Eye Opener March 27

Issue 8 – Saturday, March 27, 2010 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.

Issue 8 – Saturday, March 27, 2010 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.

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Sweden advances with win over U.S. ...See Page 3

German skip Andrea Schoepp handed Canada its second loss in Swift Current – both against her rink. As a result, Schoepp and her crew head to Sunday’s final, while Canada will play the winner of the Three-Four game Saturday night. ...See Page 2

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PAGE ONE-TWO PLAYOFF CANADA vs. GERMANY

Ninth-end explosion

Germany puts up a four-spot in nine en route to final berth

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year ago at Moncton at the Ford World men’s curling championship, Canada’s Kevin Martin beat everybody in town except . . . he couldn’t beat Scotland’s David Murdoch in three tries — in the round robin, in the Page One-Two playoff, and in the championship final.

Question today: Is Canada’s Jennifer Jones headed down the same path in the Ford World women’s slugfest?

Can Jones and her team lose three times to Germany’s Andrea Schoepp if, indeed, Canada gets another shot at Schoepp in the championship final?

Does lightning really and truly strike twice?

Skip Jones missed a last-rock out-turn tap-and-roll shot at a most inopportune moment Friday night at the Credit Union Iplex, yielding a huge four-ender in the ninth end to the veteran 45-year-old Schoepp, who is playing in her 17th world championship.

As are result, Schoepp executed an open last-rock hit for the killer count and won 6-3 in the championship’s Page One-Two playoff match.

The win moved Germany directly to Sunday’s championship final at 3 p.m.

Canada drops to the championship semifinal today at 5 p.m. against the winner of the Page Three-Four playoff slated for 12 noon today between Scotland’s 19-yearold Eve Muirhead and Sweden’s 22-yearold Cecilia (Cissi) Ostlund.

Canada led 3-2 playing the ninth end and appeared in a safe position until Schoepp executed an in-turn hit-and-slightroll in the four-foot with her first stone, leaving her foe the necessary of tap-androll with the other turn. But Jones’s rock over-curled through a hole and made no contact. “When I made my first rock I thought we had a good chance to get out of the end because everything was so close together,” reasoned the victorious German skip.

“I thought she (Jones) looked nervous in the beginning and I thought if we could survive the first five ends we’d have a good chance as it got close to the end.”

This will be Schoepp’s first world championship final since she won the title in 1988 by defeating Heather Houston of Thunder Bay .

“For the Euros we waited 10 years to get back,” said the skip who won the 2009 Euros in December. “For the Worlds it has been more than 20. I don’t know if I’ll make again in another 20.”

Jones stole a single for a 2-0 edge in the fourth end when Schoepp was heavy on a four-foot draw. But Schoepp took a point in the sixth and stole the tying point in the seventh when Jones nosed a hit and lost he point on a measure. The Canadian skip then nestled into the button with her last rock of the eighth after traversing a narrow port for the 3-2 advantage.

“If we rub at all we probably steal one,” said the 35-year-old Jones of her ninth-end miscue. “We needed to tap it a foot and roll in. That hole was barely big enough for a rock to go through. I don’t know, it was just bad luck.”

Canadian skip Jennifer Jones not entirely happy with one of her rocks as German lead Corinna Scholz (left) and third Melanie Robillard look on in the Page One-Two game Friday. off in the same day? Make the event one is never a bad thing if you win it.”

Jones followed the same route to win day shorter.”

Schoepp, who directed third Melanie her previous world title two years ago As it stands, she said her team will pracRobillard, second Monika Wagner and in Vernon, losing the Page One-Two to lead Corinna Scholz, said she wasn’t look- tise on the ice and “I will have a two-hour Bingyu Wang, then rebounding to win ing forward to a day while waiting to play bike ride, but don’t ask where”. twice.

Twenty-year-old lead Scholz played her the Sunday final.

“We’ve done it before,” she said. sixth game of the tournament at lead on “It’s a bad thing for me,” she said. “I “It’s OK to play in the semis, it’s not a Friday. Stella Heiss, 17, also has played like to play. I’m here for playing. I think bad thing to play in the semis. It’s just six times. they should look at cutting this event disappointing to lose after I thought we “Tomorrow we will decide who plays controlled the whole game and we had the down. A lot of teams are going to sit the final,” said Schoepp. “They are quite around for a couple of days waiting to get bad ninth end. It was sort of how it hapthe same. I think Stella has a better feeling home. pened in the round-robin game, too. for the weight and Corinna is a little better “I mean, why not play the game we “We have to play one extra game to get on the takeouts.” played today and the Three-Four playwhere we wanted to be. Playing the semi

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TIEBREAKER SWEDEN vs. USA

Cissi enjoying a Swede success

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weden’s 22-year-old Cecilia Ostlund loves the aggressive curling game. In her short career, she has a history of employing high-risk strategy.

