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Clashof the

Continents

World Financial Continental Cup 2012 North America skips (L-R) Patti Lank, Glenn Howard, Ste-fanie Lawton, Pete Fenson, Amber Holland and Jeff Stoughton.

World Financial Group Continental Cup 2012 Team World skips (L-R) Eve Muirhead,Tom Brews-ter, Anette Norberg,Thomas Ulsrud, Bingyu Wang, and Niklas Edin.

Team World looks to bounce back

and even the score

n Tight rivalry continues Page 3n Scoring and rules Page 5n Meet the teams Pages 4, 10

Thursday, January 12, 2012

And for starters . . . TODAY’S GAME

Women’s Team Games(8:30 a.m.)

Sheet A — World (Bingyu Wang) vs. North America (Patti Lank)Sheet B — World (Anette Norberg) vs. North America (Stefanie Lawton)Sheet C — World (Eve Muir-head) vs. N. America (Amber Holland)

Mixed Doubles(1 p.m.)

Sheet A — World (Qingshuang Yue and Tom Brewster) vs. North America (Wayne Mid-daugh and Nina Spatola)Sheet B — World (Anette Nor-berg and Sebastian Kraupp) vs. North America (Reid Carruthers and Kim Schneider)Sheet C — World (Thomas Ulsrud and Cissi Ostlund) vs. North America (Shawn Rojeski and Marliese Kasner)

Men’s Team Games(6:30 p.m.)

Sheet A — World (Tom Brew-ster) vs. North America (Pete Fenson)Sheet B — World (Niklas Edin) vs. North America (Jeff Stoughton)Sheet C — World (Thomas Ul-srud) vs. North America (Glenn Howard)

(wins are worth six points,while ties are worth three)

Today’s MatchesFRIDAY’S GAMES

Women’s Team Games(8:30 a.m.)

Sheet A — World (Anette Norberg) vs. N. America (Patti Lank)Sheet B — World (Bingyu Wang) vs. North America(Amber Holland)Sheet C — World (Eve Muir-head) vs. N. America (Stefanie Lawton)

Mixed Doubles

(1 p.m.)Sheet A — World (Toirger Nergard and Bingyu Wang) vs. North America (Craig Savill and Patti Lank)Sheet B — World (Fredrik Lindberg and Eve Muirhead) vs. North America (Ben Hebert and Stefanie Lawton)Sheet C — World (Greg Drum-mond and Anna Sloan) vs. North America (Joe Polo and

Amber Holland)Men’s Team Games

(7 p.m.)Sheet A — World (Niklas Edin) vs. North America Glenn Howard)Sheet B — World (Thomas Ulsrud) vs. North America (Pete Fenson)Sheet C — World (Tom Brew-ster) vs. North America (Jeff Stoughton)

(wins are worth six points,while ties are worth three)

Friday’s Matches

By Larry WoodMorning Cup editor

It may appear to some to be the craziest event on curl-ing’s calendar — partly because some of the disci-plines are less than traditional in a sport that’s long on

tradition, and partly because the darkest enemies wind up being the tightest buddies.

Whatever, the shooting was to commence in earnest today at 8:30 a.m. in the eighth running of the World Finan-cial Group Continental Cup of Curling at the Langley Event Centre, the sport’s answer to golf’s Ryder Cup.

The four-day competition features six teams from North America (Canada and the U.S.) facing off against six teams from the remainder of the planet (in this case, Sweden, Scotland, Norway and China) in four separate events involving rocks and brooms — regular team play, mixed doubles, singles (also known as Hot Shots) and skins.

The value of results starts low today with team and mixed doubles play and gradually swells with the heavy-duty skins action primed to decide the issue on Sunday. (Rules of play can be found on page 5).

As irony would have it, no team has won this event twice in a row. The Amerks won the first time out of the gate in 2002 and the gauntlet has been bandied back and forth ever since. Hence, this would be Team World’s turn to shine and, based on the thumping it absorbed last year at St. Albert, AB., nothing other than a win will suffice in TW’s view.

Team World captain David Hay of Scotland claims his side considers these proceedings on a global-championship level.

“We have to move this event forward,” he said following Tuesday practices. “Ideally, we want this event to alternate between North America and Europe no more than two years from now. In order to achieve that, we have to sell the concept to sponsors and funding sources in European countries.”

On the subject of television, the entire event will be fea-tured live on the TSN network.

“It’s an international event, it’s on TV and people want to win, “ says Team North American captain Julie Skin-ner of Victoria. “I think that changes your outlook. And I understand last year Team North America really handed it to them (Team World) and so they’re coming back all guns going this time.”

This promises an interesting four days with three draws each for the first three days and a pair slated Sunday. Further draw times today are 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. It’s 8:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, 8:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday.

“We have a good team,” says Skinner, whose team lineup includes Canadian champions Amber Holland (Kronau, SK.) and Jeff Stoughton (Winnipeg), 2010 Canada Cup champions Stefanie Lawton (Saskatoon) and Glenn Howard (Coldwater, ON), and U.S. champions Patti Lank (Roches-ter, N.Y.) and Pete Fenson (Bemidji, Minn.).

“Furthermore,” she was heard to say at Tuesday night’s

opening banquet, “we’re going to kick butt.”Well, Hay’s strong contingent from the World scene may

contest that challenge.Team World include teams of Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud,

Euro champion of the last two years and trouser fashionista extraordinaire, Scotland’s Tom Brewster, world silver-med-al winner from last year, and Sweden’s Niklas Edin, world bronze-medal winner from last year. But the women’s segment may prove to be telling. That threesome includes three-time world champ and two-time Olympic gold-winner Anette Norberg of Sweden, four-time world junior and cur-rent Euro champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland, and former world champion Bingyu Wang of China.

“There’s lots on the line here but it isn’t the same high-

pressure stuff you find at an Olympic trials or a Brier,” allows Glenn Howard, the Ontario men’s champion of the past six years and counting.

“But what you’re doing here is performing for a bigger team. It’s a different dynamic and a different feeling, as op-posed to being out there with you’re own little team.

“It’s been very exciting. We were fortunate enough to play in this before and we loved it. I think it’ll be a more relaxed atmosphere but I think you’ll see as the weekend goes on we’re going to get a little more stressed and we’ll be pulling for each other more and more.”

Curlers have raved about the format and it’s a television winner but the jury still is out on the live audiences.

Continued from Page 3

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What’s this? No booze, please, we’re Europeans?That’s the edict hovering over Team World

at the latest unveiling of the World Financial Group Continental Cup curling competition today at the Langley Event Centre.

For the visiting curlers from across several ponds, it’s go-ing to be a dry time in Lotusland.

“We fully plan to do our celebrating (supposedly with a generous helping of the bubbly) late Sunday,” says Team World coach Peja Lindholm of Sweden, a three-time world champion skip who was on hand a year ago at St. Albert when the North Americans embarrassed his squad by a lopsided score previously unheard of in curling’s answer to the Ryder Cup concept.

This primarily ‘friendly’ competition, started back in 2002, definitely is taking on a more serious tone based on last year’s shellacking.

“It has been made fairly clear to us,” says Team World captain David Hay of Scotland, who comes from a long line of rock-chuckers moulded on the auld sod, “that this event is comparable to a world championship and we can’t have people getting (bleeped-up) and expecting to compete.

“We have 30 hours of television here, it’s disrespectful to the sponsors and to the sport. There have been one or two examples over a number of years of people who, perhaps, lost track of what we’re trying to do. Those people aren’t here now. They missed the plane.”

Talk about a tough stance, in a game not renowned for iron stances!“We’re here to put on a show, do a job, we want to win this thing,” says Hay, a former

world champion. “A lot of our athletes won’t take a drink at any point in time. So why should the other half come out (bleep) for the game?

