March 23 Eye Opener

Issue 4 – Tuesday, March 23, 2010 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.

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Clutch shot means 5-0

Canada atop table, Scotland, U.S.A sitting one back LARRY WOOD The Eye Opener

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t was just what the medic ordered for Canada’s Jennifer Jones. A last-rock victory.

Winnipeg’s Jones hit for a key four-ender in the sixth end to overhaul a three-point deficit and advance to a thrilling 10-9 victory Monday night over defending champion China at the Ford Worlds women’s curling championship.

“A close game is always fun to play,” said Jones, “and we haven’t had one that’s gone to last rock. You want to have to make a couple of last rocks to win games and we had to do that.”

The win left Canada at 5-and-0 in the tournament, one game in front of Scotland’s Eve Muirhead and Erika Brown’s U.S. champions.

Scotland won its third in a row, 7-3 over Sweden’s young and talented Cecilia Ostlund in a replay of the 2008 world junior championship final.

Sweden dropped to 3-and-2 alongside Germany, Denmark and Russia.

Jones needed an in-turn raise takeout to score two in the 10th end for the critical win after Chinese skip Bingyu Wang missed her first shot completely and eliminated only one Canadian stone trying for a double with her last stone.

“It was a big win for us,” said Jones afterward. “It keeps the momentum going.

To not play our best and still come out with a win is good. You want a couple of those along the way.”

Wang was disappointed in losing what she thought was her team’s best game of the week.

“I feel so sad about this game,” she said.

“We had so many chances to win that game. I really think it was a good game for us. But we should have been careful of some little things.”

China scored two in the third for a 3-2 lead and stole singles in the fourth and fifth ends to cement control. But Wang flashed in the sixth leaving Jones a free draw for a go-ahead four.

Wang then stuck trying to blank the seventh and Jones went up two in the eighth only to surrender three in the ninth. Wang actually had a chance for four with her last rock but rolled her shooter too far.

Trailing by one in the 10th, Jones succeeded in getting two rocks counting behind a guard and made them stand up for the decision.

“It’s great for us and builds confidence,” said Jones. “It’s good heading into the latter part of the week.”

Wang added: “We need our confidence so it’s better to

U.S. skip Erika Brown and her crew had a good day winning twice over Germany and Norway. look at the good side than the bad. We still have a chance at the playoffs but we only want to think about the next win.”

Muirhead was ecstatic with her teams’ third straight powerhouse performance.

“We made the right shots at the right times, all of us executed well and we had control with the hammer and kept them to one without.”

That’s the classic strategy.

“It’s nice to get a jump early and that’s what we’ve been doing,” added the 19-year-old Scottish skip. “We’re a pretty good team with the lead. If it goes to the

last end we have to deal with it. But we like to take control and then just keep the four-foot open when we have the hammer.”

Elsewhere on the nightshift, Germany’s Andrea Schoepp thumped Norway 10-4 and hot-and-cold Denmark whipped Switzerland 8-3.

Jones added another digit to the winning record in the afternoon, doubling the score 12-6 on rookie Latvia in a lopsided affair.

Canada hit for three in the first end, added a third-end deuce and a fifth-end three for a runaway 8-2 lead. The Latvians

hung in the game and cracked a three of their own in the eighth end to pull within three points but Canada got those points back in the ninth and the final end wasn’t completed.

The U.S. team from Madison, Wis., won its third and fourth games of the tournament — an 8-7 triumph over Norway’s Linn Githmark in the afternoon and a 12-8 conquest of Germany in the morning with four in the final end.

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Canada gets 4-1 U.S.A tonight

“We’re quite pleased to be 4-and-1,” said Brown, who is representing a nation that hasn’t produced a strong international showing in two seasons.

“We have lots of games left,” added Brown, who will collide with Canada’s Jones tonight at 7:30 p.m. CT. A steal of two in the sixth end catapulted the Yanks in front of the hot-shooting Norwegians 5-3 but Githmark managed three in the ninth to tie the match playing the 10th.

“Every game here is tough,” said Brown, who has required last shots in three games.

“But we played well today, we got to play a lot of finesse shots, a lot of down-weight shots and that’s great when you can get more aggressive and give yourself the opportunity to make huge shots. It’s more fun, more interesting and it gets you ready for the end of the week.”