Take the first end of Friday’s Ford World women’s curling championship tiebreaker against Erika Brown’s Americans.

Ostlund managed to get a pair of counters jammed in the four-foot with 15 rocks in play. The Swedish pair was so locked in, Ostlund merely tossed her last rock away, testing an outside draw away from the crockery.

There were rocks in play, in fact, in most ends until Sweden adopted a defensive mode after smacking the Yanks with a fourender in the sixth.

“I like that kind of game,” said an excited skip Ostlund, moments after clinching a wild 11-8 win over the U.S. to move into Saturday’s 12-noon Page Three-Four playoff against Scotland’s Eve Muirhead.

“I like a lot of rocks in play.

It’s a fun game. We know we can handle the risks involved now. I thought we played a really good game today. We gave it our all.”

The upcoming tussle will be a rematch of the world junior final at Ostersund in 2008. On the subject of wild, aggressive play, it backfired on Ostlund at that time

Swedish skip Cecilia ‘Cissi’ Ostlund (left) celebrates with her rink of Anna Carlsson, Anna Domeij andn Lotta Lennartson after beating the United States 11-8 in a tiebreaker Friday. when Muirhead stole a six-ender en route to a 12-3 waxing. The other side of that coin? Ostlund

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clobbered Muirhead 10-2 in the previous Page One-Two playoff game.

“She is aggressive, no question,” said Muirhead prior to a late Friday practice session.

“She’s a great player and to say that she’s the next Anette, I don’t think they’ve got that wrong.

They fight all the way and I’m sure this is going to be a good game.”

Muirhead, who won the roundrobin meeting of the two teams earlier in the week by a 7-3 score, agreed that experience might tell the tale.

“We have a lot of it on our team — Kelly (Wood) and Lorna (Vevers) who have been here about seven times and Anne Laird who won this in 2002. That should give us an advantage.

“We just have to get out and take it as it comes and see what happens.”

Ostlund tended to be a little more direct.

“It’s going to be a really tough game but I think if we play like we did today and maybe step it up just a bit we will take this next game.”

The Yanks answered Sweden’s opening deuce immediately but then failed to duck a three in the third end. It was square after five when Ostlund flashed her last looking at two.

“That one seemed to pick right out of my hand,” she said.

Then came the crushing four and the Swedes refused to relinquish control from there.

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Andrea Schoepp said Friday night she detected some nervousness in her opposition — skip Jennifer Jones of Canada.

“I don’t think it has anything to do with us,” said Schoepp, who always has been known for controversial comment during curling events.

“Maybe it has to do with the pressure of knowing she has been to the Worlds four times and only won it once,” surmised Schoepp.

“I think that’s in her head, not us. I don’t think she’s concerned about us because we are not the team that should be here . . . in her mind. I just don’t think she takes us seriously. I think they are all thinking we are not such good players.

“We have seen them a lot of times and we have played them a lot of times. For me, it feels like she behaves like a professional and we are persons who get around somewhere.

“It has nothing to do with a relationship between us, it’s something that’s going on the ice. It’s nothing personal. It’s just the way she’s looking at us as a curling team.”

Does Schoepp use this as a motivator?

“No, I don’t care what other teams think about me, or us. I just have to get myself and my team ready for the moments when we have to play good and to make the shot at the time when its necessary.”

Schoepp said she is known as “a bad person” back home, and not only in Germany.

“I’m really proud of Corinna (Scholz who divides time at the lead position) because she came into this team new this season and here we are in another final.

The first ‘spiel we played in she was nervous like crazy because everybody told her I was such a bad person.”

Why? “Maybe because I’m honest and mostly say what I’m thinking,” said Schoepp. “I think that could be a problem for some curlers.”

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It was a tough tiebreaker for Erika Brown and her American crew who gave up a couple of big ends to Cecilia Ostlund’s Swedish rink and chased the Scandinavians all afternoon.