“You’re never going to get respect for a sport unless you tow the line. I guess for the Europeans, the Swedes, the Norwegians, the others, the biggest thing is the funding for the sport. And no sponsors or government-funded entity will give you the time of day if you just go out and (bleep) against the wall. That’s where we’re coming from.”

Funding, of course, is huge in any Olympic sport, and there’s no doubt curling’s con-nection to the Olympics is changing the image. But, nary a pint in the lounge afterward? Yikes!

Hay is the first to admit curling takes a different approach in North America and one that hasn’t hindered the game in terms of funding. Of course, winning hasn’t hurt North Americans, particularly Canadians, either.

“I don’t think that kind of edict is necessary,” says North American coach Rick Lang of Thunder Bay, who also is Canada’s national team boss.

“All the teams here are high-performance teams that know what they need to put on the ice. I think both teams take this competition very seriously. I don’t think we’d have any issues interfering with that.

“Sure, the image is quickly changing and, actually, it has to be. It’s really seen as an athletic sport now — it shows when the players get on the ice sweeping, getting up early every morning for practise, keeping their bodies shipshape, it’s different. They’re athletes now and they know what they have to do to be able to perform out there. And they’re ma-ture athletes, too, and I don’t think we’re going to be telling them what they can and can’t do — it’s their time and their lives they’ve invested.

“I don’t know what happened to them (Team World) last year but our team behaved well and we expect the same this year.”

Lang, of course, has to be kidding. He knows about the slaughter of St. Albert. First-hand. But what happened off the ice merely constitutes a river of rumour.

“The game changed a long time ago for a lot of different teams,” says Canadian captain Julie Skinner of Victoria, a former world champ.

“From my perspective, it always was like that when we were playing. Part of it depends on the competition. A lot of people in bonspiels, have fun times and that’s fine. But when you get to the level of the Brier and Scotties, it gets deadly serious. I think the Olympics has had an effect, too.

“This (no-booze, please edict) is a tough call. Once something like this is mandated, it becomes a buy-in. And people wanting or not wanting to do those types of activities. Most of these players know where they’re at. They know themselves and their teams.”

Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud, Euro men’s champion skip the past two years, recalls the kick in the chops last time out.

“We pretty well got crushed,” he recalls, “and rumour has it the Europeans partied too hard.

“I wouldn’t know anything about that, though,” he added, with a partial straight face.See WOOD, Page 7

What in the World is this?

No booze?

LARRY WOODMorning Cup Editor


CONTINENTAL CUP: MEET THE TEAMS

North America

Captain: Julie SkinnerManager, Vision 2000 Travel, Victoria, B.C.

Played in six Scotties Tournament of Hearts for British Columbia/Team Canada, winning twice: as skip (Sutton) in 1989 (8-5 in Kelowna), 1991 (11-1 in Saskatoon, won), 1992 (9-3 in Halifax, second) and 1993 (6-5 in Brandon); as third for skip Kelley Law in 2000 (11-4 in Prince George, won) and 2001 (9-5 in Sudbury, runner-up); played in two World Women’s: as skip for Canada in 1991 (8-3 in Winnipeg, silver medal), as third for Law in 2000 (9-2 in Glasgow, Scotland, gold medal); skipped Canada at 1992 Olympic Winter Games (4-1 in Albertville, France, bronze medal);

played third for Canada (skip Law) at 2002 Olympic Winter Games (9-2 in Ogden/Salt Lake City, Utah, bronze medal); played in two Canadian Juniors for British Columbia: as third for skip Jodie Sutton in 1986 (9-2 in Noranda, won), as skip in 1987 (10-1 in Prince Albert, won); skipped Canada at 1988 World Juniors (9-1 in Chamonix, France, gold medal); won inaugural 2002 Continental Cup in Regina as member of Team North America Coach of Team North America at 2003 Continental Cup (lost, in Thunder Bay) and 2011 Continental Cup (won, in St. Albert).

Coach: Rick LangNational team coach, Canadian Curling Association.

(CCA). Lives in Thunder Bay. Played in 10 Briers, winning three: as skip in 1976

(5-6 in Regina), 1991 (7-5 in Hamilton) and 1993 (9-5 in Ottawa, third place); as third for skip Bill Tetley in 1975 (9-2 in Fredericton, won), as third for Al Hackner in 1980 (9-4 in Calgary, runner-up), 1981 (9-3 in Halifax, runner-up), 1982 (10-3 in Brandon, won), 1985 (9-4 in Moncton, won), 1988 (5-6 in Chicoutimi-Jonquière) and 1995 (6-5 in Halifax); played in three World men’s as third, winning twice: in 1982 (9-2 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, gold medal) and in 1985 (8-3 in Glasgow, gold medal) for Canada skip Al Hackner; in 1975 (7-3 in Perth, bronze

medal) for Canada skip Bill Tetley; skipped at 1981 Canadian Mixed (9-4 in Winnipeg, won); played third for Hackner at 2006 Canadian Seniors (10-3 in Sum-merside, won), played third for Hackner at 2007 World Seniors (6-2 in Edmonton, silver medal); coach of Krista McCarville team (won 2009 Pre-Trials B final in Prince George, third place at 2009 Tim Hortons Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Edmonton and 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Sault Ste. Marie); played lead for skip Doug Smith at 1971 Canadian Juniors (9-2 in Kamloops, runner-up). Coach of Team North America at 2003 Continental Cup (lost, in Thunder Bay) and 2011 Continental Cup (won, in St. Albert).

Home club: Kronau Curling Club (Kronau, SK)

Holland, a 37-year-old native of Yorkton, is executive director of the Saskatchewan Curling Association. Qualified: 2011 Cana-dian women’s (Scotties) champion.

Skipped Saskatchewan at 2010 (6-5 in Sault Ste. Marie) and 2011 (11-3 in Charlottetown, won) Scotties Tournament of Hearts, alternate for Saskatchewan in two Scotties Tournament of Hearts: for Cindy Street in 1999 (7-5 in Charlottetown) and skip Tracy Streifel in 2006 (2-9 in London); skipped Canada at 2011 World Women’s (10-5 in Esbjerg, Denmark, silver medal); skipped at 2009 Canadian Curling Trials (4-4 in Edmonton); won Pre-Trials C qualifier in Prince George; skipped at 2001 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials (4-5 in Regina); alternate for Sherry Anderson team at 2005 Trials; skipped Saskatch-ewan at 1992 Canadian Juniors (10-2 in Vernon, B.C., won); skipped Canada at 1993 World Juniors (8-3 in Grindelwald, Switzerland, silver medal); won 2008 Play-ers’ Championship; skipped at 2009 (2-3 in Yorkton), 2010 (2-3 in Medicine Hat) and 2011 (2-4 in Cranbrook) Canada Cup. First

Continen-tal Cup appear-ance.

Other members:

Third Kim Schneider, 27, born in Regina; a recreation therapist for Hopes Homes who played third for Holland at the 2008 Players’ championship (won), 2009, 2010 and 2011 Canada Cup, 2009 Olympic trials, 2010 and 2011 (won) Scotties and the 2011 Worlds. First Continental Cup appearance.

Second Tammy Schneider, 29, born in Regina; is office manager for the Saskatchewan Volleyball Association, has played with Holland for six years and was alternate for Canada (skip Marliese Kasner) at the 2003 World Juniors (11-0 in Flims, Switzerland, gold). First Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Heather Kalenchuk, 27 is a native of Edmonton, a French immersion high school teacher for Regina Catholic Schools. Played with Holland for six years. First Continental Cup appearance.

Amber Holland(Canada)

Stefanie Lawton(Canada)

Home club: Rochester Curling Club (Rochester, N.Y.)

Lank, a 47-year-old native of Midale, SK., is self-employed with Certa-Pro Painters in Lewiston, N.Y.. Qualified: 2011 U.S.A. women’s champion.

