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Don’t look now, but Scottish skip Eve Muirhead has her Dunkeld crew red-hot and at 6-1 are second only to 7-0 Jennifer Jones and Canada at the 2010 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship.

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Canada’s Jennifer Jones and her Winnipeg team tossed a 96-per-cent

performance at the United States on Tuesday night at the Ford World women’s curling champi-onship.

The Winnipeg lineup was led by Jill Officer who was scored at 100 per cent on 20 second stones.

“I did?” reacted an astounded Officer upon being informed of the perfect night. “Yikes! It’s great that we can be sharp like that. Mind you, there were a lot of open ends so that helps.

“It’s important to get stronger as the week goes on and I’m glad we had a good team day today.”

The team, in fact, scored an aggregate 96 per cent with lead Dawn Askin at 98, third Cathy Overton-Clapham at 95 and skip Jones at 93, with one complete miss.

“I thought it was our best team game,” said Jones of the 6-4 de-cision. “I’m just happy, because Tuesday never has been our best day at these events. It’s great to be 7-and-0 but we could still be 7-and-4 so we have to keep chipping away.”

U.S. skip Erika Brown couldn’t have been blamed for feeling like she was hit by a truck.

Exhibiting a fighting spirit, the Yankee skipper stole a fifth-end go-ahead point when Jones flashed a hit that would have netted Canada four points and a 7-3 lead. Instead, it was 4-3 for the U.S. but the Jones team refused to reduce the pressure thereafter.

Canada was back in front with a deuce in the sixth, then watched Brown keep it open and blank the seventh and eighth ends before Jones stole the ninth and ran her foe out of rocks in the final exchange.

“We hung in, made some good shots, got a miss in the first half and we were right in there,” said Brown.

“I played to blank the seventh,

we couldn’t get anything going in the eighth and they put one in at the start of the ninth they didn’t mean to put in there. But, sure, we wanted to blank it home and try for two in the 10th, why not? Then we got an untimely miss.

“We were doing what we wanted to do for a while. We just didn’t quite make it to that last hammer.”

The loss dropped the U.S. to 5-and-2 with Scotland’s idle Eve Muirhead sandwiched in be-tween the North American teams in the standings at 6-and-1.

Brown fired a last-rock missile that unhinged a near-welded freeze applied by Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont with her final stone and recorded a winning deuce in a critical 6-5 afternoon decision.

The hot-and-cold Danes took a 3-1 lead with a third-end triple-count and led 3-2 in the fifth

with the possibility of a multiple in the works until Brown played a button freeze on her own stone and watched Dupont’s final brick over-curl to leave the issue square.

“We were in a lot of trouble but we managed to take a five-ender away from them,” said Brown. “My stone was hanging out there to for her to whack away at it but she jammed and we ended up stealing one which was great.”

Denmark still controlled the match through to the 10th but the Yanks succeeded in scatter-ing two 12-foot hangers support-ing a shot rock across the rings. Dupont played two freezes, the second better than the first, but Brown managed to spring both enemy stones for the winning deuce.

“I wasn’t sure I could move her far enough on the last one, to be quit honest,” Brown said of a

lengthy pre-shot deliberation.“I had to hit it real thin and

I wasn’t sure it was there. The alternative was a draw for one and an extra end. It was close. I think I almost clipped out one of my own with the shooter which rolled out.

“It wasn’t our best game but it just shows we’re really resilient to hang in there.”

Jones required some key morning shots and a heaping helping of skipping guile to ward off Denmark.

The Copenhagen team, skipped by Angelina Jensen with Madeleine Dupont throwing fourth stones, twice battled from behind to tie the match after Canada jumped out to a 3-0 lead in three ends.

But Canada’s last go-ahead deuce in the ninth end proved decisive in an eventual 9-6 vic-tory. Denmark failed to manu-facture the necessary equal-

izers in the 10th end and when Dupont was off-target on an attempted raise-double.

The win partially avenged a pair of losses the Jones team from Winnipeg suffered at the hands of the same Danish team a year ago in Gangnueng, Korea.

Jones lost 7-5 in the round robin and 7-6 to Denmark in the bronze medal match.

“That game was very simi-lar to the round-robin game in Korea,” recalled Jones. “We controlled it, then let them back in it and lost.

“It really was a heart-breaking loss because we lost a spot in the (Page) One-Two playoff as a result.

“It really did remind me of that but, this time, we made the shots in the last end that we missed before.”

