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Canadian skip Jennifer Jones sur-vived an early scare in Draw 2 Sat-urday night, coming back for a 9-6 win over Sweden. The U.S.A. is the only team 2-0 after one day of play.

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The Stars and Stripes were waving furiously at the Ford World women’s

curling championship on opening day.

U.S. skip Erika Brown of Madi-son, Wis., directed her American champion team of Nina Spatola, Ann Swisshelm and Laura Hal-lisey to the front of the pack after two draws at the Credit Union Iplex.

Brown polished off Japanese veteran Moe Meguro of Aomori 10-3 on the last shift Saturday after earlier rallying with three stolen points in the latter stages en route to an 8-6 afternoon con-quest of Russia’s entry skipped by Anna Sidorova of Moscow.

“It feels great,” said Brown when informed she would carry the day alone on top of the 12-team standings with a 2-and-0 record. “We’d better take a pic-ture of the scoreboard. This is just what we had planned. It’s where we wanted to be, obviously.”

Brown’s outfit was the last of the 12 teams to be decided for the Ford Worlds, having won its U.S. Nationals a mere week ago.

“I honestly feel we did have that advantage today,” said Brown. “Just based on our cir-cumstances. We hadn’t had a lot of ice time together, so we had 12 great well-played games together at the Nationals and finished on a high note, took a few days off and went right back at it. That was our plan the whole season. We always knew there wasn’t go-ing to be a lot of time so we were ready for it.”

The Yanks stole five points from Japan in the third and fourth ends for a 6-0 lead, after which it was a runaway.

In the opener, Brown twice missed draws that cost her points but had the debate square after five ends, then stole in front with a critical deuce in the sixth that severely deflated the Russians. In the end, that deuce proved the margin of victory although Brown needed a double in the 10th to secure the verdict.

Elsewhere Saturday night, Can-

ada’s Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg survived an early scare against a young Swedish team two years out of junior competition before stealing three in the sixth end and another in the seventh to turn around their opener and prance away to a 9-6 win.

Karlstad skip Cecilia Ostlund, 22, had Canada on the run for four ends scoring deuce, single, deuce after Jones drew the four-foot for a single looking at a first-end Swedish pair.

But the relatively inexperienced Swedish skip rubbed off one of her own in the fifth end leaving Jones a draw for two. Then the Swedish sweepers miscalculated on Ostlund’s out-turn draw to the four-foot against four in the sixth and the Swedish rock ground to a halt cutting out only one of the

four Canuck counters.“We got outplayed at the start,

we couldn’t get our rocks in the right spots, we had a couple of zeroes every end and just didn’t perform the way we wanted to,” Jones said of the game’s first half. “And they played awesome, they were on fire.

“But our philosophy always has been that when we’re down we keep trying to get a good feel for the ice and get something out of a game. Experience isn’t necessary but it doesn’t hurt. We know we can come back. We’ve done it a few times.

“You’ve got to have wins like this along the way. We had to make some good shots with our backs to the wall and that’s good for us.”

Ostlund was suspicious first-

night nerves cost her team.“We were quite nervous,” she

admitted. “It was our first game in our first world championship. It was just nice to have the good start and have the lead. We must take that with us when we play our next game.”

Defending world champion Bingyu Wang of China was up-ended in the afternoon’s initial round of action.

Wang jockeyed in front of Germany’s Andrea Schoepp 5-3 after five ends, then faltered and was outscored 5-1 over the last five in an 8-6 decision favouring Germany.

Attempting a runback to remain in the game with last rock, Wang wrecked on a guard to enable Germany to post a stolen insur-ance point.

“We made so many mistakes in that game,” said Wang, the bronze medallist in the recent Vancouver Olympic Games curl-ing tournament.

“Our players don’t feel so good about it. Our communication was poor. It was the first gamed for us and a tough game and that is not bad for us.”

It wasn’t a problem a year ago at Gangneung, Korea, either, when China lost its opener to Canada’s Jones and then rang up a 12-game winning streak to claim the world title.

“It doesn’t matter that they’re the defending champions,” said Schoepp, who is appearing in her 17th world championship.