Skipped in five Worlds: in 1997 (4-5 in Bern), 1999 (7-4 in Saint John, NB, silver medal), 2002 (4-5 in Bismarck, ND), 2004 (5-6 in Gävle, Sweden) and 2011 (6-5 in Esbjerg, Denmark); U.S.A. Curling Female Athlete of the Year (2011, 1999); member, U.S.A. Curling Team of the Year (2004, 1999), third Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Nina Spatola, 23, born in McFar-

land, Wis., nursing student at Edgewood College, played third for U.S.A. (skip Erika Brown) at 2010 World Women’s (7-5 in Swift Current); skipped U.S.A. at 2006 (1-8 in Jeonju) and 2008 (3-6 in Östersund) World Juniors; second Continental Cup appearance.

Second Caitlin Maroldo, 36, born in

Utica, N.Y., resides in Roches-ter, played third for United States (skip Lank) at 2011 World Women’s; alternate for United States (skip Debbie McCormick) at 2006 Ford World Women’s (11-3 in Grande Prairie). First Continental Cup appearance.

Lead MacKenzie Lank, 17, born in Lake Forestm Ill., high school student, played lead for United States (skip Lank) at 2011 World Women’s. First Continental Cup appearance.

Home club: Granite Curling Club (Saska-toon, SK).

Lawton, a 31-year-old native of Prince Albert, SK., is a chartered accountant for Cameco Corp. Qualified: 2010 Canada Cup champion.

Skipped Saskatchewan at 2005 (7-5 in St. John’s) and 2009 (7-5 in Victoria) Scotties Tournament of Hearts; skipped at 2005 (7-4 in Halifax, third place) and 2009 (4-4 in Edmon-ton) Canadian Olympic Curling Trials; skipped at 2007 (3-2), 2008 (6-1 won), 2009 (2-3), 2010 (7-1, won) and 2011 (2-4 in Cranbrook) Canada Cup; skipped Saskatchewan in four Canadian Juniors, winning once: as Miller in 1997 (9-5 in Selkirk), 1999 (9-4 in Kelowna), 2000 (11-3 in Moncton, won) and 2001 (12-1 in St. Catharines, runner-up); skipped Canada at 2000 World Juniors (9-2 in Geising, Germany, silver medal). Second Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Sherry Anderson, 48, born in

Prince Albert, business owner, lives in Delisle, SK., skipped Saskatchewan at four Scotties Tournament of Hearts: 1994 (8-5 in Kitchener-Waterloo), 1995 (6-5 in Calgary), 2002 (10-3 in Brandon, runner-up) and 2004 (7-5 in Red Deer); alternate in 2000 (skip June Campbell) and 2005 (skip Lawton); skipped at 2001 (7-4 in Regina, runner-up) and 2005 (5-4 in Halifax)

Cana-dian Olympic Curling Tri-als; skipped

at 2009 Pre-Trials; skipped at 2003 (2-3), 2004 (4-2, runner-up), 2007 (4-3), 2008 (3-2) Canada Cup in Kamloops; played third for Ste-fanie Lawton at 2010 (won) and 2011 Canada Cup. First Continental Cup appearance.

Second Sheri Singler, 37, born in Saska-toon, office assistant, has played second for Lawton at 2005 and 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, 2005 and 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, 2007, 2008 (won), 2009, 2010 (won) and 2011 Canada Cup. Second Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Marliese Kasner, 30, born in Prince Albert, school teacher and sister of skip Lawton, played third for Lawton in 2005 and 2009 Scotties; played third in 2005 and 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, 2007, 2008 (won), 2009 and, as lead in 2010 (won) and 2011 Canada Cup; played in five Canadian Juniors for Saskatchewan (as Miller), winning twice, as skip in 2003 (12-2 in Ottawa, won), as third for skip Stefanie Miller in 1997, 1999, 2000 (won) and 2001 (runner-up); played in two World Juniors, winning once: as Canada skip in 2003 (11-0 in Flims, gold medal), as third in 2000 (silver medal). Second Continen-tal Cup appearance.

Patti Lank(USA)

Home club: Bemidji Curling Club (Bemidji, Minn.)

Fenson, a 43-year-old native of Bemidji, is a restaurant owner in his hometown. Qualified: 2010, 2011 U.S.A. men’s champion.

Skipped U.S.A. at 2006 Olympic Winter Games (7-4 in Torino/Pinerolo, bronze medal), defeating Great Britain (skip David Murdoch), 8-6 in bronze-medal game; played in six Ford Worlds for United States: as skip in 2003 (2-7 in Winnipeg), 2005 (8-4 in Victoria), 2006 (7-5 in Lowell), 2010 (8-5 in Cortina d’Ampezzo) and 2011 (3-8 in Regina); as third for skip Scott Baird in 1993 (6-6 in Geneva, bronze medal) and 1994 (5-6 in Oberstdorf). Fourth Continen-tal Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Shawn Rojeski, 39, born in

Virginia, Minn., manager of corporate qual-ity for Lakehead Constructors, Chisholm, Minn. Played in 2006 Olympic Winter Games, five Worlds, two World Juniors. Fourth Continental Cup appearance.

Second Joe Polo, 29, born in Duluth, Minn., project manager for Lakehead Constructors, played in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, four Ford Worlds. This is his third Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Ryan Brunt, 26, born in Portage, Wis., is substitute schoolteacher, played lead for Fenson at the 2011 Worlds. Sec-ond Continental Cup appearance

Peter Fenson(USA)

Jeff Stoughton(Canada)

Home club: Coldwater Curling Club (Coldwater, ON).

Howard, a 49-year-old native of Midland, ON, manages The Beer Store in Midland. Qualified: 2010 Canada Cup champion, 2011 Tim Hortons Brier runnerup.

Played in 13 Briers for Onario, winning three; as skip in 2006 (11-2 at Regina, runnerup), 2007 (12-2 at Hamilton, won), 2008 (11-3 at Winnipeg, runnerup), 2009 (9-4 at Calgary, third), 2010 (12-1 at Halifax, runnerup) and 2011 (10-4 at London, runnerup); as third in 1986 (10-3 at Kitchener-Waterloo, runner-up), 1987 (10-2 at Edmonton, won), 1989 (8-4 at Saskatoon, third 1991 (6-5 at Hamilton), 1992 (9-4 at Regina, runner-up), 1993 (11-3 at Ottawa, won), 1994 (9-4 at Red Deer, runner-up); played in and won three Worlds — third 1987 (9-2 at Vancouver, gold), 1993 at Geneva, Switzerland, gold), skip in 2006 (12-1 at Edmonton, gold). Played third in 1987 (4-4 at Calgary), 1997 (3-6 at Brandon) and 2001 (5-4 at Regina), skipped at 2005 (5-4 at Halifax) and 2009 (7-2 at Edmonton, runnerup) Canadian Olympic trials, skipped at 2006 (5-2 at Kamloops), 2008 (4-2 at Kamloops), 2010 (7-1 at Medicine Hat, won) and 2011 (5-3 at Cranbrook, runnerup) Canada Cups; who 2008 Players’ championship; third Continental, Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Wayne Middaugh, 44, born in Bramp-

ton, ON., VEO and general manager of the Port Carling Golf and Country Club, played in seven Briers, winning twice: as skip in 1998 (12-1 in Winnipeg) and second in 1993 (11-3 at Ottawa); won 1998 Ford Worlds (10-1 in Kamloops) as skip and 1993 Worlds (9-2 in Geneva) as second;

skipped at 1997 (3-6 in Brandon), 2001 (2-7 in Regina) and 2009 (2-5 in Edmonton) Canadian Olympic trials; alternate at 2005 trials; won 2009 Pre-Trials C qualifier; skipped Ontario at 1987 Canadian Ju-niors (9-5 in Prince Albert, runner-up); skipped at 2004 (3-3 in Kamloops) and 2009 (3-3 in Yorkton) Canada Cup; played third for Glenn Howard at 2010 (won) and 2011 (runner-up) Canada Cup; won 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2002 Players’ champi-onships. First Continental Cup appearance.