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unbeaten, Scots just one back

Canadian second Jill Officer curled 100% Tuesday against the United States, while the team combined curled an impressive 96% in a 6-4 win over the United States to go 7-0.

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In other late matches, Sweden’s Cecilia Ostlund (4-3) stunned Anna Sidorova (4-3) of Russia 10-3, Norway’s Linn Gith-mark (2-5) clobbered rookie Latvia (1-6), skipped by Iveta Stasa-Sarsune of Jelgava, by an 11-2 score, and Switzerland (2-5), skipped by Corinne Bourquin, stole four points en route to a 7-4 conquest of Japan’s Moe Meguro (1-7).

Scotland advanced to 6-and-1 record with a 10-1 breeze against rookie Latvia in the afternoon. Russia dropped Germany’s Andrea Schoepp 7-4 when Schoepp’s last runback failed to curl with a tying deuce the target. And China’s Bingyu Wang (3-4) persevered in a long-chance campaign to reach the playoffs with four losses, stealing five points in an 11-6 decision over strug-gling Japan, skipped by Moe Meguro who had second Mari Motohashi throwing last stones.

Muirhead persisently remained on Cana-da’s tail in the morning with a 7-3 conquest of Norway’s Linn Githmark.

Scotland will play Canada in Thursday night’s final round-robin draw.

“Canada’s definitely the favourite here, playing on home ice with home support,” said Muirhead. “We just have to keep our heads high and keep playing the way we are — focusing on a game at a time.”

In other Tuesday morning matches, Scho-epp remained in contention by hammering youthful Sweden 9-2 and China’s Wang squeaked past reeling Switzerland 6-5.

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Defending champion Bingyu Wang and her Chinese squad posted two wins Tuesday to go to 3-4.

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Jennifer Jones says that they’re playing a little more defensively than ever before and suggests their Canadian coach Renee Sonnenberg may have something to do with it.

Sonnenberg admits she has tried to steer the Danish women’s curling team on a more level course and the results to date have been mixed

Rodger Schmidt, who is currently the U.S. national team coach, was the coach of the Italians for years and still works with the Austrians, shakes his head when asked about preparations to play against the Danes,

“I tell our girls I have no idea, because I really haven’t a clue what they (Den-mark) are going to do,” says Schmidt, who resides in Switzerland, is a Sas-katchewan native and reached the 1967 World men’s final skipping Germany.

“They not only play entire games dif-ferently, they play ends differently.”

The consensus on Angelina Jensen’s Danish delights from Copenhagen, with the Dupont sisters tossing the last four rocks, the skip throwing second and her sister Camilla leading off, is that they form a unit that comes at you right off the wall.

It’s a flaky, goofy, wacky bunch, uncon-ventional to say the least, and, collec-tively, they can be high as a kite or lower that sub-basement low.

“They can come at you, or not come at you, or come at you at weird times,” says Sonnenberg, a two-time Scotties com-petitor.

“They have toned down their aggres-sion a bit but they’re not afraid to go for it. It’s just that their timing is a little different.

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“I’m teaching a little more defence with this team. When I first joined them, they played a lot of do-or-die shots. Like, put it anywhere in the ballpark and hope for a mistake. Often, the result could have been a flip of the coin.

“Now they’re controlling more games. They have challenged me on it. They’ve said to me, ‘The Canadian way is not al-ways the best way’. And I agree with that, sometimes, depending on the opposition.

“Unpredictability is sometimes a good thing. But in terms of execution and game plan at this level you have to take some of that inconsistency and unpredictability out.

“It has a lot to do with their emotions

out there. Against Canada (Tuesday morn-ing), they were on a more event keel.”

Schmidt still wags his noggin in wonder.“Denmark has the sign on some teams

and not on others,” he says. “My Austrian girls have no trouble with them, they beat them all the time, and I can’t figure that out, either.”

Strange, indeed, considered Denmark women are ranked No. 5 in the world and Austria is ranked No. 18.

Says veteran Germany skip Andrea Schoepp:

“When I learned curling, my first coach Otto Danieli used to talk about garbage curling. He taught us all the offensive moves, front guard, corner guard and he’d tell us about garbage curling which was, like, all-offence. Go behind everything or anything, taking risks.

“Sometimes Denmark plays that way, more than offensive. Sometimes they play controlled offence, but sometimes it’s the high way losing or the high way winning. And sometimes it is good for them and sometimes it isn’t.”

