Even before the medal ceremony at this year's World Championship in Russia, our columnist Thomas Roost provides you with ten general observations about international hockey plus five Swiss-specific comments. 

It’s a common habit that losers try to copy winners. “The winners did everything right,” is a very common assumption – although it’s pretty stupid to believe in this ;-).

To make it short and simple: From winning a medal to relegation: Nearly everything is possible for our Swiss team in such a short tournament like the World Championship.

Do you dare to read something different? Here we go.

Harvard economist J.K. Galbraith had some wise words to tell: "There are two kinds of people predicting the future: Those who know nothing and those who don’t know that they know nothing.“