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CISSI: Third Carlsson made big shots

“She made a lot of doubles,” said Brown. “Three, maybe four. But I guess I left them for her. She made some great shots.”

Ostlund’s key double in the sixth, an angle-raise effort, gave her the four-ender.

Her third player, Sara Carlsson, executed a brilliant double-peel in he last end to erase any hope Brown had for setting up the stolen deuce she required. Carlsson was scored at 90 per cent on her third rocks.

“We got lucky in the fifth when he missed and we thought it would give us some new life,” said Brown. “But, unfortunately, that lasted for about 15 rocks.

We made a lot of good shots but just not enough. Cissi came out real tough.”

Brown said she looks forward to a break from the game but will return to skip a team next year.

“Right now, 24 games in three weeks is a lot for my legs to handle,” she said.

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Is this where coach, China part ways?

With contract expiring June 30 and a four-year-cycle system, Dan Rafael’s days as national coach could be over

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everal national curling federations, including his home CCA, should be on the alert.

Montreal’s Dan Rafael, the guy who coached the Chinese women’s curling team to World gold, Universiade gold and Olympic bronze, most likely will be on the loose come July 1.

“I was asked the question at the Olympics,” Rafael recalls.

“Are you going to continue to coach the Chinese after the Olympics? And the answer got me in so much trouble.

“I said, ‘I don’t know because after June 30, I’m done’.”

Which is to say, that’s when his contract runs out.

“Then the news hits the next day that I was quitting in the middle of the Olympics,” says Rafael. “Why? Because somebody heard me say, ‘I’m done’.

“We got phone calls from China saying, ‘We can’t have our national coach quitting in the middle of the Olympics’. I said, ‘What?’ They wanted to know, why would I do that? I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I told them, ‘I have values, I honour my contracts, things would have to be really bad for me to quit’. But not one story used the word ‘done’.

They all said I was quitting.”

Fact of the matter is, Chinese sports operate on the quadrennial basis in terms of preparing athletes, appointing bureaucrats, hiring coaches.

“Now the Winter Olympics are finished so at the end of this season all those administrative positions are up for reappointment, selection, whatever,” says Rafael.

“The guy who hires you can’t do so for longer than the four-year term. And there’s no point talking to him about extensions because he doesn’t know if he’ll be back beyond the same term.

“So, basically, at the end of June, I’ll be in the same position I was in before. Which is, by the time anybody might want to hire me, I may be gone somewhere else. Because, if somebody else offers me something else, I won’t wait.

Especially if its closer to home.

“I don’t want to travel like this any more. The first year alone, I was home 11 days in 10 months. This year, I haven’t calculated it but it’d be less. And, anyway, I don’t even know when those appointments in China are going to be made beyond July 1.”

Rafael has enjoyed meteoric success with the Bingyu Wang team.

And coaching is curling has become a big-time necessity. The banging on Rafael’s door should start any time now.

Check that. It already has started.

“Yeah, I have spoken to another country that’s closer to home than China,” he admits.

LARRY WOOD “And I was offered Eye Opener Editor Curling Quebec. I can always go back there.

To go back to China, there’d have to be a lot of changes.

Like you’re away from home for 10 months. You can’t pay a person enough for that.”

And not only that . . .

“It’s not just teaching them (Chinese) curling,” he says.

“There may be something that you want to change and there’s no chance in hell. You’re dealing with changing 5,000 years of culture overnight? They have to hire somebody who understands both the game and the nation’s culture — someone who wants to spend a lot of time trying to find a middle ground for everything.”

Rafael always has been concerned that some of his coaching methods weren’t getting through to the players.

“That’s par for the course,” he says. “You have a translator who’s a curling coach. And a lot of times the translation is directed to the player but, while the player will get the translation correctly, she may not get the meaning. In coaching, a lot of times we use metaphors and stories and they’ll get the story but they still won’t know what I’m talking about or why I’m telling them this story.

“I’ve been around some of the sports venues and summer competitions in Beijing, including the Olympics, watching the basketball and volleyball and whatever, and in every case when there was a Chinese team with a foreign coach they had a translator attached to that coach and that’s all

he did was translate. My problem always has been that my translation is handled by a Chinese curling coach. So does he actually try to convey the message I’m trying to give or does he filter it? I don’t know. I’ll never know because the situation isn’t going to change.

“I think they’ve felt threatened by me since Day One. They may get really insulted by this but . . . the feeling I get is there’s a lot of mistrust between players, between coaches, nobody trusts anybody.