The Danish foursome has made a habit of winning big, but also losing big.From Page 4

Denmark:‘Unpredictable’

Sonnenberg’s future uncertainRenee Sonnenberg’s future with the

Jensen foursome post-Swift Current is uncertain regardless of the team’s perfor-mance, she says.

“We have no plans. This trip to Swift Cur-rent was a little bonus, it wasn’t even in the original plans.”

Sonnenberg first coached Madeleine Du-pont and her Danish team to a bronze at the 2007 World Juniors in Eveleth, Minn., hav-ing met them at the Ford Women’s Worlds in Grande Prairie in 2006.

She was then asked to coach the Danes at the Vancouver Olympics – the availability of the team’s regular coach was at issue.

Despite the fact next year’s Worlds will be held in the Danish west-coast seaport of

Esbjerg (pop. 115,000), uncertainty is the buzz word around the camp.

Tuesday, after dropping a tough 6-5 decision to Erika Brown’s Americans, she described the foursome as “emotionally crushed.”

Sonnenberg, who has twice represented Alberta at The Scotties, is still a competi-tive curler. She says her career took a “back seat” to the coaching opportunity this year, but next season is certainly up in the air.

“As far as I know, we’re done on Sunday and we haven’t talked about anything else because were focusing on performing well here.”

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game-a-day in 1983 at the Worlds in Regina,” he recalls when asked how it all started.

“It was on the public cable channel. I was working with John Bad-ham.

“The next year, Gordon Craig started TSN. They liked what I’d done in Regina so I sent in a tape, had an audition and they hired me. Actu-ally, I’d been working outside the Canadian Curling Association’ scope with my teach-ing, mainly curlers overseas, and I was told the CCA wasn’t happy with it but Craig told the CCA it wasn’t an issue with him.

“So that was an interesting start to it.”Turnbull’s first TSN event was the 1985

Mixed Nationals at Toronto Bayview, won by Steve Skillings of Victoria.

“That year, I think I worked with five dif-ferent hosts,” Turnbull recollects.

“Don Chevrier was with me at the Mixed. And, of course, Chevy pulled the old personal gag on me they always reserve for rookies. I’m sitting there and the light goes

on the camera and Chevy says: ‘Well, Ray, this looks like it will be the key game of the day, but, you know what? I don’t understand half of these (bleeping) shots.’ And I froze, because he’d sworn like that. Then everybody burst out laughing. Of course, they were putting me on.

“That year I also worked with Doug Maxwell and Badham, again, and I don’t recall the other guys. We did about five

events.”Now, some 25 years and roughly 3,000

curling shows later, Turnbull’s on-air quips are numbered.

He will retire from the broadcast booth following the Men’s World Championship in Cortina, Italy.

“I’m tired of all the travelling,” he explains. “I love doing it but I’ve had it. I have grandchildren in New Zealand and grandchildren in Germany and I have friends in the south and I have money. So I want to go and spend it before I pass away.”

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Turnbull’s broadcast ride has been great

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Turnbull is recalling his first encounter with TSN host Vic Rauter, who’s now a close friend.

“I think it was 1986,” says Turnbull. “I didn’t know who he was. He said, ‘Well, you and I have bet before’. And I said, ‘No, no, I’ve never seen you before’. He said, ‘Oh yeah you have’.

I was the head umpire at the Worlds (Silver Broom) in London, Ont., 1981, and this cam-era guy was running around out there on the ice during the national anthem. So, I trotted down there and told him to get off the ice be-fore I threw him off. He said that was the first time we met. The guy on the ice was Rauter.”

Linda Moore, the 1985 Canadian champion and 1988 demo gold medallist at the Calgary Olympics, joined the crew shortly thereafter.

“I’ll never forget the first year Linda joined us,” says Turnbull. “I think it was 1989. We were doing a broadcast and Vic got off on a tangent about the old days when guys brought their own rocks to the rink. And transported them for rink to rink to rink. And Linda turned to me and says, ‘Oh, you’ll remember that, Ray’. And I replied, “I hope your thighs grow”. She laughed, everybody laughed.

“And I’m lying in bed at three in the morning that night and the phone rings. It’s the late Jim Thompson, who at that time was TSN vice-president and soon to be president of the network. He says, ‘You know, Moosey, I was watch-ing the telecast today and that’s one of the funniest lines I’ve ever heard, I fell right off the couch laughing . . . and if you ever do it again you’re fired’.

“I guess the switchboard in To-ronto lit up like a Christmas tree, complaining about the remark they claimed was sexist.”