Second Brent Laing, 33, born in Meaford, ON., regional operations manager, Weed Man, has played second for Howard since 2004, three Olympic trials (two with Howard), seven Briers (six with Howard), 2007 Ford Words (gold medal); played in 1998 (won) and 1999 (won) Canadian and World (gold medal) and 1999 (gold medal) Juniors; five Canada Cups; 2008 Players’ championship. Third Continental, Cup ap-pearance.

Lead Craig Savill, 33, born in Lahr Germany, an Ottawa real estate appraiser; played llead for Howard since 2004, three Olympic trials (two with Howard), seven Briers (six with Howard), 2007 Ford Words (gold medal); played third in 1997 (runner-up), 1998 (won) and 1999 (won) Canadian Juniors, 1998 (gold medal) and 1999 (gold medal) World Juniors; five Canada Cups, 2008 Players’ championship. Third Continental Cup appearance.

Home club: Charleswood Curling Club (Winnipeg, MB).

Stoughton is a 48-year-old Winnipeg na-tive is a financial business systems manager for Air Canada. Qualified: 2011 Canadian men’s (Brier) champion.

Skipped Manitoba at nine Briers, winning three: in 1991 (6-5 in Hamilton), 1996 (11-2 in Kamloops, won), 1999 (10-3 in Edmonton, won), 2000 (9-4 in Saskatoon), 2006 (6-5 in Regina), 2007 (9-4 in Hamilton, third place), 2009 (10-5 in Calgary, runner-up), 2010 (7-4 in Halifax) and 2011 (11-2 in London, won); skipped Canada at three Ford Worlds, winning twice: in 1996 (10-1 in Hamilton, gold medal), 1999 (9-2 in Saint John, silver medal) and 2011 (12-1 in Regina, gold medal); skipped at 1997 (5-4 in Brandon), 2001 (5-4 in Regina), 2005 (8-3 in Halifax, runner-up) and 2009 (5-3 in Edmonton, third place) Canadian Olympic Curling Trials; skipped at 2004 (3-2), 2005 (5-2) 2007 (2-3), 2008 (2-3) Canada Cup in Kamloops; 2009 (5-2 in Yorkton), 2010 (3-3 in Medicine Hat) and 2011 (4-3 in Cranbrook) Canada Cup; won 2009 Pre-Trials A qualifier (3-0 in Prince George); skipped Manitoba at four Canadian Mixed, winning twice: in 1988 (10-2 in North Bay, won), 1989 (9-5 in Brandon, runner-up), 1991 (10-4 in Thunder Bay, won) and 1994 (6-4 in Leduc); won 2003 Players’ champion-ship. First Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Jon Mead, a 44-year-old Regina

native is the business development manager for Yes! Winnipeg. Played for Manitoba in

four Briers, winning twice: in 1999 (won), 2000, 2006 and 2011 (won); played in 1999 (runner-up) and 2011 (gold medal) Ford Worlds; played in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2011 Canada Cup, all as third for Stoughton; played third for Wayne Middaugh at 2009 Canada Cup; played third in four Canadian Olympic Curling Trials: for skip David Smith in 1997 (5-4 in Brandon), for Stoughton in 2001 and 2005 (runner-up), for Middaugh in 2009; won Pre-Trials C qualifier in Prince George, as third for Middaugh; won 1986 Canadian Juniors (12-0 in Red Deer); runner-up at 1987 World Juniors (9-2 in Victoria) as third for skip Hugh McFadyen; won 2003 Players’ Champion-ship. First Continental Cup appearance.

Second Reid Carruthers, 27, born in Winnipeg, a substitute teacher; played sec-ond for Stoughton at 2011 Brier (won), 2011 World Men’s (gold), 2010 and 2011 Canada Cup; alternate for Manitoba (skip Kerry Burtnyk) at 2008 Brier; skipped Manitoba at 2003 Kärcher Juniors (4-8 in Ottawa) and 2008 Canadian Mixed (5-6 in Calgary). First Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Ben Hebert, 28, is a Regina native and a replacement for regular lead Steve Gould who has been sidelined with suspected pneumonia. A resident of Chestermere, AB., and a regular lead player for Kevin Martin.

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How this works

RULES FOR TODAYThe rules of the World

Curling Federation (WCF) will apply unless otherwise stated within the special rules that have been defined for each discipline.

In teams and skins compe-titions (excepting the mixed skins games), the teams participating must be those teams originally named to compete in the Continental Cup. If a curler is unable to play as a result of acci-dent, injury or extenuating circumstances, a substitute or replacement player may be taken from another team on the same side. The chief umpire must approve all sub-stitutions.

MIXED DOUBLES Each side will be required

to select six doubles teams. Each team consists of two throwers (one man and one woman ). There will be no sweeping, except by these two players. Normal sweep-ing and throwing rules will apply.

POINTS• A total of six points will

be awarded for each doubles game won. In the case of a tie, each team will receive three points. Since six games are being played, a total of 36 points will be awarded.

RULES• Scoring is counted as in

normal curling; each game will consist of eight ends and ties will not be broken; each team will be allocated 48 minutes per game and will throw five stones per end.

• The player delivering the

first stone of each end must also deliver the last stone of the end for his/her team while the player throwing the second stone must also deliver the third and fourth stones for his/her team. This rotation may change from end to end and simply is determined by the player who delivers the first stone at the start of each end.

• No stones can be removed from play until after the third stone of each end and any stone or stones it may have displaced has/have come to rest. If there is a violation, the played stone shall be removed from play and any misplaced stones shall be placed back by the non-offending team as close as possible to where they originally lay.

• Two stationary stones will be positioned by the officials at the start of each end. One stone (a) will bisect the centre line, approximately eight feet in front of the rings (the exact position of this stone will be determined by the chief umpire prior to the start of the competition dependent on ice conditions). The other stone (b) will be positioned at the back of the button so that it bisects the centre line and touches the teeline. The chief umpire will notify the two team captains the exact position of (a) prior to the start of competition.

• Prior to the start of each end, one team will have the option of (a) having its stone placed as a guard, or (b) having its stone positioned in the rings behind the but-ton. If the guard position is chosen, the opponent’s stone

is positioned in the rings, and vice-versa. The team with the stone out front as a guard will deliver first and the team with the stone in the rings will deliver second (and have last rock in the end).

• Following the first end, the team which lost the previ-ous end will have the option. If an end is blanked, the team that blanks the end will for-feit the option for the start of the next end.

• Before a stone can be delivered, the throwing member of each team who is not about to deliver must be holding the broom at the playing end of the ice sheet.

TEAM COMPETITIONThis discipline involves

a game of regular curling. Each side will play a total of 12 games (six men’s games and six women’s games).

POINTS• A total of six points will

be awarded for each game won. In the case of a tie, each side will receive three points. A total of 12 team games means a total of 72 points are available.

RULES• Each game will consist

of eight ends. Ties will not be broken. Each team will be allocated 64 minutes per game. Each team will be pro-vided a 10-minute practice session prior to the start of each game (the team with last stone will have the first practice session).

• Matchups will have been announced by team captains at the Wednesday-night opening banquet.

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Continued from Page 3The winning side receives $52,000 Cdn ($2,000 per member, including captain and

coach), while the losing side gets $26,000 ($1,000 per member, including captain and coach). As well, the side that wins the final men’s Skins game will receive an additional $13,000.

“I played in the first one in Regina and I was really excited to be asked to do this,” said Skinner.

“I’ve been watching it every year. It’s a really fun event in which the people you’re playing all year and be your teammates. I mean, we had Colleen Jones (Halifax) on our team and I still remember she won a very exciting last game to put us back into the com-petition and then Kevin Martin won the final skins game to have our team win it.”

