The second day of the European Championships in Crete is now complete. Check out the 500 photos.

Over the next few days, we’ll be bringing you plenty of photos from the European Championships in Crete, which took place from April 19 to 26 in the capital city of Heraklion. Today we’re starting with Day Zero, when all the teams were fine-tuning the final details, and we have footage of the Czech team’s preparations. After lunch, there were working meetings for the referees and coaches, and the evening featured the opening ceremony for the entire championship. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

We have already organized quite a few editions of this event, and each one was special and unique in its own way. This time was no different. The number of competitors, participating countries, and clubs was fully comparable to last year's event. Following the example of the test at December's Ataxon, we incorporated a new discipline for green belts into the program – point fighting. The fights were noticeably better than in December, both on the part of the competitors and the referees. For them, it was a new thing they had to get used to, but thanks to the good selection of experienced ref