Surprising Russia, with 19-year-old Anna Sidorova skipping, Scotland’s Eve Muirhead and Erika Brown’s U.S. team from Madison, Wis., each logged their third victories at the Ford World women’s curling championship Monday morning.

The Russians upended hot-andcold Denmark 10-4, Scotland

hauled out the complete arsenal en route to an 11-2 blitzing of Japan and In the latter tilt, German skip Andrea Schoepp attempted a last-rock bury for the win but the rock was vulnerable beside a U.S. stone and Brown simply erased both rocks and counted not only her shooter but three obscure secondary counters in the outer rings.

“It was a pretty big target,” said Brown. “A good way to end something of an adventure.”

The Yanks posted a third-end four-spot, then gave back the four in the sixth. Germany played a relentless come-from-behind game until the final exchange.

“We were a little down after yesterday’s loss (to Latvia),” said Brown. “But we decided to put that behind us and get right back it. I think we can use this win as a springboard to some good things.”

Idle Canada leads the field with a 3-and-0 record and faces rookie Latvia (1-3) in Draw Six this afternoon.

In one other morning tiff, defending champion China shook off a three-game losing streak and walloped Latvia 8-2.

The Scots opened with three against Japan and continued to bombard Moe Meguro’s troops with a steady barrage.

“Once again we played the technical shots really well,” said the 19-year-old Muirhead.

“We really got on top of them early and we had good stone placement. We’re playing the way we know we can play. We’re just playing shots, basically.”

The Russians won their third in a row in the morning with a young skip who directed her

Swedish skip Cecilia Ostlund, lead Anna Domeij and third Sara Carlsson. Tre Kronor split Monday, beating Japan before losing to Scotland. first teehead traffic in women’s play at the Olympic Games in Vancouver. On the heels of an opening three, the Moscow team doubled the lead in the third after a blank second with a stolen three-ender.

“We are curling better than before,” said Sidorova, who started this tournament as the Russian skip in place of relative veteran Liudmila Privivkova. “Now we’re at our best. We’re gaining confidence. We know we can

play and we know we can win.”

Unfortunately for the Russians, they bowed 7-6 to Binia Feltscher of Switzerland in an afternoon extra-ender. Sweden won its third in five starts, 8-5 over Moe Meguro (1-4) of Japan.

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or most of this decade, curling’s warning bell has been sounded — the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.

Except, with the exception of a world junior breakthrough in 2006, the Russians have been disappointing.

They have appeared in the Ford World women’s championship eight times since the Millennium but have won more than they’ve lost only once, when Liudmila Privivkova skipped her first Russian women’s team to a 7-and-5 record in 2005 at Paisley, Scotland.

The aggregate won-lost record heading into the current skirmish is 29 wins, 41 losses, no medals.

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Russia: Experiments continue Privivkova won the world junior in 2006 but it’s been all downhill ever since and the blonde skip now is out of favour with coach Olga Andrianova and, following two games as vice-skip at the Credit Union Iplex this week, has been demoted to the bench.

“She cannot do now what she has done,” says the veteran Andrianova in broken English. “I don’t know why. She makes mistake and mistake and mistake.

“It is hard on her, I have been with her for years, and it is hard on me because I know she is not happy.”

Privivkova has been listed as Russia skip at five of the last six Ford Worlds but was removed from the lineup as lastrock thrower in the middle of the Olympic Games at Vancouver, too.

“It is difficult for me,” she says. “It is difficult for the team. I don’t like it when I don’t play.”

Andrianova has chosen to experiment with 19-year-old Anna Sidorova skipping and throwing last bricks at the Iplex.

At the Olympics, she became last-rock thrower late in the tournament.

“I was nervous,” admits Sidorova of being tossed in to throw last rocks in the Olympics, amazingly her first competition at the position above juniors.

“But it was exciting, too.”

Andrianova has been criticized in some quarters for excessive changes to her batting orders. In a country like Canada, players wouldn’t stand for it. In other places, they might consider it a detriment to team dynamics.

None of this matters for the coach of Team Russia. She has embarked on another four-year cycle and experimentation is the name of the game. But experimentation without a lot of pressure on the team or the coaching job.