“When I first started with them in September, 2007, they came to me with a pile of DVDs and they asked, ‘Can you analyze these games that we’ve played’? I said, ‘There’s quite a few of them there, I won’t be able to do them all now, can you get me copies’? And they looked at me rather aghast. ‘You want copies?’

“They’d never give me copies because they’re fearful I might go coach Japan and have all the Chinese secrets because I have copies of their games. Sure, that thinking is pretty funny to us. But I still haven’t seen a copy of any game. I have to get my own.

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There was a time, too, when the Chinese players were kept under a tight rein where the media was concerned.

“She (Wang) is a lot better at understanding now and she’d probably be a lot better yet if she was let loose,” says Rafael. “But they put a pretty tight rein on the girls. When I first started, any time somebody wanted to talk to them there were official concerns. None of the players were allowed to talk to the media for fear that they didn’t know what to say. They wouldn’t know what they were allowed to say, what was right, what was wrong, what could be misinterpreted. It’s a lot better now than it was then.”

Rafael was asked during The Olympics: ‘Do you think the Chinese system would work for Canadians’?

“I said, “Absolutely not! Do you think a Canadian would want to be told what time to get up in the morning, what time to eat breakfast, what time the bus is coming, what time to go to sleep? From that answer, I got in trouble, because they told me I shouldn’t be telling everybody how we manage our team. I said, ‘Yeah, but they asked me the question’. It seems that, whether it’s right or wrong, they don’t want people to know.”

Rafael’s next assignment, and it may be his last as Chinese coach, won’t be with the men’s team in Cortina d’Ampezzo next week. He’ll be in Heilongjiang province in the north of China, in the big cities of Harbin, Qiqihar and Daqing. Apparently the province has put pressure on the Chinese Curling Association to hold a clinic for icemakers, officials, umpires and coaches.

“The problem I probably got into — and I learned this the first year — is that I signed for more than one year,” Rafael says. “I met a speed skating coach over there from Calgary who asked me how long I was going to do this, and I told him, ‘two years’. He said, ‘Oh. Normally we only sign for one year at a time’.

“In hindsight, I think that’s the better way to do it. The thing is, you sign for two you have no control, you have to wait out your two years. Or quit.

And if you quit you get a bad reputation.

“It’s also monetary. In any other country that I know, if you win the world championship, the world university games and so on, you’d be in line for a bonus of some sort. But not with China. The bonus in China is for Olympic China’s coach Dan Rafael of Montreal explains strategy to Bingyu Wang and her rink. gold. Nothing else. You win bronze, it means nothing.”

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The 2010 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship promises to be one of the best parties to ever hit Swift Current. But before you jump into the fun at the various events, make plans for a safe ride home.

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12. How about the year (years) of the junior championships and the positions they played.

2. Robillard was born in Sussex, N.B. and plays third for Germany.

11. Name any player in the current world women’s championship (including alternates) who previously won a world junior women’s championship.

3. Debbie McCormick

10. That was in what year and where?

4. 35 wins.

9. Name the first Canadian skip to lose four games at the world women’s curling championship.

5. Elisabet Gustafson.

8. They’re home nations?

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6. Sweden.

7. Name four other skips who have twice won 10 or more games at the world women’s championship.

7. Marilyn Bodogh, Anette Norberg, Sandra Schmirler, Bingyu Wang

6. Her home nation?

8. Bodogh and Schmirler (Canada), Norberg (Sweden), Wang (China).

5. Name the only skip in the history of the world women’s curling championship to win 10 or more games three times at the championship?

9. Lindsay Sparkes.

4. How many wins?

10. 1979 at Perth, Scotland.

3. Name the U.S. skip who has compiled the most WCC victories.

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11. Linn Githmark, Liudmila Privivkova, Ekaterina Galkina, Margarita Fomina, Sarah Reid, Eve Muirhead (3).

2. The place of birth in Canada and the nation and position played?

12. Githmark skipped the 2004 world junior champ, Privivkova (skip), Galkina (third), Fimina (second) won the 2006 world junior title, Reid skipped the 2007 world champion, Muirhead played third in 2007 and skipped the 2008 and 2009 world junior champions.