Teams of Wang, Ulsrud and Edin are World returnees while only Fenson is the only repeat skip from the 2011 North American lineup.

Both Canadian champs are rookies at this event.“It’s a new experience playing the game, with guys you don’t usually play with,” said

Stoughton, last year’s world champ.“It’s good to see the European teams again because you don’t see them that often and

it’s a chance to have some fun with them. That’s something to take away from this.“The real pressure stuff for us all starts with our provincials coming up in February. We

want to get back to the Brier again, obviously. We have to look at Mike McEwen, he’s the top seed on the planet right now, so this’ll be a good tuneup.

“Everybody has told us this really is a fun deal, so that’s how we’re going to approach it. Obviously, there’s going to be some pressure shooting and we know it will get nerve-wracking as it goes along but we’re looking forward to it.”

Adds Holland, who lost to Norberg in the last year’s world final at Esbjerg, Denmark:“We’ve had no experience here but everybody has to start somewhere. We’ve watched it

on TV and we get the idea.“There’s a certain relief from some of the pressure because this isn’t something that you

set a goal for at the start of the season. But it’s a great opportunity for us to try to make some great shots on this kind of ice because we haven’t any more events before the Scot-ties. And there’ll be pressure competing and trying to win for North America.”

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“I think they wanted us to be really prepared, and I guess some thought it was too social, so now we’re ready and we have to go for it.”What was Ulsrud’s reaction to the enforced teetotalism?

“I’m going to be polite and say ‘no comment’,” said Norway’s No. 1 skip.

“I guess we have to see how it works out. We have to play hard and well the first day and hopefully we’ll have a few more good days.

I guess it’s getting more and more serious.“This will be first time our team only uses soft drinks for

the whole event so it’ll be a new experience even for us. We may be even better, you know?”

Ulsrud says the team’s candidates for Team World received missives explaining the disenchantment of the powers that be.

“We were told they didn’t think last year was a good show,” he says. “Among the things they wanted to change — cut back on the booze and arrive early to practise. We were told it was too much of a social party last year. We don’t have rules on our own team no matter what kind of event we’re playing in. We’ll have a good meal and red wine if you like, and no other teams look at you (funny). But there are a couple of the European teams that don’t do it. So I guess it’s a move to do what everybody else does.”

Some may suspect it’s a form of punishment for past transgressions, but most doubt it.

“It doesn’t bother me,” says Canadian men’s champ Jeff Stoughton, who is checking into his first ContinentaI-Cup experience.

“I don’t drink so it doesn’t affect me at all. It’s interest-ing, though. I think they felt a little upset with the way it worked out last year, getting their butts kicked, and

they didn’t want to see that happen again. So maybe they thought this might bring everybody in line a little bit and make their team perform better . . . and time will tell.

“It was the decision of their coach and their leader. I don’t think it was the team’s decision. I know Thomas Ulsrud’s team well enough to know that they prefer a pop or two at the end of the day. It’s a little surprising. We don’t need this to turn into a super-serious event. Both teams want to win. But at the end of the day, as long as it’s a good show and as long as it’s close, that’s what really matters. And I think that’s what upset them last year.”

Does it signal a change in the nature of game, not to mention its image?

“The game has evolved, it’s a little different, so maybe that’s part of it,” the Winnipeg veteran admits. “I mean, an Olympian in most sports, whether it be downhill skiing or something else, during their season, their training, their competitions, they don’t drink. Period. I’ve known lot of top-level athletes and they just don’t drink, it’s not part of their repertoire until they’re done, until they finish their year of competition. At big events, it’s just not what they do. So should it be no different for a curler? It’ll take a little time. Maybe it’s start.”

Canadian women’s champ Amber Holland, who doubles at executive-director of the Saskatchewan Curling As-sociation, says the last time somebody told her booze was verboten at the curling rink was in her junior days, when she won the Canadian title. That was in 1992.

“I thought it was a joke to begin with,” she reacted to the issue. “This is the kind of event that provides the opportu-nity for us to get to know curlers from all over the world and, not that people have to drink but, socializing is good and I hope we still get to do that with Team World. We’re all adults here so I think people have to exercise judgment on what they need to do off the ice in order to perform on the ice.

“Obviously, over the last few years we’ve changed the persona of curlers being athletes and not just curlers.”

Holland, another rookie in this field, refuses to play a role as judge or jury foreman.

“I’m OK with that (World) team deciding it’s what it has to do to perform well. But no one pays me to play this sport — that may be different than Team World — but when I come here and I want to enjoy myself and at the end of the night, if I want to put my feet up and have my rum, I’m going to that.”

You can bet most North Americans would still drink to that!

Socialization factor still important

Thomas Ulsrud

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The Timebenders The Party Line is your personal guide to the entertainment scene at the 2012 World Financial Group Continental Cup of Curling. We’re here to keep you in touch with all the action in the Original 16 Patch. The party will be in full swing every day – and late into the night – right next door to all the action on the ice at the Langley Events Centre… and with a capacity of more than a thousand fans there’s room for everyone to join in! The doors are open daily from 11:00 am ‘til 1:00 am with a great selection of food and beverages, crazy contests and games – and some of the hottest bands on Canada’s music scene. The best part is…. admission is free with every same-day draw ticket!

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Meet the Greatest Names in the Women’s Game! What’s it like to compete at the highest level of international curling? Find out today in the Original 16 Patch when the female skips at the World Financial Group Continental Cup are featured at the Up Close and Personal interview session. Up Close and Personal has become one of the most popular features of Season of Champions events. It’s a candid forum where the players can sit back, relax and field questions from the fans. The responses are always insightful… and, in many cases, hilarious! But, make sure you show up early to get hold of a good seat.

The Junior Stars program has given 15 young curlers from local clubs the chance to share the spotlight with the players. They were selected as honourary members of the teams and will receive:

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But the best part is the opportunity to meet the team, observe them from ice-level in practice and take part in a special pre-game ceremony.

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Lunch – 11:30 am – 1:30 pm ($13)

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CONTINENTAL CUP: MEET THE TEAMS

Team World

Captain: David HayA 49-year-old Perth, Scotland, farmer, Hay played in

nine World Men’s Curling Championships for Scotland — as third for skip Mike Hay in 1984 (5-4 in Duluth, Minnesota), as second for skip Ewan MacDonald in 2004 (5-4 in Gävle, Sweden), as lead for David Smith in 1988 (8-3 in Lausanne, bronze medal), 1990 (8-3 in Västerås, silver medal), 1991 (9-2 in Winnipeg, gold medal), 1993 (8-3 in Geneva, silver medal) and 1998 (5-6 in Kamloops), for Warwick Smith in 1996 (8-3 in Hamilton, silver medal) and 2003 (4-5 in Winnipeg); played third for Scotland skip Mike Hay in 1983 World Juniors (7-5 in Medicine Hat, bronze medal); played in

eight European Championships for Scotland, winning two gold medals: as third for Mike Hay in 1982 (8-0 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland), as lead for David Smith in 1988 (7-1 in Perth), three silver medals (1991, 1998, 2006) and two bronze medals (1983, 1992); played second for Scotland skip Tom Brewster at 2006 European Mixed (7-0 in Claut, Italy, gold medal); coach of Scot-land at 2008 (silver medal) and 2009 (gold medal) World Men’s, 2008 (gold medal) and 2009 European Championships (gold medal); coach of Great Britain (skip David Murdoch) at 2010 Olympic Winter Games. First Continental Cup.