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Norwegian skip Linn Githmark and Swiss second Heike Schwaller watch Githmark’s shot during Draw 2 action. Norway went on to win 7-6.

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“I think most of these teams are the same and really close together. So you can win, 50-50, and it doesn’t matter who you’re playing.

“We’ve played them (China) a few times this year and it was always close. It was mostly extra ends. This time we got the job done in 10 ends.

It was the only game of the day for both teams.

In other late tiffs, Norway’s Linn Githmark shaded Binia Feltscher of Switzerland 7-6 without requiring the hammer when the Swiss skip wrecked on her last shot and Russia, with Anna Sidorova skipping, rebounded from the after-noon loss to defeat the rookie Latvian crew skipped by Iveta Stasa-Sarsune 4-2.

Scotland’s 19-year-old Eve Muirhead turned on the heat and walloped Denmark 9-4 in the afternoon while Meguro dropped the Latvian team by a 7-4 count.

Scotland jumped into a 5-1 lead against Angelina Jen-sen’s Copenhagen crew, then watched the Danes throw up

an offensive of sorts that was halted in the eighth end when Muirhead issued a takeout in the four-foot that involved the movement of three stones to render three of her own stand-ing up for a game-ending killer

count.“It’s always good for us to

get off to a good start and never really let the opposition in,” said Muirhead. “We were on them pretty well all the way. They didn’t have a disastrous

game but we just pounced on top of them with every shot and really controlled the issue.”

Denmark’s last-rock thrower, Madeleine Dupont, agreed.

“We can’t be too worried,” she said. “Eve and the girls

played amazing. We didn’t play as well. We got behind and they just blasted everything away. We didn’t have a chance. They were really good, we weren’t and that was the differ-ence.

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A total of 13 players in the Swift Current lineup at the Ford World women’s curling championship

have made more appearances.Eight of those are adding to their respec-

tive totals this week.But Cathy Overton-Clapham, on hand for

the fifth time as a Canadian vice-skip, is the home-country veteran in this event at a mere 40 years of age. Only Nova Scotia’s Colleen Jones has played in more Worlds (six) as a Canadian rep.

“Five trips?” notes Cathy-O. “That’s a long way down the list from Andrea Scho-epp.”

True. And Schoepp, the German skip and mathematics professor who is making her 17th appearance in this planetary press, is a mere one appearance short of the record owned by Norway’s Dordi Nordby.

But everybody knows it’s easier to win the German championship or the Norwe-gian championship and qualify for the Ford Worlds than it is to survive the Canadian gauntlet that leads to this stage of the global game.

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Overton-Clapham won two national junior championships but there was no followup world event back in 1986. She skipped a team in the 1990 competition, finished 9-and-2 but lost the final to Kirsty Addison (Hay) of Scotland.

The Winnipegger was dogged by the same result in her first Ford Worlds, play-ing third for Connie Laliberte in 1995. They lost the final to Elisabet Gustafson of Sweden.

“Back then,” she recalls now, “what I found most difficult was the two semi-finals, sudden-death, format. And there always was so much pressure on the Canadians then because they always were supposed to win. It was tough on teams that dominated the tournament. That semi-final was tough to take when it was just do-or-die.

“You don’t really realize it until you’re actually in one. When I was in the semi in ‘95 with Connie — it was against Andrea Schoepp — and we said, ‘OK, we don’t want to feel the same way we felt the last time we played in this game’. You can’t go back and you don’t get a second chance so you have to try to soak up ev-erything you can in that game.”

In the end, they won it but lost the final.“That’s pretty hard to take, too,” she

admits.Laliberte sailed through the playoff

round in her first world visit (1984) but lost in the semis (1993).

Cathy-O has been at third for Jennifer Jones in the last two renewals of the Ford World women’s and three of the last five — winning one and missing bronze med-als by a game in the other pair.

She has appeared in 11 Scotties Tourna-ment Of Hearts (the Canadian champion-ship) representing Manitoba seven times and Team Canada four times.

A skip in her early days, she soon found her niche pitching third rocks.