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THE ROUND-ROBIN STATISTICAL STORY

Draw 1 2 3 4

Teams 1 Canada ** 79 ** 91 2 Scotland 82 ** 83 ** 3 Germany 83 ** 81 ** 3 China 82 ** 75 ** 3 Denmark 81 ** 79 ** 6 Sweden ** 75 ** 83 7 Russia 79 88 ** 65 8 Switzerland ** 71 ** 87 8 United States 75 83 ** 74 10 Norway ** 75 ** 79 11 Japan 75 82 ** 59 12 Latvia 65 77 ** 65 ** = did not play

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** 86 84 89 79 ** 77 89 85 ** 74 82 89 ** 82 84 81 ** 78 85 ** 87 72 72 78 79 ** ** ** 82 67 85 84 77 ** ** ** 76 77 80 73 79 ** ** 68 69 ** **

** 81 86 78 79 ** 88 ** 82 ** 66 67

96 ** ** ** ** 84 77 75 73 83 67 69

91 ** ** ** ** 92 78 79 80 76 75 81

81 76 80 80 85 84 ** 73 ** 84 ** **

** 83 81 82 84 ** 81 ** 80 ** 79 57

90 ** ** ** ** 76 77 82 72 76 81 80

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Dupont

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Draw 1 2 Jennifer Jones CAN ** 68 Eve Muirhead SCO 87 ** Andrea Schopp G ER 75 ** Erika Brown USA 64 84 Bingyu Wang C HN 65 ** Cecilia Ostlund S WE ** 68 Corinne Bourquin SUI ** ** Madeleine Dupont D EN 73 ** Anna Sidorova R US 58 88 Linn Githmark N OR ** 63 Moe Meguro JPN 81 66 Binia Feltscher SUI ** 54 Iveta Stasa-Sarsune LAT 75 78 Mari Motohashi JPN ** **

** 91 81 86 84 81 75 82 76 75 ** 72 82 ** ** 75 81 ** ** 74 78 ** 78 **

87 82 81 81 81 80 79 78 78 77 74 71

Draw Team 1 2 + Jennifer Clark-Rouire CAN ** ** + Binia Feltscher SUI ** ** 1 Dawn Askin CAN ** 91 + Jessica Schultz USA ** ** 2 Ekaterina Galkina RUS 99 95 2 Yan Zhou C HN 94 ** 4 Camilla Jensen DEN 95 ** + Corinna Scholz G ER ** ** + Marisa Winkelhausen SUI ** ** 5 Laura Hallisey U SA 74 77 5 Lotta Lennartsson S WE ** 80 5 Anne Laird S CO 77 ** 5 Zanda Bikse LAT 71 78 5 Sandra Ramstein-Attinger SUI ** 86 10 Kristin Skaslien NOR ** 79 10 Kotomi Ishizaki JPN 79 82 10 Stella Heiss GER 81 ** + Anna Ohmiya JPN ** ** + Dace Munca LAT ** **

Canada led the round-robin in team percentage with 87.

3 ** ** ** ** ** 89 77 ** ** ** ** 95 ** ** ** ** 81 ** **

SECONDS 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Jill Officer C AN ** 83 ** 96 73 ** 78 74 90 ** 100 80 80 ** Monika Wagner GER 89 ** 83 ** 81 93 ** 75 89 81 ** ** 80 78 Angelina Jensen DEN 78 ** 77 ** 86 91 ** 80 89 75 ** ** 89 85 Lorna Vevers SCO 83 ** 83 ** 89 70 ** 72 92 83 ** ** 79 81 Nkeiruka Ezekh RUS 80 89 ** 67 ** 89 84 ** ** 7 8 56 93 ** 81 Ann Swisshelm U SA 86 95 ** 68 ** 85 80 ** ** 8 0 75 81 ** 79 Ingrid Stensrud N OR ** 81 ** 88 69 ** 70 84 82 ** 80 85 88 ** Qingshuang Yue CHN 81 ** 77 ** 75 92 ** 81 90 72 ** ** 75 76 Anna Domeij SWE ** 73 ** 82 71 ** 86 63 75 ** 91 94 88 ** Mayo Yamaura JPN ** ** ** ** ** ** 91 ** ** 7 5 68 ** ** ** Mari Motohashi JPN 70 89 ** 70 ** 89 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Heike Schwaller SUI ** 61 ** 90 73 ** 76 91 86 ** 61 84 65 ** Ieva Krusta LAT 56 78 ** 79 ** 67 63 ** ** 7 9 67 81 ** ** Anna Ohmiya JPN ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 75 ** 69 Liudmila Privivkova R US ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 88 60 ** ** Una Grava-Germane LAT ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 67 Sarah Reid SCO ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 2 5 ** ** ** ** ** = did not play + = player unranked due to insufficient games