As Andrianova points out, the Russian curlers don’t need to pile up points to qualify for the Games over the next four years. Russia already is qualified as the host nation in 2014.

“We don’t have a lot of competition in Russian curling,” Andrianova says. “We have 11 curlers and we form two teams for play outside Russia.”

Sidorova’s rise in that group of 11 has been meteoric. But Andrianova denies any pre-planning to favour a youth move-

Coach Olga Andrianova ment.

“I didn’t plan to use young girls,” she says. “Before this, I would be afraid to use her. She (Sidorova) is very young. I did not know if she could throw the last stone.”

Those doubts have been dashed. Sidorova has skipped three Russian wins in five starts at the Iplex.

Meanwhile, Andrianova scoffs at her dissenters and says she’ll continue switching and changing personnel in an effort to get a winner.

“If I change them often, it means I know they can play these positions,” she says. “And I know who can play which positions and who can’t play those positions.

“At practice we try to decide who can play best with other players. Often I don’t know. It’s necessitates experimentation. But people don’t have to be in the same positions all the time.”

Andrianova considers the current Ford Worlds her first chance to go with a younger team. And she points out a lot of other nations are following the same route here.

“My players are curlers and students,” she says. “We don’t use Canadian coaches or Swedish coaches, we try it ourselves, to do it on our own.”

That may be just as well. The curling culture in Russia probably demands Russian tutelage.

“It isn’t easy,” Andrianova adds.

In fact . . .

“Maybe I would prefer to go back to coaching basketball.”

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After 25 years, Moosey’s movin’ on T

hey’re talking about major changes upcoming in the competitive curling world, courtesy officious factions of the World Curling Federation.

As far as 25-year TSN curling commentator Ray Turnbull of Winnipeg is concerned, there’ve been unlimited changes to the game LARRY WOOD Eye Opener Editor already.

Turnbull surrenders his position in the TSN telecast booth following this week’s Ford Worlds women’s event at the Credit Union Iplex.

He’d been involved in the game since his first Brier appearance as a teenager in 1958 at Victoria when his Manitoba team skipped by Terry Braunstein lost a sudden-death Macdonald Brier playoff to Alberta’s Matt Baldwin.

“Before TSN,” he recalls, “I’d spent 25 years travelling the world teaching the game for four or five months per year. And that’s where my notoriety came from. Hey, I was just a lead man in my playing days. But 17 world champions went through my teaching program. So, basically, I’ve travelled 50 years of my life . . . and I’m tired.”

Turnbull, more affectionately known as Moosey, has witnessed just about every meaningful alteration made to the modern game of curling.

“Back in the old days,” he says, “nobody knew there were mismatched stones, right? You missed a shot, you threw it badly. No alibis. The reason the stones have become so prevalent today is that the ice is so good. Practically antiseptic, compared to a quarter-century ago.

“The ice does make that much difference. On the ice we curled on back in the Sixties, Seventies, a rock might have had a pit or something but it wasn’t going to bother it.

There was so much invisible corn dust on the ice from the brooms, little imperfections in the rocks were no problem.

Jenkins and other guys, as opposed to Saskatchewan and Manitoba where icemakers were like chefs. You couldn’t tell them anything. They made their ice and that was it.

I can recall in Winnipeg when the ice in the arena was pretty bad, and that wasn’t so long ago.”

Turnbull detects more “spread” among curling teams now — men’s and women’s.

“There are more casual curlers coming on but less competitive curlers,” he says.

“In our day, you could beat Matt Baldwin. You could beat (Ron) Northcott on a given day. A good team, but not necessarily a competitive team, could knock off a Terry Braunstein or a Don Duguid. But that’s disappeared. Now, it’s such an art, and the ice is so keen.

“Look at the teams that did well in the Brier at Halifax.

Teams are moulded together. Glenn Howard has four guys from different areas of Ontario. (Kevin) Martin designed his team, put it together — two guys from Calgary, two from Edmonton. Gushue had (Ryan) Fry from Winnipeg at second and Stoughton had (Kevin) Park from Edmonton at third.