“I enjoy being the go-between, front-end and skip,” she says. “I like the position and I have a lot of fun at it.

“I liked skipping but I really took to playing third. To hold the broom for Jennifer (Jones) and see all the different kinds of shots she makes is really kind of unbelievable.”

Cathy-O says curling “has changed a lot” since she first began stepping into championship hacks. Hence, any differ-ences between her former skipper, Lalib-erte, and her current skipper, Jones.

“I’m a little older now,” says Cathy-O, “and I was younger playing with Connie when she was where I am now.

“Connie and Jennifer are similar, though, in that they both are very deter-mined and they want to be the best at what they do.

“They are committed and their practice methods are similar, too. Connie was pretty mellow, she didn’t say a lot and didn’t show a lot of expression. (Jones is relatively more demonstrative). Both are great people on and off the ice and great ambassadors for the sport. And great last-rock throwers.”

Cathy-O says she has one thing in com-mon with her skips.

“I liked to be a perfectionist, too,” she says. “I liked to throw a lot of rocks. I want to be able to compete at the level at which others are competing. I was pretty determined in juniors as I am now and I practised a lot, sometimes twice a day, probably too many times, but I was pretty determined to be the best I could be.”

She says international competition these days is greatly improved.

“The European teams are travelling a lot more, playing in Canada against the best,” she says. “They’re getting more Canadian coaches helping them out.

“Coaching really has helped the sport. It certainly has helped us. We’ve learned so many different things, so many different practice methods. When you get on the national team program you have more access to more people. I’m able to phone one of those people at any time and get some questions answered or a little bit of advice. Just having been put in that per-spective, it helps. You learn from the best that have played the game.

“I think being there so many differ-ent times and learning so many different things — how we approach things, what we do with our practises — is an advan-tage. It just isn’t about getting on the ice and throwing. We’re matching rocks when we’re out there and we have a real purpose to a tournament. It’s like we’re not just happy to be here, we’re going to try to win some games.

“I think each year we learn something different from being here and it tends to give you a definite advantage, for sure. The more you get to these events you hope you’re going to get more out of it than somebody else.”

Cathy-O scoffs at anybody surmising this post-Olympic tournament constitutes an international anti-climax.

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“I think this field is going to be tough,” she surmises. “You know these teams are going to play the best they can against you. When I watched the Olympics, I saw teams we nor-mally play against and I didn’t think they all played to their potential. Whether it was the whole big Olympic pressure, I don’t know. But you have to think they’re all going to play great this week.

“They all love to play in Canada and they all step it up to play against Canada, so we’re going to have to be at our best from

the very start to the following Sunday.”Cathy-O experienced knee problems in

2005 at the Scotties and had the wonky hinge scoped.

“You’re always aware of it, but it seems to be fine as long as I prepare properly,” she says.

“I haven’t had to have anything done with it this season. In September, I had a cortisone shot and I usually have one again in January but it was fine so I didn’t have it done.”

And as long as the knee holds out, the thought of retirement is a mere speck on the horizon.

“As long as I can continue to keep up with everybody else, I’ll be around,” she says, flashing that disarming smile.

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The question is one of many being raised as

another curling season drones toward another springtime conclusion and the boys in the board rooms begin to flex their vocal chords.

Why is it, proponents of shorter curling events and shorter curling games want to know, that telecasts of Olym-pic Games matches fit neatly inside a three-hour time span while telecasts of the recent Tim Hortons Brier matches and other Season-of-Champions events sometimes extended to almost an additional 30 minutes or more?

The answer, of course, is simple. International curlcasts abide by one-minute breaks. Canadian curlcasts extend as long as two-and-one-half minutes and counting.

Add an extra 90 seconds between ends and, suddenly, you’re looking at 15 minutes over a 10-end curling game. Extra ends will gobble up another 15 minutes.

Fact is, there are so many sensible methods of cutting down the time it takes to complete 10-end curling games you could write a book on the subject.