Overton-Clapham

1 2 3 4 4 4 + 7 8 9 10 10 12 +

TEAM PERCENTAGES 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 AVG

90 ** ** 86 ** 76 ** 78 79 89 70 86 78 ** ** 73 74 ** 77 ** ** ** 81 ** 81 88 ** 78 ** ** ** ** ** **

88 81 75 90 ** ** 80 80 63 ** ** 83 ** ** ** ** **

Draw 1 2 1 Cathy Overton-Clapham CAN ** 76 2 Sara Carlsson S WE ** 79 3 Denise Dupont D EN 77 ** 4 Melanie Robillard G ER 85 ** 4 Kelly Wood SCO 83 ** + Liudmila Privivkova R US 78 83 6 Corinne Bourquin SUI ** 80 + Marisa Winkelhausen SUI ** ** 7 Yin Liu C HN 86 ** 8 Henriette Lovar NOR ** 75 + Binia Feltscher SUI ** ** 9 Maragrita Fomina R US ** ** 10 Nina Spatola U SA 75 77 + Mari Motohashi JPN ** ** + Moe Meguro JPN ** ** 11 Una Grava-Germane LAT 56 75 + Anna Ohmiya JPN 70 89 + Ieva Krusta LAT ** **

3 ** ** 83 68 69 ** ** ** 73 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

4 5 6 7 ** ** ** 1 00 ** ** ** ** 88 92 ** 95 90 ** ** ** 73 ** 75 91 ** 89 97 ** ** 88 89 ** ** 88 ** ** ** ** ** ** 80 ** 90 80 83 85 ** 93 ** 77 89 ** ** ** 80 97 89 89 ** 86 81 73 ** 76 61 ** 86 ** ** ** 75 ** ** ** ** 82 50 ** ** 57

LEADS 8 9 1 0 11 12 13 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 94 * * ** ** ** 90 94 * * 98 98 84 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 9 8 91 88 ** 89 84 92 ** ** 81 88 89 91 ** ** 93 80 ** 9 0 ** ** ** 75 ** ** 83 90 ** ** ** 9 4 79 81 ** 83 78 ** 73 92 81 66 81 90 ** ** 80 ** ** ** 80 90 ** 63 ** ** ** ** 70 92 90 ** 81 79 87 ** ** ** ** 93 ** ** 86 * * ** ** 81 ** ** 8 6 76 ** ** ** ** 7 3 ** ** **

14 ** ** ** ** 97 90 83 88 ** 90 ** 80 83 ** ** 94 ** ** **

15 16 17 ** ** ** ** ** ** 89 ** 90 ** ** ** 80 86 ** ** 88 84 ** 86 77 ** ** 80 85 ** ** 80 79 ** 81 ** 84 ** 84 93 93 ** ** ** ** 88 85 ** 76 80 85 ** ** 89 ** ** ** ** ** 75 **

AVG 85 83 82 82 81 80 80 79 78 78 78 77 74 74 74 67 25

Officer

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Jensen

Vevers

4 5 6 7 88 91 ** 79 92 83 ** 88 ** 84 79 ** ** 78 86 ** ** 83 63 ** ** ** ** ** 94 71 ** 88 ** ** ** ** ** 78 77 ** 86 69 ** 80 ** ** ** ** 66 ** 70 72 74 ** 74 69 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 78 61 ** 59 69 56 ** 75 ** ** ** ** **

Thirds 8 9 1 0 11 12 13 95 88 * * 95 89 86 77 78 * * 86 91 85 80 86 71 ** ** 92 66 84 8 9 ** ** 80 84 93 81 ** ** 73 ** ** ** ** ** ** 63 ** ** ** ** 73 ** 79 ** ** ** ** 74 86 78 ** ** 78 78 76 ** 75 73 88 ** ** ** 81 70 ** ** ** 8 6 75 68 ** ** ** 6 6 64 79 ** ** ** ** 59 66 ** ** ** 6 4 ** ** ** ** ** 6 5 81 78 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

14 ** ** 81 85 83 ** ** ** 80 ** ** 80 80 80 ** ** ** 48

15 16 17 86 ** 96 70 ** 77 ** 64 90 ** 78 78 ** 84 83 ** ** ** 91 ** 67 ** ** ** ** 75 73 70 ** 73 ** ** ** 80 70 ** 71 80 ** 85 73 ** ** ** ** 71 79 ** ** ** ** ** ** **