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MOOSEY: Not in favour of big changes “Even Jennifer (Jones) brought in Georgina Wheatcroft from B.C.” Kelly Scott was taking auditions for lead from all over the country.

It’s a far cry from the days of residency rules.

“I’m not sure it’s good for the game from a growth point of view,” says Turnbull, “but from the perspective of the game being accepted as an athletic sport it has to be good.

“You remember in the old days, people used to laugh at us when we’d tell them we were curlers. And they’d give you the shots about an old man’s game and any fat guy could play.”

The evolution of curlers to athlete status rates as one of the highlights of Turnbull’s life, he confesses.

“From Day One, I always have referred to those players at that level as athletes.

If you don’t have the physical condition these kids have to play the front end, you can’t play the game. Not today.

“In our day it was tough, you played 12end games and used corn brooms. Every August I’d have to get ready to curl and work myself into shape. But the emphasis is far greater nowadays.

“On today’s ice these brushers can control the rock. They want it to go, they’ll get up off it a bit. Sometimes they’ll

corner-brush it. The rock will follow the brush. Often times, if they jump it too quickly, they’ll straighten it right up.

“We used to peel with a foot-and-a-half of ice. Today, the broom’s right on the rock. That’s why peeling used to be a lot more difficult. In fact, I think the game probably was more difficult in the old days.

“But it’s a better game now because of the new rules. From a presentation standpoint you see far more spectacular shots.”

Turnbull is dead set against most of the rumoured alterations to the game.

Including a move to an eight-end curling tilt.

“They’d have to look at the Free Guard Zone rule again,” he says. “At eight ends, a team gets up two or three points after three or four ends and they merely run.

They’ll give you one, give you one, give you one to hold last rock. Eight ends just isn’t a curling game. Hell, we used to play 12!”

And how about eliminating extra ends and tiebreakers in round-robin tournaments, other WCF brainchildren?

“Hey,” says Turnbull, “I’ll give them credit for getting to the FGZ before we did. That was great. But there’s some traditions in the game, too.

“These changes sound like a convenience for some people but not the game.

I guess I’m too much of a traditionalist. I don’t really like them, either.”

• See Moosey’s Movin’ On – Part 2, in Wednesday’s Eye Opener Ray Turnbull’s last broadcast gig for TSN will be playoff action at the Men’s Worlds in Cortina, Italy.

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Time out for Ford World Women’s trivia

Always plan a safe ride home.

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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QUESTION OF THE DAY Over the span of the last three decades Canada has lost 82 games at the world women’s curling championship. Representatives of one country has beaten Canada 16 times over that period. Name the country.

2. Japan has beaten Canada only once over the same period. Name the conquering Japan skip, the year and the name of the Canadian skip she beat.

3. Canada has won 15 gold medals over the 31-year history of the world women’s championship. Which country has won the second-most gold medals?

4. How many.

5. Which nation has won the most silver medals over the 31-year history of the championship?

6. How many?

7. Which nation has won the most bronze medals over the 29-year history of the championship?

8. How many?

9. In which year did the world women’s championship adopt a Page playoff format to determine its winner, and where?

10. Name the Canadian skip who

has amassed the most wins at the world women’s championship and, how many?

11. Where does she rank on the overall winners’ list and name the skips ahead of her?

12. Name the Canadian skip who has amassed the second-most wins, how many wins and her ranking.

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QofD: Sweden 1. Scotland, Denmark, Norway 2. Akiko Katoh, 1999, Colleen Jones.

3. Sweden.

4. Seven gold.

5. Sweden.

6. Six silver.

7. Norway.

8. Nine bronze.

9. 2005 at Paisley, Scotland.

10. Colleen Jones, 43 wins.

11. Jones is ranked No. 6 among winners, behind 5. Helena Blach-Lavrsen, 4. Elisabet Gustafson, 3. Anette Norberg, 2. Andrea Schoepp and 1. Dordi Nordby.

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Skip: (2nd stones) Angelina Jensen

Home: Tarnby/Kastrup - Copenhagen Began curling at age: 12 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Insurance claims correspondent Employer: In Alka Forsiknng Age: 36 Place of birth: Copenhagen Marital status: Relationship Spouse/Partner: Michiel Children: Karolina Maja (6) Favourite food: Chinese food Favourite drink: Strawberry Daiquiri Celebrity dream man: Bradley Cooper Most annoying celebrity: Mr. Bean All-time favourite movie: Avatar Last movie she loved: Avatar Last movie she hated: All movies on Lufthansa Tattooed? No Never leaves home without: Car keys Ten ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers?