But let’s stick with TV commercial time for the mo-ment. Roughly 58 per cent of the break time in Canadian curling telecasts is filled with network commercials. The other 42 per cent is claimed by the Canadian Curling Association and is used to promote upcoming Season Of Champion events and other tie-in promotions to which the CCA has agreed.

And, no, Vince and his Slap Chop, Parts One, Two, Three and Four per telecast aren’t part of the latter. But Canadian TV people already have informed the CCA that its interests that now command commercial-break time could easily be accommodated during non-commercial free telecast time. And that would tighten up breaks between ends.

Still, the discrepancy in TV time, as exhibited during the curling at the Vancouver Olympics, has prompted a lot of sober second thought when it comes to the push to reduce championship curling matches to eight-ends duration.

Certain World Curling Federation types are in favour of eight ends and will lobby for a change again next month during meetings in exotic Cortina d’Ampezzo, It-aly. They’ve been lobbying, in fact, for a decade already.

The WCF also will consider, however misguided it may seem in Canada, to abolish extra ends and tiebreak-ers in favour of a points system in standings for round-robin championships. This move is designed to eliminate as much as one day from a nine-day curling event.

All this has surfaced, of course, because tall foreheads in back rooms have decided curling games and events are too long and something must be done about it.

Television is on board where the too-long thinking is concerned, too. TV people are on record as (a) favouring three-hour curling telecasts, no more, no less, but failing that (b) preferring a move to eight-end games rather that eliminating the odd front-end shot from their 10-end package.

Such elimination, they argue, interferes with the integ-rity of the game and TV’s depiction of it. Never mind that to scrap 10-end games is to drastically interfere with the integrity of the game, to say nothing of its traditions.

The tube people got around the one-minute Olympic breaks in the U.S. simply by cutting into the front-end shooting for a second commercial break per end. NBC and its partners showed the first two or three lead rocks per end, broke for a commercial, and picked it up with seconds’ last rocks.

A lot of ends were set up at that point. It provided fine fodder for Colleen Jones and Don Duguid, who were supplying the commentary. And, frankly, it wasn’t that noticeable. Canadian producers, though, would have cringed, big-time.

Still, any way you slice it, an intriguing set of WCF meetings is guaranteed next month in the Italian Dolo-mites. And the intrigue could extend much deeper than discussions and votes to kill 10-end games, extra ends and tiebreakers and the drive toward shorter games and

competitions.The Canadian Curling Association has just one year

remaining in its marketing agreement with the WCF that enables the CCA to call the shots when world events are staged in Canada. The deal goes poof in the wake of the Ford World men’s tournament a year from now at Regina.

Thereafter, the WCF wants its marketing agent, Swiss-based Infront, which has its tentacles wrapped around a myriad of international winter sport federations from figure skating to ice hockey to Alpine and Nordic skiing, to assume complete control of WCF events.

Canada’s reaction: Not so’s you’d notice. The CCA wants to control its own marketing for events staged in Canada. And CCA delegates to the WCF meetings next month will be adamant in maintaining that posture.

Which is to say, you want world curling events in Canada, back off on the marketing push. Otherwise, take your world curling events elsewhere. And, presumably, where the sun doesn’t shine.

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Welcome to a World of Experience!Today – 4:30 pmA week from now one team will stand alone as winners of the 2010 Ford World Women’s Championship. Today, you have the opportunity to meet with several of Saskatchewan’s world champions from the past. It was 1980 when Marj Mitchell skipped her Regina team of Nancy Kerr, Shirley McKendry and Wendy Leach to Canada’s first world women’s curling championship title. In 1993, another Regina foursome brought the championship title back home to Saskatchewan. The Sandra Schmirler team - including Jan Betker, Joan McKusker and Marcia Gudereit – went on to win the world’s the following year, once more in 1997 and Olympic gold in 1998.

Sadly, both of our world champion skips have since passed on – Mitchell in 1983 and Schmirler in 2000 – leaving legacies to the game that have grown through the years. However, their team members will be with us in Keith’s Patch today at 4:30 pm to share their unique experiences. It’s your chance to meet and ask questions of these Hall of Fame athletes.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY:Two skips have played in three con-secutive world women’s champion-ship finals. Name them and the years they played in the finals.