Not to mention, politically incorrect.“It’s been a great gig for me but it’s time,”

he says. “Time for a new voice. I‘ve aged a little bit, even though I’m very close to the game, I’ve never left it and I think I know it as well as anybody. But I’m still 70 years old.”

He has a sizeable insurance brokerage (two offices) in Winnipeg and is in the process of buying out his partner. His daughter eventu-ally will buy him out.

“It’s a wonderful business,” he says. “I want to spend a little more time watching it but I’m in a position now where I can go and do whatever I want. I still have my health, even though I had two stents put into my arteries in August. I still have my health and I want to do some different things. I’ve got a lot of them to do, pal.”

He recalls certain proud moments.“When I go through airports and other plac-

es and people say, ‘Oh, I know you, you’re the curling guy’. And I ask, ‘Oh, you’re a curler’? And they say, ‘No, I’ve never curled’.

And I think the fact that Vic and Linda and I have been able to spur the interest of so many non-curlers and generate an wider interest in the game — that is something I’m most proud of.”


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QUESTION OF THE DAYA total of 19 countries have qualified for play in the world women’s curl-ing championship. Name the seven countries that have previously com-peted but did not qualify this year.

1. Name a three-time Swiss cham-pion skip in the world women’s curl-ing championship who previously skipped a Ontario junior women’s champ at the Canadian champion-ship.2. When did she skip Switzerland in the Worlds and when did she skipped the Ontario junior team from which city?3. What were her team’s records at the Worlds and her team’s record at the Canadian Junior?4. Name a former U.S. women’s champion who played for three prov-inces in the Canadian senior wom-en’s championship.5. When did she skip the U.S. champ, from which precinct, to what record and where?6. Name the provinces for which she played in the Canadian Seniors?7. How about positions and years?8. Any winners in there?9. Two curlers who were world women’s championship finalists later won world senior women’s titles. Name them. (Hint: One was a skip at the Worlds, one a skip at the World Seniors, and one was a world champ as well as a world senior champ).10. Name the year of the last world women’s championship in which more than one team finished atop the round-robin standings and where was it held?11. Name the skips of the teams

finishing tied for first place and what were there records? 12. Who won the playoffs?

QofD: Austria, England, Finland, France, Korea, Netherlands, Italy.1. Janet (Omand) Hurlimann.2. She skipped the Swiss at the Worlds in 1991, 1992 and 1993 and skipped the Ontario junior champion from Sar-nia in 1987.3. Skipped the Swiss to (1991) 4-5, (1992) 6-4 and (1993) 3-6 records at the Worlds. Ontario’s 1987 Canadian junior record was 7-4.4. Maymar Gemmell.5. She skipped the U.S. champion team out of Houston, Tex., to a 1-9 record in 19916. Ontario, British Columbia, Northern Ontario7. Second for Ontario in 1990, lead for Ontario in 1993 and 1994, skip for Brit-ish Columbia in 1999, skip for Northern Ontario in 2002 and 2004.8. Won the Canadian senior title with Jill Greenwood in 1990 and 1993.9. Birgitta Torn, Nancy Kerr.10. 2008 in Vernon.11. Jennifer Jones, Mirjam Ott and Bingyu Wang at 9-and-2.12. Jones won the playoffs.

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Skip: Moe Meguro

Home: Aomori CityBegan curling at age: 9Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Office workerEmployer: Michinoku BanokAge: 25Place of birth: Minami FuranoMarital status: SingleFavourite food: NattoFavourite drink: Orange juiceCelebrity dream man: Hiroto KomotoAll-time favourite movie: Life is BeautifulLast movie she loved: NakumonkaTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: RingTen ends or eight? eight ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? TiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends. Competed in: 07, 08, Worlds, 00, 01 World Juniors, 06, 10 Olympics.

Third: Anna OhmiyaHome: AomoriBegan curling at age: 9Delivery: RightOccupation: Public servantEmployer: Aomori CityAge: 20Place of birth: KitamiMarital status: Single Favourite food: MeatFavourite drink: Coffee

Tattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Ring Ten ends or eight? Eight Tiebreakers or no tiebreak-ers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 08 Worlds, 02 World Juniors, 10 Olympics.

Second: Mari

MotohasjiHome: YokohamaBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: StudentAge: 23Marital sta-tus: SingleFavourite food: BBQFavourite drink: CoffeeTattooed? NoTen ends or eight? Eight ends. Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers.Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 04, 05, 07, 08 Worlds, 02 World Juniors, 06, 10 Olympics

Lead: Kotomi Ishizaki

Home: AomoriBegan curling at age: 19Delivery: Right.