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Third: Madeleine Dupont (Fourth stones) Home: Copenhagen Began curling at age: 10 Delivery: Right Occupation: Communications student Employer: None

Danes like Avatar, cocktails and love their Timmy’s; Borat not so much

Children: Annabelle (22 mos) Age: 22 Lead: Favourite food: Greek Place of birth: Copenhagen Camilla Jensen Favourite drink: Milk Marital status: Single — “men are Celebrity dream man: Tim Horton just too much trouble”!

Home: Kastrup/Tarnby - CopenhaMost annoying celebrity: The Favourite food: Cheese gen Osbournes Favourite drink: Water, Cosmo.

Began curling at age: Uncertain.

All-time favourite Celebrity dream man: Jude Law Delivery: Right. movie: The (when he’s not cheating on his Occupation/title: Sales assistant girlfriend).

Employer: Monique Shoes Most annoying celebrity: Paris Age: 27 (but feels like Hilton 25 forever) All-time favourite movie: Place Shawshank Redemption of birth: Last movie she loved: Time Copenhagen Traveller’s Wife Marital staLast movie she hated: If tus: Relationshe hates the first 10 minship utes, she never watches Favourite the remainder. food: Tortellini Tattooed? Nope. with cheese and Never leaves home chicken in creamy without: Keys and tomato sauce. makeup.

Favourite drink: Ten ends or eight?

Deni Screwdriver se D 10 ends upon Celebrity dream t (lef Tiebreakers or no tiet), M adeli man: Ewan Macbreakers? Tiebreakers, for sure. ne D upon Gregor/Hugh Jackman Extra ends or no extra ends? t and Most annoying celebCam Extra ends Millennium illa J rity: Jessica Simpson ense Competed in: 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, Trilogy n.

All-time favourite 09 Worlds, 01, 04, 05, 07, 08 World Last movie she loved: An Edumovie: Moulin Rouge Juniors, 10 Olympics. cation Last movie she loved: Avatar Last movie she hated: The NoteLast movie she hated: All About book (Way too sad) Second: Steve Tattooed? Yes Tattooed? Yes, two.

Never leaves home without: Keys Denise Dupont Never leaves home without: Ten ends or eight? 10 ends.

(Third stones) Mobile phone Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers?

Ten ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers.

Home: Copenhagen Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers?

Extra ends or no extra ends?

Began curling at age: 13 Tiebreakers Extra ends Delivery: Right Extra ends or no extra ends?

Competed in: 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, Occupation/title: Nutritionist Extra ends 08, 09 Worlds, 01, 04, 05 World Employer: Day Care Centre Competed in: 06, 07, 08, 09 Juniors, 06, 10 Olympics.

Age: 25 Worlds, 96, 97, 98 World Juniors, 10 Place of birth: Copenhagen Olympics.

Marital status: Boyfriend Spouse/Partner: Ulrik Damm

China

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Skip: Bingyu Wang

Home: Harbin Began curling at age: 16 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Curler Employer: Chinese Curling Association Age: 25 Place of birth: Harbin Marital status: Unmarried Favourite food: Hot pot Favourite drink: Chocolate milk Celebrity dream man: Brad Pitt All-time favourite movie: The Sound Of Music Last movie she loved: Avatar Tattooed? No Never leaves home without: MP3, Her head Ten ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers?

No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends?

Extra ends Competed in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 Olympics.