1. How about their three opponents in each case?

2. Name the skip (or skips) who has (have) played in the most world championship finals and how many?

3. Name seven skips who have played in two consecutive world women’s championship finals and the years they played in the finals.

4. How about their two opponents in each case?

5. Name the Canadian skip who has appeared in more world women’s championships than any other.

6. In how many world championships and how many finals did this skip appear?

7. Who was the last skip of a French team at the world women’s champi-onship to win more games than she lost.

8. Where was she from and in which year?

9. How about her record?

10. Name the curler who has skipped Scotland teams in more world wom-en’s championships than any other.

11. How many championships?

12. Did he ever skip a world cham-pion? If so, in which year and where? If not, what was her best finish, year and venue?

QofD: Elisabeth Hogstrom (1980, 1981, 1982), Andrea Schoepp (1986, 1987, 1988). 1. Hogstrom (Marj Mitchell, Susan Seitz, Marianne Jorgensen); Schoepp (Marilyn Darte (Bodogh), Pat Sanders, Heather Houston).2. Elisabet Gustafson, Dordi Nordby, Anette Norberg, four finals.3. Dordi Nordby (1990, 1991), Sandra Schmirler (1993, 1994), Elisabet Gus-tafson (1998, 1999), Colleen Jones (2003, 2004), Anette Norberg (2005, 2006), Bingyu Wang (2008, 2009).4. Nordby (Carolyn Hutchinson, Julie Sutton (Skinner); Schmirler (Janet Strayer, Christine Cannon); Gustafson (Helena Blach-Lavrsen, Patti Lank); Jones (Debbie McCormick, Dordi Nor-dby); Norberg (Cassie Johnson (Pot-ter), Debbie McCormick), Wang (Jen-nifer Jones, Anette Norberg).5. Colleen Jones.6. Six championships, three finals.7. Paulette Sulpice8. Megeve, 19829. 5 wins, 4 losses.10. Christine (Allison) Cannon.11. Skipped in five championships.12. Best finish was runnerup in 1994 at Oberstdorf, Germany.

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Skip: Cecilia Ostlund

Home: KarlstadBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Sports science studentEmployer: NoneAge: 22Place of birth: KarlstadMarital status: SingleFavourite food: TacosFavourite drink: Orange juiceCelebrity dream man: Channing TatumMost annoying celebrity: Paris HiltonAll-time favourite movie: Da Vinci CodeLast movie she loved: Twilight – New MoonLast movie she hated: ZombielandTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Chewing gumTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends. Competed in: 08 World Juniors.

Third: Sara CarlssonHome: OrebroBegan curling at age: 13Delivery: RightOccupation: Sports management studentEmployer: None

Age: 23Place of birth: StockholmMarital status: SingleFavourite food: Chicken and PestoFavourite drink: WaterCelebrity dream man: Christian BaleMost annoying celebrity: Anna AnkaAll-time favourite movie: Kill BillLast movie she loved: Sher-lock HolmesLast movie she hated: It’s All About SteveTattooed? NoNever leaves home with-out: Ipod (music)Ten ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tie-breakers? No tiebreak-ers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 08 World Juniors.

Second: Anna Domejj

Home: KarlstadBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Nursing studentEmployer: NoneAge: 22Place of birth: KarlstadMarital status: BoyfriendFavourite food: Vegetarian tachasFavourite drink: CoffeeCelebrity dream man: Josh Hart-nett

Most annoying celebrity: Renee ZellwegerAll-time favourite movie: Lord Of The RingsLast movie she loved: Pirates Of

the CaribbeanLast movie she

hated: None

Tattooed? YesNever leaves home without: HandbagTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 08 World Juniors

Lead: Lotta Lennartsson

Home: KarlstadBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Croupier, studyingEmployer: Cherry casinoAge: 22Place of birth: KarlstadMarital status: In relationshipSpouse/Partner: Niklas Edin

Children: NoneFavourite food: Tacos

Favourite drink: Water

Celebrity dream man:

Jude LawMost annoy-ing celebrity:

Dr. PhilAll-time favou-rite movie: Avatar

Last movie she loved: Shutter Island

Last movie she hated: Old DogsTattooed? Yes, two

Never leaves home without: CellphoneTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreak-

ers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 08 World Juniors

Fifth: Sabina KrauppHome: OrebroBegan curling at age: 12 (but play-ing on ice since forever)

Delivery: RightOccupation/title: StudentEmployer: NoneAge: 23Place of birth: StockholmMarital status: Hard to define. Not single?Favourite food: Chicken with coco-nut milkFavourite drink: MilkCelebrity dream man: Adam Brody . . .Yummy!Most annoying celebrity: David LettermanAll-time favourite movie: Step-mom, Forrest GumpLast movie she loved: AvatarLast movie she hated: P2, I hate horrorsTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Lip balmTen ends or eight? Eight ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 08 Worlds, 05, 06 World Juniors.

Coach: Peja Lindholm

Home: OstersundOccupation/title: Responsible edu-cationEmployer: Community of OstersundDate of birth: Feb. 6, 1970Place of birth: OstersundCoached: First-year

Sweden: Young squad of students coached by one of country’s curling legends

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Skip: Liudmila Privivkova

Home: MoscowBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightyOccupation/title: Post-grad studentEmployer: NoneAge: 23Place of birth: MoscowMarital status: SingleFavourite food: DessertsFavourite drink: Cherry juiceCelebrity dream man: Will SmithMost annoying celebrity: NoneAll-time favourite movie: Bad Boys I and II, Lubov i goluby (Russian film)Last movie she loved: AvatarLast movie she hated: NoneTattooed? No.Never leaves home without: Wal-let, cellphone, clothes, of course!Ten ends or eight? 10 ends, but more importantly, is it enough for the win? Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 03, 05, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 World Juniors, 06, 10 Olympics.

Third: Anna SidarovaHome: MoscowBegan curling at age: 14Delivery: RightOccupation: StudentEmployer: None.Age: 19Place of birth: Moscow

Marital status: SingleFavourite food: Russian food, mostly . . .Favourite drink: Juices, lemonade, caramel machiatto.All-time favourite movie: Pearl HarbourLast movie she loved: AvatarLast movie she hated: The DepartedTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Mobile phoneTen ends or eight? 10 ends. Tiebreakers or no tiebreak-ers? Tiebreak-ers. Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 09, 10 World Juniors, 10 Olympics.

Second: Nkeiruka Ezekh

Home: MoscowBegan curling at age: 14Delivery: RightOccupation/title: StudentEmployer: NoneAge: 26Place of birth: MoscowMarital status: Single

Favourite food: Ukrainian borschtFavourite drink: Pineapple juiceCelebrity dream man: Johnny DeppMost annoying celebrity: None.All-time favourite movie: Breakfast At Tif-fany’s

Last movie she

loved: AvatarLast movie she hated: None.Tattooed? No.Never leaves home without: Cell-phoneTen ends or eight? 10 ends. Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? TiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends. Competed in: 01, 02, 03, 05, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 00, 01, 02, 04, 05 World Juniors, 02, 06, 10 Olympics.

Lead: Ekaterina Galkina

Home: MoscowBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: StudentEmployer: NoneAge: 21Place of birth: MoscowMarital status: SingleFavourite food: Mom’s stuff.Favourite drink: Latte Machi-attoCelebrity dream man: Ben BarnesMost annoying celebrity: Mariah CareyAll-time favourite movie: Cast Away (Tom Hanks)Last movie she loved: Law-Abiding Citizen, AvatarLast movie she

hated: Final Destination 4Tattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Cell-phoneTen ends or eight? Eight ends. Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends. Competed in: 05, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10 World Juniors, 06, 10 Olympics.