** = did not play + = player unranked due to insufficient games 3 ** 85 91 ** 63 ** ** 78 ** ** ** ** ** **

4 5 6 7 91 78 ** 93 ** 88 93 ** ** 59 85 ** 71 ** 89 80 ** 70 89 ** 76 74 ** 81 ** ** ** ** ** 80 66 ** 56 ** 79 69 63 59 ** 78 50 ** 41 ** 75 76 ** 76 70 ** 67 68 ** ** ** 63

Skips 8 9 10 11 12 13 76 85 ** 93 95 74 88 89 81 ** ** 74 75 70 84 ** ** 79 ** ** 8 7 75 79 ** 84 76 69 ** ** 86 67 57 ** 88 91 82 ** 81 ** 75 72 ** 66 78 80 ** ** 65 ** ** 8 9 64 79 ** 53 71 ** 97 68 73 ** ** ** 64 64 ** 44 ** ** ** ** 83 ** ** 5 0 47 74 ** ** ** 3 9 ** ** **

** = did not play + = player unranked due to insufficient games

14 ** 89 72 69 82 ** ** 85 65 ** 75 ** 31 **

15 16 17 93 ** 92 ** 79 78 ** 82 87 66 76 ** ** 64 89 80 ** 64 ** ** ** ** 79 59 68 81 ** 70 ** 68 82 78 ** 71 ** 62 76 71 ** ** ** **

AVG 100 94 91 90 89 89 87 85 84 83 83 83 83 83 82 82 82 81 64

AVG 85 84 78 76 76 76 76 73 72 69 68 68 66 51

Jones

Muirhead

Schoepp

Brown

AVG 88 82 81 80 80 80 79 79 78 77 76 74 73 73 71 70 70 48

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T Sweden* 2 o 3 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 11 USA 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 8 %age Lead Second Third Skip Team Sweden 84 71 90 74 80 USA 79 66 68 64 69

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Final Round Robin Standings Team 1. Canada 2. Germany

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Draw Schedule

12 noon. Page Three-Four playoff Scotland vs. Sweden 5 p.m. Championship semifinal. Canada vs. winner of Page Three-Four game.

SUNDAY

10 a.m. Bronze-medal match. Semi-final loser vs. loser of Page Three-Four playoff.

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6 7 8 0 0 1 1 1 0 Third 89 76

9 10 T 0 x 3 4 x 6 Skip Team 82 84 91 79

3 p.m. Gold-medal championship final. Germany vs.

Semi-final winner.

USA second Ann Swisshelm (left) and lead Laura Hallisey sweep in the tiebreaker against Sweden Friday. Sweden advanced with an 11-8 win.

German third Melanie Robillard throws while Canadian lead Dawn Askin looks on in the Page One -Two game.

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year from now, the World women’s curling championship will resurface in Esbjerg, Denmark.

Where?

Esbjerg is a port city of 115,000 on the west coast of Jutland, the peninsula that forms the bulk of the Danish country. It’s the fifth largest city in the country.

Denmark never before has staged a world championship, women’s or men’s. But this one — March 19-27, 2011 — promises to be a treat of a different order.

For the record, the city of Esbjerg was established in 1868 as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark’s most important North Sea harbour. In 1874, Esbjerg was connected by rail to Fredericia and Varde.

The city has been voted “City of the Year” twice. The first time was in 1997 where the city was awarded the title because of the corporate work between public and private companies. In 2006, the city was again awarded “City of the Year” honours. The second award was given due to the work and support of young talents. The talents in sport, artwork and music have been given good support and given the best facilities to develop their talent even further.

The city holds an annual music festival spanning two weekends during mid-August and is focused around the central Torvet Square. The festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2006.

The Esbjerg airport is one of the most accessible in Denmark, just 10 kilometres from the city centre.

Close to Esbjerg you will find vast expanses of beaches, nature experiences, amusement parks and medieval towns. In fact, Denmark’s oldest town Ribe is situated only 30 kilometres distant.

The city is loaded with restaurants, cafés, bars and discotheques. It’s Performing Arts Centre is designed by the world-famous architect of the Sydney Opera House, Jørn Utzon. In 1996, Denmark’s largest swimming stadium and tropical swimscape opened in the centre of the city.

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