Third: Yin Liu Home: Harbin Began curling at age: 18 Delivery: Right Occupation: Curler Employer: Chinese Curling Association Age: 28

Fifth: Ivana Bratic Home: Copenhagen Began curling at age: 12 Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Student Employer: None Age: 21 Place of birth: Bosnia/Herzegovina Marital status: Relationship Spouse/Partner: Dennis Favourite food: Chevapci (skinless sausage) Favourite drink: Cosmopolitan Celebrity dream man: Borat Most annoying celebrity: Sidney Lee (Danish reality star) All-time favourite movie: Monsters Inc. Last movie she loved: Cloudy With A Chance At Meatballs Last movie she hated: Borat Tattooed? No Never leaves home without: My shoes Ten ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 2007, 2008 Junior Worlds

Coach: Renee Sonnenberg Home: Grande Prairie, Canada Occupation/title: Teacher, curling program co-ordinator Employer: Grande Prairie Catholic School District, Peace Curling Association Date of birth: March 22, 1971 Place of birth: Edmonton Coached: Denmark junior women (2007), Denmark women (2009), Denmark women (2010 Olympics).

Harbin club also loves Avatar; watermelon and iced tea

Place of birth: Harbin Place of birth: Harbin Marital status: Unmarried Marital status: Unmarried Lead: Favourite food: Watermelon Favourite food: WaterYan Zhou Favourite drink: Iced tea melon Celebrity dream man: Andy FavouHome: Harbin All-time favourite movie: Amen Began curling at age: 17 For An Olympian Delivery: Right Last movie she Occupation/title: Curler loved: Employer: Chinese Curling Avatar Association TatAge: 27 tooed?

Place of birth: Harbin No Marital status: Yes Never Spouse/Partner: None leaves Children: None home withFavourite food: Dessert out: Notebook g.

Favourite drink: Water Ten ends or n a yu W Celebrity dream man: eight? 10 ends Bing d n ou a Hong Lin Tiebreakers or h Z n e, Ya All-time favourite movie: Avatar no tiebreakers? rite g Yu n a u h Last movie she loved:Avatar No tiebreakers drink: Iced tea s n i Qu Tattooed? No. Extra ends or no Celebrity dream man: left), ( u i Yin L Never leaves home without: extra ends?

Jarley Zhang Money No extra ends Most annoying celebrity: None Ten ends or eight? 10 ends Competed in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 All-time favourite movie: Amen Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers?

Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 OlymFor An Olympian No tiebreakers pics.

Last movie she loved: Avatar Extra ends or no extra ends? No Last movie she hated: None extra ends.

Tattooed? No Second: Competed in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Never leaves home without: A Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 OlymQingshuang Yue notebook pics.

Ten ends or eight? 10 ends TieHome: Harbin breakers or no tiebreakers? No Began curling at age: 14 tiebreakers Fifth: Delivery: Right Extra ends or no extra ends?

Xindi Zhang Occupation/title: Curler No extra ends Employer: Chinese Curling AssoCompeted in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Home: Harbin ciation Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 OlymBegan curling at age: 19 Age: 24 pics.

Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Curler Employer: Chinese Curling Association Age: 25 Place of birth: Harbin Marital status: Unmarried Favourite food: Dessert Favourite drink: Iced tea All-time favourite movie: Avatar Last movie she loved: 2010 Tattooed? No Never leaves home without: Handbag Ten ends or eight? Eight ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 2008 Mixed Doubles No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends?

Extra ends Competed in: 08, 09 Worlds, 03, 04, 05, 06, 0-7, 08, 09, 10 World Juniors.

Coach: Dan Rafael

Home: Lacine, P.Q. Canada Occupation/title: Curling coach Employer: China Curling Association Date of birth: Nov. 16, 1961 Place of birth: Mont-Laurier, P.Q. Canada Coached: 2006 Quebec (Eve Belisle), 2007 France (Thomas Dufour), China 2008 to present.

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Draw 7 Results

Russia Switzerland* %age Russia Switzerland

Team Canada U.S.A. Scotland Sweden Russia Germany TODAY

W 3 1 1 1 1 1

Draw Schedule

DRAW 9 8:30 a.m. Sweden vs. Germany; Switzerlands vs. China; Canada vs. Denmark; Norway vs. Scotland.

DRAW 10 1:30 p.m. Denmark vs. U.S.A.; Scotland vs. Latvia; Germany vs.

Russia; China vs. Japan.

DRAW 11 7:30 p.m. Latvia vs. Norway; U.S.A. vs. Canada; Japan vs. Switzerland; Russia vs. Sweden.

WEDNESDAY

DRAW 12 8:30 a.m. Japan vs. Canada; Russia vs. Norway; Latvia vs. Sweden; U.S.A. vs. Switzerland.