Occupation/title: Office workerAge: 31Place of birth: AsahikawashiFavourite food: Pasta

Favourite drink: TeaCompeted in:

00, 03, 04, 08 Worlds, 02, 10 Olympics

Fifth: Mayo Yamaura

Home: AomoriBegan curling at age: 11Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Office worker

Employer: To-o Nippo Press

Age: 25Place of

birth: Miyota TownMarital status:

SingleFavourite food: Udon

Favourite drink: Earl Grey teaTattooed? No

Ten ends or eight? Eight ends Tiebreak-ers or no tiebreak-

ers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends

Competed in: 07, 08 Worlds, 10 Olympics

Coach: Shinya Abe

Home: AomoriOccupation/title: Curling coach

Employer: Japan Curling Asso-ciationDate of birth: Jan. 6, 1980

Place of birth: HokkaidoCoached: 06, 10 Olympics, 07, 08 Worlds

Japan Japanese club likes tea, udon, natto, and eight-end curling

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Skip: Andrea Schoepp

Home: Garmisch Partenkirchen Began curling at age: 9Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Teaching, tutoring math/physicsEmployer: Self employedAge: 45Place of birth: Garmisch Parten-kirchen Marital status: SingleSpouse/Partner: Dr. Jurgen Schart-mannFavourite food: CookiesFavourite drink: ProseccoCelebrity dream man: Erol SanderMost annoying celebrity: Jan UlrichAll-time favourite movie: No time for moviesTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: A bicycleTen ends or eight? Eight ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends. Competed in: 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 88, 92, 98, 10 Olympics.

Third: Melanie Robillard

Home: BrussellsBegan curling at age: 7Delivery: RightOccupation: Receptionist

Employer: Physical CenterAge: 27Place of birth: Sussex, N.B., CanadaMarital status: In a relationshipSpouse/Partner: Antonio De Mol-linedoFavourite food: PizzaFavourite drink: Diet CokeMost annoying celebrity: Heidi MontagAll-time favourite movie: National Lampoon’s Christmas VacationLast movie she loved: BrothersTattooed? Nope.Never leaves home without: Lip balmTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 08, 09 Worlds, 10 Olympics

Second: Monika Wagner

Home: Garmisch Partenkirchen Began curling at age: 14

Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Executive sec-retaryAge: 45Place of birth: Garmisch Parten-kirchen Marital status: SingleFavourite

food: Steak, fish, veg-

etablesFavourite drink: Sparkling wineCelebrity dream man: Sir Peter UstinovAll-time favourite movie: Gone With The Wind

Never leaves home without: KeysCompeted in: 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 95, 96, 97, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 88, 92, 98, 10 Olympics.

Lead: Stella Weiss

Home: Garmisch Partenkirchen Began curling at age: 17Delivery: Right.Occupation/title: StudentAge: 17Place of birth: CologneMarital status: SingleSpouse/Partner: LouisFavourite food: Choco-lateFavourite drink: Orange juiceCelebrity dream man: Johnny Depp, Robbie WilliamsAll-time favourite movie: 27 DressesLast movie she hated: Harry PotterTattooed? Never leaves home without: Keys

Ten ends or eight? 10 ends

Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 09 Worlds, 10 Olym-pics

Fifth: Corinna Scholz

Home: Ried BembeurenBegan curling at age: 11Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Industrial busi-ness management assistantEmployer: KaserebellenAge: 20Place of birth: SchongauMarital status: SingleSpouse/Partner: HarryFavourite food: WatermelonFavourite drink: JuiceCelebrity dream man: Gerard ButlerAll-time favourite movie: TitanicLast movie she loved: Wo Ist FredLast movie she hated: Lord of the RingsTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: CarTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers: Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 10 World Juniors, 10 Olympics

Coach: Ranier Schoepp

Home: Garmisch Partenkirchen Occupation/title: FinancialEmployer: Self Date of birth: March 14, 1958Place of birth: Garmisch Parten-kirchen Coached: 25 years.

Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen crew a mix of experience and youth

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Melanie Robillard (left) and Stella Heiss.

Kotomi Ishizaki (left) and Mari Motohashi.

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TODAYDRAW 128:30 a.m. Japan vs. Canada; Rus-sia vs. Norway; Latvia vs. Sweden; U.S.A. vs. Switzerland.

DRAW 131:30 p.m. Switzerland vs. Scotland; Sweden vs. Denmark; Norway vs. China; Canada vs. Germany.