Coach: Peja LindholmA curling coach and consultant based in

Ostersund, Sweden, Lindholm skipped Sweden in eight Worlds, winning three times: 1993 (4-5 in Geneva), 1995 (4-5 in Brandon), 1997 (8-3 in Berne, gold medal), 1998 (7-4 in Kamloops, silver medal), 2000 (8-3 in Glasgow, silver medal), 2001 (9-2 in Lausanne, gold medal), 2004 (8-3 in Gävle, gold medal) and 2007 (7-6 in Edmonton); skipped Sweden in three Winter Olympics: 1998 (3-4 in Nagano/Karuizawa), 2002 (6-5 in Salt Lake City/Ogden) and 2006 (3-6 in Torino/Pinerolo); skipped at three World Juniors, winning once: 1988 (9-2 in

Füssen, silver medal), 1989 (11-0 in Markham, gold medal) and 1990 (9-2 in Portage la Prairie, bronze medal); skipped Sweden in 10 European Champion-ships, winning in 1998 and 2001, runner-up in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005; coached Sweden (skip Cecilia Östlund) at 2010 Ford World Women’s (8-6 in Swift Current), played in Continental Cup — 2002 (lost, in Regina), 2003 (won, in Thunder Bay) and 2004 (lost, in Medicine Hat). Continental Cup coach of Team World at 2008 (won, in Camrose) and 2011 (lost, in St. Albert). Sixth Continental Cup.

Home club: Dunkeld Curling Club (Dunkeld)

Muirhead is a 21-year-old full-time curler and a native of Perth, Scotland. Qualified: 2011 Euro women’s gold medallist, 2010 Euro silver medallist, 2010 World women’s silver medallist.

Skipped Great Britain at the 2010 Win-ter Olympics (3-6 at Vancouver), Scotland at 2009 (5-6 in Gangneung) and 2010 (10-4 in Swift Current, silver medal) World Women’s, alternate for Scotland (skip Anna Sloan) at 2011 World Women’s; played for Scotland in four World Juniors: as skip in 2008 (9-3 in Östersund, gold medal), 2009 (9-2 in Vancouver, gold medal) and 2011 (9-2 in Perth, gold medal), as third for skip Sarah Reid in 2007 (8-4 in Eveleth, gold medal in four European Championships: as skip in 2009 (5-4 in Aberdeen), 2010 (9-2 in Champéry, silver medal) and 2011 (10-2 in Moscow, gold medal); as alternate for Scotland (skip Kelly Wood) in 2008. First Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Anna Sloan, 20, born at

Dumfries, Scotland; a receptionist who skipped Scotland at 2011 World Women’s (4-7 at Esbjerg, Denmark, played third for skip Eve Muirhead at 2010 (silver medal) and 2011 (gold medal) Europeans; played

in three World Juniors: as third for Scot-land skip Eve Muirhead in 2009 (gold medal) and 2011 (gold medal), as alternate for Scotland skip Lauren Gray in 2010 (2-7 in Flims); skipped Great Britain at 2011 World University Games (10-1 in Erzurum, Turkey, (gold medal). First Continental Cup appearance.

Second Vicki Adams, 22, born in Edinburgh, a student who played second for Scotland skip Anna Sloan at 2011 World Women’s; played second for Sloan at 2011 World University Games (gold medal); played second for Muirhead at 2011 Europeans (gold medal), 2008 (gold medal), 2009 (gold medal) and 2011 (gold medal) World Juniors. First Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Claire Hamilton, 22, born in Dumfries, Scotland, a pharmacist who played third for Sloan at he 2011 Worlds, alternate for Sloan at the 2011 World University Games (gold medal); lead for Muirhead at 2011 Europeans (gold medal). First Continental Cup appearance.

Eve Muirhead(Scotland)

Bingyu Wang (China)

Home club: Karlstads Curling Club (Karlstads)

Norberg is a 45-year-old native of Harnosand, and the head of Actuary De-partment (Folksam). Qualified: 2011, 2006 and 2005 World women’s champion, 2010 and 2006 Olympics gold medallist.

Skipped Sweden in three Winter Olympic Games, in 1992 (2-2 at Albertville/Pralognan-la-Vanoise), 2006 (9-2 in Torino/Pinerolo, gold medal, defeating Switzer-land’s Mirjam Ott, 7-6 in an extra end final) and 2010 (9-2 in Vancouver, gold medal, defeating Canada’s Cheryl Bernard, 7-6 in an extra end final), alternate for Sweden (skip Elisabeth Högstrom) in 1988 (5-3 in Calgary, silver medal); skipped Sweden in 11 World Women’s, winning three times: 1988 (7-4 in Glasgow, bronze medal), 1989 (6-5 in Milwaukee, bronze medal), 1991 (7-3 in Winnipeg, bronze medal), 2001 (8-3 in Lausanne, silver medal), 2003 (8-3 in Winnipeg, bronze medal), 2004 (5-5 in Gävle), 2005 (13-1 in Paisley, gold medal), 2006 (12-1 in Grande Prairie, gold medal), 2007 (6-5 in Aomori, Japan), 2009 (9-5 in Gangneung, silver medal) and 2011 (11-2 in Esbjerg, Denmark, gold medal); has played in 15 European Championships for Sweden, winning seven: in 1988 (6-0 in Perth), as third for Elisabeth Högström,

as skip in 2001 (9-0 in Vierumä-ki), 2002 (10-1 in Grindelwald), 2003 (11-0 in Courmayeur, Italy), 2004 (8-3 in Sofia, Bulgaria), 2005 (11-0 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen), 2007 (10-1 in Füssen. Fifth Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Cecilia (Cissi) Ostlund, 24,

born in Karlstad; a sports/science student who skipped Sweden at the 2010 World Women’s (8-6 in Swift Current, SK); played third for Sweden skip Anette Norberg at the 2011 World Women’s (gold medal); skipped Sweden at 2008 World Juniors (8-3 in Östersund, silver medal). First Continental Cup appearance.

Second Sara Carlsson, 25, a Karlstad native and a performance consultant who played third for Ostlund in 2010 and 2008 and second for Norberg in 201l. First Conti-nental Cup appearance.

Lead Lotta Lennartsson, 24, born in Karlstad, a student who played lead for Os-tlund in 2010 and 2008 and for Norberg in 2011. First Continental Cup appearance.

Home club: Harbin Winter Sports Training Centre (Harbin).

Wang, is a 27-year-old native of Harbin won the 2009 world title and is a full-time curler at the Harbin Winter Sport Training Centre. Qualified: Top non-American skip at 2010 Olympics.

Skipped China at 2005 (4-7 in Paisley), 2006 (6-5 in Grande Prairie), 2007 (5-6 in Aomori), 2008 (10-3 in Vernon, silver medal), 2009 (12-1 in Gangneung, gold medal) and 2010 (6-5 in Swift Current) Worlds and 2010 Olympic Winter Games (7-4 in Vancouver, bronze medal; at 2005 World Juniors (3-6 in Pinerolo), at 2004 (6-2 in Chuncheon, Korea, silver medal), 2005 (6-3 in Taipei, silver medal), 2006 (6-1 in Tokyo, gold medal), 2007 (7-1 in Beijing, gold medal), 2008 (8-1 in Naseby, New Zealand, gold medal), 2009 (9-2 in Karuizawa, gold medal), 2010 (9-1 in Uiseong, Korea, silver medal) and 2011 (in Nanjing, gold medal) Pacific championships; and 2009 World University Games (9-2 in Harbin, gold medal). Third Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:

Third Qingsh-uang Yue, 26, born in Harbin, curler at the HWSTC, played with Wang in six Worlds, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, one World Junior, eight Pacific championships, the World University Games. Third Continental Cup appearance..

Second Jinli Liu, 22, born in Harbin, curler at the Heilongjiang Sports Training Centre, alternate for Wang at 2008 2009 Worlds, 2010 Olympic Winter Games, 2011 Pacific championships (gold medal); played third for China skip Sijia Liu at 2010 World Juniors (3-6 in Flims). First Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Yan Zhou, 29, born in Harbin, curler at the HWSTC, played with Wang in seven Worlds, the 2010 Olympics, 2009 World Uni-versity Games, seven Pacific championships. Third Continental Cup appearance.