Fifth: Margarita Fomina

Home: MoscowBegan curling at age: 13Delivery: RightOccupation/title: StudentEmployer: NoneAge: 21Place of birth: DmitrovMarital status: SingleFavourite food: VegetablesFavourite drink: Mojito (non-alcoholic)Celebrity dream man: Jude LawMost annoying celebrity: Keira KnightleyAll-time favourite movie: Califor-nicationLast movie she loved: Tzar (Rus-sian)Last movie she hated: Transform-ersNever leaves home without: Cell-phone she lost several days ago.Ten ends or eight? Eight ends. Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? 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: Olga Andrianova

Home: MoscowOccupation/title: CoachEmployer: SelfDate of birth: June 15Place of birth: MoscowCoached: Basketball from 1978, curling from 1994

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2010 FORD WORLD WOMEN’S SCHEDULE AND RESULTS

TodaydRaW 38:30 a.m. Denmark vs. China; Scotland vs. Germany.

dRaW 41:30 p.m. Sweden vs. Norway; U.S.A. vs. Latvia; Russia vs. Ja-pan; Canada vs. Switzerland.

dRaW 57 p.m. Germany vs. Denmark; Norway vs. Canada; Switzerland vs. Sweden; China vs. Scotland.

MondaydRaW 68:30 a.m. Scotland vs. Japan; Den-mark vs. Russia; China vs. Latvia; Germany vs. U.S.A.

dRaW 71:30 p.m. Russia vs. Switzerland; Japan vs. Sweden; U.S.A. vs. Norway; Latvia vs. Canada.

dRaW 87:30 p.m. Canada vs. China; Norway vs. Germany; Sweden vs. Scotland; Switzerland vs.

Denmark.

TUESdaydRaW 98:30 a.m. Sweden vs. Germany; Switzerlands vs. China; Canada vs. Denmark; Norway vs. Scotland.

dRaW 101:30 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. Swit-zerland; Russia vs. Sweden.

WEdnESdaydRaW 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 14

7:30 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).

Standings(through Saturday’s draws)

draw 1 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TChina* 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 6Germany 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamChina 94 81 86 65 82Germany 81 89 85 75 83

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TRussia* 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 6USA 1 0 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamRussia 99 80 78 58 79USA 74 86 75 64 75

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TJapan 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 7Latvia* 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamJapan 79 70 70 81 75Latvia 71 56 56 75 65

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TScotland* 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 3 x x 9Denmark 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 x x 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamScotland 77 83 83 87 82Denmark 95 78 77 73 81

draw 2 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TLatvia 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 x 2Russia* 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 x 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamLatvia 78 78 75 78 77Russia 95 89 83 88 88

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TCanada* 1 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 2 x 9Sweden 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 x 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamCanada 91 83 76 68 79Sweden 80 73 79 68 75

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TNorway 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 7Switzerland* 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 6%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNorway 79 81 75 63 75Switzerland 86 61 80 54 71

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TJapan 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 x x x 3USA* 0 1 2 3 0 0 4 x x x 10%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamJapan 82 89 89 66 82USA 77 95 77 84 83

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draw Schedule

Team W LU.S.A. 2 0Norway 1 0Scotland 1 0Germany 1 0Canada 1 0Japan 1 1

Team W LRussia 1 1Switzerland 0 1Sweden 0 1Denmark 0 1China 0 1Latvia 0 2


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Up to now, one or the other of the world championships has been staged in Canada every year, and for good reason. There are more lucrative (or even semi-lucrative) venues in Canada than there are in total on the remainder of the earth’s crust.

The WCF knows this. If Canada says ‘see yuh’ to WCF events, the WCF’s scope of venues narrows drastically. So does the scope of crowds and the scope of profits, a word that never has related to world curl-ing events on the other side of the large pond, anyway.

WCF people will cry foul, naturally, and claim Canada is doing nothing to help grow the game globally. But the CCA argues it has a right to market events on its own terra firma and can never be accused of failing to aid and nurture the game else-where. Not any time. Not anywhere.

The CCA, in fact, holds most of the aces in this deck. It wants to protect its own sponsors and its own TV contract with

TSN that runs for another four years.

And there’s a precedent for the ace of spades here if Canada wants to play it.

