Yesterday we had to cancel the European Championships scheduled for Odessa in Ukraine. For the past number of weeks we had been monitoring the situation there in the hope it would be resolved but unfortunately that was not the case. We hope that our friends and their families will remain safe and that things will return to normal there before long. We would have loved to be able to go there in May, but someday we will get there hopefully.

In the interim, our European Vice President Libor Hurdalek was looking for an alternative venue to host the Europeans in the event that the championships in Odessa would have to be cancelled, so we are very pleased to announce that there will still be a European Championships this year. It will be in Trutnov, Czech Republic, a little later than the original dates - 29/06/22 - 03/07/22 to give Libor time to organise them and to secure the venue when it was available.

More information will follow in due course.