Anette Norberg(Sweden)

Home club: Curl Aberdeen (Aberdeen)

Brewster, is a 37-year-old curling club manager from Aberdeen on Scotland’s North-Sea coast and a native of St. An-drews, Scotland, the home of golf. Quali-fied: 2011 World men’s silver medallist.

Skipped Scotland at 1995 World Juniors

(10-1 in Perth, gold medal); skipped Scot-land at 2011 Ford Worlds (10-4 at Regina, silver medal); alternate for Scotland (skip Warwick Smith) at 2002 Ford Worlds (8-3 in Bismarck, ND, bronze medal); skipped Scotland at 2009 European mixed (8-1 in Prague, gold medal) and 2006 (7-0 in Claut, Italy, gold medal). First Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Greg Drummond, 23, born in

Dundee, a student/curler, is playing his second season with Brewster. Second Continental Cup appearance.

Second Scott Andrews, 22, born in Irvine, Scotland, a hotel food and beverage assistant manager, is playing his second

season with Brewster, played second for Scotland in two World Juniors: for skip Glen Muirhead in 2008 (2-7 in Östersund) and for skip Ally Fraser in 2010 (9-2 in Flims, silver medal). Second Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Michael Goodfellow, 23, born in Stirling, Scotland, a student at Strathclyde University, is playing his second season with Brewster. Second Continental Cup appearance.

Tom Brewster(Scotland)

Thomas Ulsrud(Norway)

Home club: Karlstads Curling Club (Karlstad)

Edin, a 26-year-old native of Orns-koldsvik, a curling instructor and full-time participant of the game. Qualified: 2010 World men’s bronze medallist, 2011 Euro silver medallist. Fourth Continental Cup appearance.

Skipped Sweden at 2010 Olympic Winter Games (6-6 in Vancouver), 2011 World men’s championship (8-5 in Regina, bronze medal), 2009 (9-2 in Aberdeen, gold medal), 2010 (5-4 in Champéry) and 2011 (7-4 in Moscow, silver medal) European Championships; played third for Sweden skip Nils Carlsén at 2006 Worlds (6-5 in Lowell, Massachusetts); played for Sweden in four World Juniors: as skip in 2004 (10-1 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, gold medal) and 2007 (8-3 in Eveleth, silver medal); as alternate (skip Nils Carlsén) in 2005 (8-3 in Pinerolo, silver medal), as third for skip Nils Carlsén in 2006 (6-5 in Jeonju, silver medal); member of Team Europe at 2007 (lost, in Medicine Hat) and 2008 (won, in Camrose) Continental Cup;

skipped at 2009 World University Games (Winter Universiade) [10-1 in Harbin, gold medal]; coached Sweden (skip Cecilia Östlund) at 2008 World Juniors (8-3 in Östersund, silver medal)

Other members:Third Sebastian Kraupp, 25, born in

Stockholm, a student/curler, has played with Edin and/or Nils Carlsen since the 2005 World Juniors. Second Continental Cup appearance.

Second Fredrik Lindberg, 24, born in Stockholm, a student/curler, has played with Edin since 2004 Juniors and world university campaigns. Second Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Viktor Kjall, 25, born in Vasteras, a student/curler who has played for Edin since Peja Lindholm’s retirement following the 2007 Worlds. Kjall played for Lindholm in Edmonton. Second Continental Cup appearance.

Home club: Snarøen Curling Club (Oslo)

Ulsrud, is a 40-year-old Oslo native, the owner of tanning salons (Oslo SOL AS) and a curling instructor in the Norwegian capital. Qualified: Top Euro team at 2010 Olympics, 2010 and 2011 Euro men’s champion.

Played for Norway in seven Worlds: as skip in 1998 (5-5 in Kamloops), 2006 (8-5 in Lowell, bronze medal), 2007 (4-7 in Edmonton), 2008 (9-5 in Grand Forks, ND, bronze medal), 2009 (9-5 in Moncton, bronze medal), 2010 (was supposed to skip but did not compete due to a family illness) and 2011 (9-6 in Regina, SK); as alternate (skip Pål Trulsen) in 1999 (5-5 in Saint John); played for Norway in four World Juniors: as skip in 1988 (6-5 in Füssen, bronze medal) and 1989 (5-5 in Markham), as lead (skip Bjørn Ulshagen) in 1985, as alternate (skip Thomas Due) in 1992; skipped Norway in 10 Euro-pean Championships, winning twice: 1997 (5- 5 in Füssen), 2000 (4-5 in Oberstdorf), 2002 (8-3 in Grindelwald, bronze medal), 2003 (5-4 in Courmayeur), 2006 (6-5 in Basel), 2007 (10-1 in Füssen, silver medal), 2008 (8-3 in Örnsköldsvik, silver medal), 2009 (8-3 in Aberdeen, bronze medal), 2010 (9-2 in Champéry, gold medal) and 2011 (8-4 in Moscow, gold medal); skipped Norway

at 2010 Olympic Winter Games (8-3 in Vancouver, silver medal); Third Continental Cup appearance.

Other members:Third Torger Nergård, 37, born in

Trondheim, is project engineer (Cronus Engineering AS), has played for Ulsrud at 2010 Olympic Winter Games (silver medal), alternate for Norway (skip Pål Trulsen) at 2002 Olympic Winter Games (gold medal); played in eight World men’s for Norway in-cluding a silver-medal effort as skip in 2010; three World Juniors, 11 Euro championships. Third Continental Cup appearance..

Second Christoffer Svae, 28, born in Oslo, a curling instructor and event manager for the Snarøen Curling Club, played in the 2010 Olympics, four Worlds, five Euros, four World Juniors. Third Continental Cup appearance.

Lead Havard Vad Petersson, 29, born in Oslo, supervisor at the Smoothie Xchange, played in the 2010 Olympics, three Worlds, five Euros, three World Juniors. Third Conti-nental Cup appearance.

Niklas Edin(Sweden)


The Morning Cup

It wasn’t pretty.When Kevin Park knocked out Randy Ferbey in the

Edmonton-zone men’s curling playdowns at Jasper Place during the weekend, it was downright ugly.

Park, a former vice-skip for Kevin Martin at three Briers and for Jeff Stoughton at two others, took full advantage of whatever Ferbey gave him, scoring a 7-2 C-event final shellacking of what once was the most dominant back end in the world.

After opening up with a three-ender, Park put the game away with a four-ender in the third. It was handshaking time after four.

Ferbey, a six-time Brier champ and four-time world king, could not recall the last time he was not in the mix of the Northern Alberta Curling Championship, but he figures it was just shy of 20 years ago.

“There’s far greater tragedies in life than not getting to the Northerns,” Ferbey told Sun Media’s Con Griwkowsky this week. “At this moment, I’m not sure what they are.”

The next scheduled event on the calendar for Ferbey and his last-rock dispatcher Dave Nedohin is the World Curling Tour’s Grand Slam event at Dawson Creek, B.C., later this month. Now, even that’s in doubt.

“It’s hard to get motivated now,” Ferbey said.But the grizzled Ferbey, who is 52 years of age, appears

to be merely down, not out for the career count. If there were any thoughts of stepping away from the game for good, that’s less likely after this latest setback.

“I want to go on my terms, not on terms like this,” said Ferbey. “I just can’t see my last competitive game in curl-ing being getting smoked in four ends.”

Ferbey lost three qualifying finals, any of which would

have moved his team on to the Northern regionals, one step away from the Alberta provincial showdown where people like Martin and Kevin Koe of Calgary already have qualified.

The veteran skip lost 7-5 to Wade White in an A qualifier

and 8-3 to Mick Lizmore in a B qualifier, prior to his final defeat.

Qualifiers along wuth White, Lizmore and Park were teams skipped by Rob Schlender, Tom Appelman and Matt Willerton.