DRAW 147:30 p.m. China vs. Russia; Germany vs. Japan; Scotland vs. U.S.A.; Denmark vs. Latvia.

THURSDAYDRAW 158:30 a.m. U.S.A. vs. Sweden; Latvia vs. Switzerland; Russia vs. Canada; Japan vs. Norway.

DRAW 161:30 p.m. Germany vs. Latvia; China vs. U.S.A.; Denmark vs. Japan; Scotland vs. Russia.

DRAW 177:30 p.m. Norway vs. Denmark; Canada vs. Scotland; Switzerland vs. Germany; Sweden vs. China.

FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. Tiebreaker (if one required).1:30 p.m. Tiebreakers (if two required).8 p.m. Page One-Two playoff (or Page Three-Four playoff) and Tiebreakers (if three required).

SATURDAY12 noon. Page Three-Four playoff (or Page One-Two playoff).5 p.m. Championship semi-final.

SUNDAY10 a.m. Bronze-medal match.3 p.m. Gold-medal championship final.

Standings(through Tuesday’s draws)

Draw 10 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TDenmark 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5USA* 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamDenmark 91 75 71 80 79 USA 94 80 66 87 82

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TScotland* 0 2 1 1 4 2 x x x x 10Latvia 1 0 0 0 0 0 x x x x 1%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamScotland 90 83/25 81 81 81 Latvia 73 79 65 50 67 Germany 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 4Russia* 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamGermany 90 81 89 84 86Russia 98 78 86 89 88

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TChina 0 2 0 0 1 3 2 0 3 x 11Japan* 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 x 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamChina 92 72 78 69 78Japan 86 75 64 39 66

Draw 11 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TLatvia 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 x x 2Norway* 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 4 x x 11%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamLatvia 80 67 81 47 69Norway 81 80 75 97 83

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TUSA* 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 x 4Canada 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 x 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamUSA 79 75 64 75 73Canada 98 100 95 93 96

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TJapan 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4Switzerland* 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamJapan 76 68 59 64 67Switzerland 83 61 81 75 75

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TRussia 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 x x x 3Sweden* 2 3 1 0 0 4 0 x x x 10%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamRussia 91 56/88 75 64 77Sweden 73 91 86 88 84 * —started game with the hammer

Draw Schedule

Team W LCanada 7 0Scotland 6 1U.S.A. 5 2Sweden 4 3Russia 4 3Germany 4 3

Team W LDenmark 3 4China 3 4Norway 2 5Switzerland 2 5Latvia 1 6 Japan 1 6

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TSweden 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 x x 2Germany* 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 3 x x 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSweden 78 75 78 57 72Germany 86 89 84 70 82

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TSwitzerland 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 5China* 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSwitzerland 94 86 79 81 85China 84 90 86 76 84

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TCanada* 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 9Denmark 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamCanada 94 90 88 85 89 Denmark 89 89 86 78 85 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TNorway 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 x x 3Scotland* 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 x 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNorway 90 82 76 71 80Scotland 81 92 93 89 89

Draw 9 Results

Ann Swisshelm, Nina Spatola and Laura Hallisey – Team U.S.A.


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Githmark’s Norwegians let the golfwear company that supplies the pants surprise them with the choice of pattern.

Skip Linn Githmark said her vice-skip Henriette Lovar was “laughing her brains out” when the team opened the package from the aptly named Loudmouth company upon arrival in Swift Current.

The Norwegian curlers also are equipped with more conservative pants from a curling sponsor to go with their white shirts, but Githmark, Lovar, Ingrid Stensrud, Kristin Skaslien and Kristin Tosse Lovseth wear the multicoloured pants with their red tops.

One of the pairs came in a men’s extra-large and were taken to a local tailor.

“They just sent us whatever they had -- what they thought would match,” the 27-year-old Githmark, an international affairs and language student, told Donna Spencer of Cana-dian Press.

“I like the colours. They’re man’s pants, you can see that. It’s kind of big, but it’s very, very comfortable.”

Norway’s curling teams at the Vancouver Paralympics showed up wearing teal green, blue, black and white plaid pants, also supplied by Loudmouth.

“I normally wear kind of flashy clothes, stockings what-ever,” Githmark said. “I never dress in pitch black.

“In Europe, curling is seen as kind of dull. Like, you like books if you play curling. When you do something that cre-ates attention in life (with) colours, (you) have fun.”

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Pants: Pattern a ‘surprise’

Linn Githmark calls line for Ingrid Stensrud (left) and Henriette Lovar.

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