The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ran into a brick wall back in the early Seventies trying to come to terms with the IIHF in a num-ber of areas. The last resort: Canada pulled out of the IIHF and its world hockey championship for at least a half-decade.

Can you imagine a world curling championship like the one under way at the Credit Union Iplex attracting a whole bunch of interest without a team from Canada involved? Here in Swift Current or anywhere else they play the game?

The CCA certainly would prefer to come to an amicable agreement with the global administrative body on all these issues. But the CCA also knows that most Canadian fans, prospective supporters and ticket buyers feel certain aspects of the game should not be subject to mind-less tinkering. Particularly from outside interests.

And to even consider giving away your rights to marketing the game on your own soil? Obviously, that’s a monumental no-brainer.

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Canada’s Jim Armstrong held off a late rally from Korea’s Haksung Kim to earn Canada’s second

straight 2010 Paralympic Winter Games wheelchair curling gold medal in front of 5,000 cheering fans at the Olympic Centre on Saturday.

A draw for four by Armstrong in the fourth end appeared to settle this issue with Canada up 8-1 but the resilient Ko-rean crew battled back and scored a deuce in the fifth end.

Korea got two stones moulded on the button in the sixth end and stole another pair, then added another in the seventh when Armstrong rolled out on a hit against two.

Korea tried in earnest to extend the game in the final end but Armstrong clinched the gold medal with a takeout.

“It’s tremendous and it’s overwhelm-ing,” Armstrong said. “This game really showed that the best part of Wheelchair Curling is that no lead is safe.

“It wasn’t that we were playing bad in the second half. They [Korea] were just making their shots and started whittling away at the lead.”

Augusto Perez and Team U.S.A. couldn’t put a bronze glow on their fin-ish at the Games as Sweden knocked the Americans off the medal stand with a 7-5 defeat in the bronze-medal game. tonight. Canada repeated as champion.

Jalle Jugnell’s Swedish team topped a trying last few days as their vice-skip was disqualified Friday due to a failed drug test for the use of a beta blocker called metoprolol.

The 59-year-old Armstrong’s Canadian champion lineup included Darryl Neigh-

bour 61, Ina Forrest 47, Sonja Gaudet 43, Bruno Yizek 61.

A former dentist, Armstrong began wheelchair curling 2 1⁄2 years ago “when a friend with the Canadian Curling As-sociation knew I had some mobility issues and suggested I give it a whirl.”

A former six-time Brier competitor, Armstrong suffered from knee problems, underwent 14 knee operations prior to replacements.

“Then I managed to get into a car ac-cident right after my first knee replace-ment,” he recalled. “I put it into the dashboard and smashed it up pretty good. That, in turn, ruined my lower back. That was the end of my dental career, too.”

Armstrong has grown to relish wheel-chair curling.

“The game itself is identical, the sheet, the rocks, the scoring, everything,” he said. “The big difference is in able-bod-ied, you have from the hack to the hog to get things under control and get the rock off. We do it in two feet because we are stationary. And we don’t have sweeping. Once that leaves the stick, you wish it luck because you can holler at it and the sucker just doesn’t listen. It teaches you humility in a hurry.

“Everybody in wheelchair curling has his/her own story. Some have had experiences most of us don’t have to deal with in a lifetime. But the silver lining is

everybody leaves the ego at the door. You have that common thread of how we got into that position of whatever disability it is. There is that common bond. It just makes everybody that much closer.’

Armstrong is the only wheelchair curler on the competitive scene with any amount of able-bodied competitor experience.

“It has been a big learning curve for many on the team, but our guys are just all over it. They are very intelligent people and willing to learn. I can teach them a lot about strategy and they teach me a lot about everything else.

“It has been a second lease on life for me. When I lost my ability to curl able-bodied, it left a big void. It was all my sporting career and most of my social life. I have a lot of it back and, in some ways, it’s better.”

Armstrong lost his wife Carleen to can-cer last year.

“Between dentistry, curling and family, that was pretty much it. I’m actually in a complete transition right now. Wheelchair curling has just really been a blessing. It has given me a focus. It’s been great. Everybody has been very understanding.”

Jim Armstrong

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