and flights. Most of the work is done already in August, then there\u2019s a calmer period, and right before the tournament it all escalates again.<\/p>\n

For me, it\u2019s also beautiful that I\u2019ve been around curling since I was eight years old. I\u2019ve known many of the people who come to tournaments for a long time, and having the chance to organize an event for them and meet again is simply a joy.<\/p>\n

Would you say you still enjoy organizing?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely true. Doing events for people I know and seeing that they\u2019re happy is just great. That\u2019s what brought me to organizing events \u2013 and I think it will probably keep me here forever.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for you?<\/strong>
\nWithin the season, we still have CJCT ahead of us, followed by WCT mixed doubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I\u2019m really looking forward to playing again with my own team after all that watching of matches! \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n

And then I just hope I\u2019ll have the chance to organize WCT events again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Few Days After the Third Curling Event of the Season: Relief, Fatigue \u2013 and Joy.\u00a0\u201cWhen I see people at the event who are happy, that\u2019s a huge thank-you back to me,\u201d says Lenka Hronov\u00e1, who stands behind the organization of tournaments from the World Curling Tour series \u2013 EJCT, CJCT, and WCT in Prague. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[591],"class_list":["post-38207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lenka-hronova-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38212,"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207\/revisions\/38212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curling.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}