DRAW 13 1:30 p.m. Switzerland vs. Scotland; Sweden vs. Denmark; Norway vs.

China; Canada vs. Germany.

DRAW 14 7:30 p.m. China vs. Russia; Germany vs. Japan; Scotland vs.

U.S.A.; Denmark vs. Latvia.

THURSDAY

DRAW 15 8:30 a.m. U.S.A. vs. Sweden; Latvia vs. Switzerland; Russia vs.

Canada; Japan vs. Norway.

DRAW 16 1:30 p.m. Germany vs. Latvia; China vs. U.S.A.; Denmark vs.

Japan; Scotland vs. Russia.

DRAW 17 7:30 p.m. Norway vs. Denmark;

L 2 4 4 4 4 4

Latvia Canada* %age Latvia Canada

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).

SATURDAY

12 noon. Page Three-Four playoff (or Page One-Two playoff).

5 p.m. Championship semi-final.

SUNDAY

10 a.m. Bronze-medal match.

3 p.m. Gold-medal championship final.

Denmark Russia* %age Denmark Russia

1 2 3 4 0 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 Lead Second 89 91 75 89

5 6 7 0 3 0 1 0 3 Third 79 70

8 9 10 T x x x 4 x x x 10 Skip Team 66 81 79 78

1 2 3 4 0 1 0 1 3 0 2 0 Lead Second 57/97 63 100/95 78

5 6 7 0 1 0 3 0 1 Third 69 79

8 9 10 T 3 0 x 6 0 3 x 12 Skip Team 80 69 93 86

Canada China* %age Canada China

Norway Germany* %age Norway Germany

1 2 3 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 Lead Second 90 74 89 81 1 2 3 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 3 Lead Second 92 84 80 75

5 6 7 0 4 0 1 0 1 Third 95 74 5 6 7 2 0 0 0 1 1 Third 78 66

8 9 10 T 2 0 2 10 0 3 0 9 Skip Team 76 84 84 82 8 9 10 T 0 x x 4 2 x x 10 Skip Team 53 77 75 74

Sweden Scotland* %age Sweden Scotland

1 2 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 Lead Second 83 63 66 72

5 6 7 0 1 0 3 0 2 Third 77 84

8 9 10 T 1 x x 3 0 x x 7 Skip Team 67 72 88 77

Switzerland Denmark* %age Switzerland Denmark

1 2 3 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 Lead Second 63/75 91 88 80

5 6 7 0 2 0 3 0 1 Third 63 80

8 9 10 T 0 x x 3 1 x x 8 Skip Team 44 67 66 78

* —started game with the hammer

1 2 3 4 China* 0 2 0 2 Latvia 0 0 1 0 %age Lead Second China 97 92 Latvia 80 67

1 2 3 4 Germany 0 1 0 1 USA 1 0 4 0 %age Lead Second Germany 75 93 USA 90 85

9 10 11 T 2 1 0 6 0 0 1 7 Skip Team 69 79 76 82

Draw 8 Results

Draw 6 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T Scotland* 3 0 2 1 1 2 2 x x x 11 Japan 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 x x x 2 %age Lead Second Third Skip Team Scotland 89 70 63 93 79 Japan 89 77 73 63 75

6 7 8 1 0 0 0 2 2 Third 72 88

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T Japan* 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 x 5 Sweden 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 2 x 8 %age Lead Second Third Skip Team Japan 82 91 78 63 79 Sweden 93 86 88 81 87

USA 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 8 Norway* 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 7 %age Lead Second Third Skip Team USA 73 67 66 56 65 Norway 76 70 80 78 76

Standings

(through Sunday’s draws) W L Team 5 0 Denmark 4 1 China 4 1 Norway 3 2 Switzerland 3 2 Latvia 3 2 Japan

1 2 3 4 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 Lead Second 91 84 86 76

5 6 7 0 2 1 1 0 0 Third 77 59

8 9 10 T 1 x x 8 0 x x 2 Skip Team 89 89 67 68

5 6 7 0 4 0 1 0 1 Third 86 74

8 9 10 T 0 2 0 8 1 0 4 12 Skip Team 85 85 89 84

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