Ferbey crew fails to get out of cityROAD TO THE TIM HORTONS BRIER

Randy Ferbey won’t be representing Alberta at this year’s Tim Hortons Brier in Saskatoon. His squad was eliminated in Edmonton playdowns by Kevin Park.

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It wasn’t pretty.When Kevin Park knocked out Randy Ferbey in the

Edmonton-zone men’s curling playdowns at Jasper Place during the weekend, it was downright ugly.

Park, a former vice-skip for Kevin Martin at three Briers and for Jeff Stoughton at two others, took full advantage of whatever Ferbey gave him, scoring a 7-2 C-event final shellacking of what once was the most dominant back end in the world.

After opening up with a three-ender, Park put the game away with a four-ender in the third. It was handshaking time after four.

Ferbey, a six-time Brier champ and four-time world king, could not recall the last time he was not in the mix of the Northern Alberta Curling Championship, but he figures it was just shy of 20 years ago.

“There’s far greater tragedies in life than not getting to the Northerns,” Ferbey told Sun Media’s Con Griwkowsky this week. “At this moment, I’m not sure what they are.”

The next scheduled event on the calendar for Ferbey and his last-rock dispatcher Dave Nedohin is the World Curling Tour’s Grand Slam event at Dawson Creek, B.C., later this month. Now, even that’s in doubt.

“It’s hard to get motivated now,” Ferbey said.But the grizzled Ferbey, who is 52 years of age, appears

to be merely down, not out for the career count. If there were any thoughts of stepping away from the game for good, that’s less likely after this latest setback.

“I want to go on my terms, not on terms like this,” said Ferbey. “I just can’t see my last competitive game in curl-ing being getting smoked in four ends.”

Ferbey lost three qualifying finals, any of which would

have moved his team on to the Northern regionals, one step away from the Alberta provincial showdown where people like Martin and Kevin Koe of Calgary already have qualified.

The veteran skip lost 7-5 to Wade White in an A qualifier

and 8-3 to Mick Lizmore in a B qualifier, prior to his final defeat.

Qualifiers along wuth White, Lizmore and Park were teams skipped by Rob Schlender, Tom Appelman and Matt Willerton.

Ferbey crew fails to get out of cityROAD TO THE TIM HORTONS BRIER

Randy Ferbey won’t be representing Alberta at this year’s Tim Hortons Brier in Saskatoon. His squad was eliminated in Edmonton playdowns by Kevin Park.


In the end, World Financial Group Continental Cup VII was the cakewalk that appeared to be developing from

the start.Team North America refused to let down

during the penultimate evening at Servus Credit Union Place in St. Albert, erupting in the late going for a sweep of three 30-point skins competitions.

With the pendulum seeming to slowly swing in Team World’s favour, the home side managed to steal an amazing 40 points on the final ends of three matches which more than catapulted Team North America beyond the 201-point of no return and into the winner’s bracket for the fourth time in seven renewals.

Canadian champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, who had been blanked for seven ends, stole a 22-point skin in the last end against Mirjam Ott’s Swiss team from Da-vos. Kevin Koe’s Edmonton unit stole nine points to subdue Niklas Edin of Sweden. And John Morris, skipping a North Ameri-can mixed skins entry, out-drew David Mur-doch of Scotland to the button on a final-end carryover to steal yet another go-ahead nine-point skin.

In the end, it was Jones (Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn Askin) 22-8 over Ott, Koe (Blake MacDonald, Carter Rycroft, Nolan Thiessen) 21-9 over Edin and Morris (Ann Swisshelm, Marc Kennedy, Nina Spatola) 19-11 over Murdoch.

Heading into the final 55-point skins tests, the Amerks held a 217-73 lead, a spread of 16 points more than necessary to clinch the Cup victory.

The margin of victory was extended further on the final day when Canada’s Olympic teams — Cheryl Bernard (Susan O’Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire, Cori Mor-ris) and Kevin Martin (Morris, Marc Ken-nedy, Ben Hebert) — posted decisions in the 55-pointers.

Bernard’s unit clobbered Bingyu Wang’s Chinese 42-13 while Martin directed a 39-16 demolition of Thomas Ulsrud’s Norwegians.

Hence, the Amerks won skins events by a 186-74 count and a final overall record of 298-102.

“Of course we didn’t expect this,” admit-ted Team North America coach Rick Lang of Thunder Bay afterward.

“But, you know, it started early. We just set the tone the very first day when we dominated, got some confidence and picked up a roll. After that the only pressure was to attend to our own team and continue the good play.”

From the very first group of endeavours that led to a 42-12 lead on Day One of the four-day affair, the 24-player Amerk squad never was really tested until Day Three when Team World players exhibited some improvement and showed signs of prolonging the issue heading into the final exchanges.

“It was some tough last minutes for us,” admitted World coach Peja Lindholm of Sweden.

“It was devastating for us. They were a lot better than us, we just have to accept that. We just didn’t perform as well as I know we can.

“When we are on the top level of our games we play really well, but there were too many errors here.”

The victory erased a coaching defeat for Lang at the 2003 event in his home city.

“We gave that one away and it wasn’t very much fun. So it’s good to get one back,” he allowed.

“It’s too bad in the sense that it was a premature ending, but on the other hand it got really exciting in the last couple of ends Saturday night with everything going down to the last rocks like that so I thought it was fantastic.”

Rookie team captain Neil Harrison of Newmarket, Ont., lauded the competitions as “a great experience”.

“It fun and something you’re not going to experience very often so once was great,” he said.

“I don’t think there was anything we in-spired in them (the players), we just tried not to give them any more reason to be nervous than they had to be. They’re all experienced players and it was certainly their doing, not ours.”

Koe trailed Edin 9-6 after six ends but picked up 15 points with skins in the seventh and eighth ends of the skins match that turned out to be the clincher.

“We were a part of this two years ago and lost so it’s nice to come back and contribute to a win,” said Koe, the 2010 world cham-pion.

“It was a close game and I was surprised the way his last one worked out.”

Edin tried to dislodge a cluster and force a carryover with his last rock but left his op-ponent with the theft of shot rock.

“It was just nice to lock it up because, two years ago, we were brutal,” said Koe.

Earlier in Day Three, the winners racked up a 22-10 point advantage in singles com-petition, moving to within 46 of the magic winning number of 201.

“I don’t know what’s happening,” moaned World captain Pal Trulsen, who led the World to a victory two years previous at

Camrose. “We’re just not with it this year. In curl-

ing, that happens some times.”The final analysis is more likely to show

that the North American team was close to immaculate.

Take Martin’s Olympic gold-medal win-ning lineup in singles play. Of six shots played, Martin and his men were perfect in five, scoring less than the maximum five points only in the hit-and-roll shot.

Martin (Morris, Kennedy, Hebert) blitzed Murdoch’s all-star lineup 27-16 while U.S. champion Pete Fenson’s Bemidji, Minn., crew (Shawn Rojeski, Joe Polo, Ryan Brunt) defeated Edin’s Swedes 21-18 and Erika Brown’s U.S. women’s champs (Spatola, Swisshelm, Laura Hallisey) defeated Wang 11-10.

The World team received victories from Ulsrud (Torger Nergaard, Christoffer Svae, Havard Vad Petersson) 21-19 over Koe and world champion Andrea Schoepp (Monika

Wagner, Corinna Scholz, Stella Heiss) 15-14 over Bernard.

A sixth match — Ott vs. Jones — was deadlocked at 16 points apiece.

The North Americans won two of three 20-point skins matches, two of them shut-outs.

“We were in tough,” admitted Murdoch, the two-time world champion from Locker-bie, at the time.

“I think they pretty much nailed the coffin shut when we suffered those two blankings.”

Murdoch won a big 12-point skin against Fenson during the eighth and final end of their match. But Brown of Madison, Wis., blanked Schoepp, picking up all 20 points available and Koe gave the same treatment to Ulsrud’s outfit.

In earlier mixed doubles, the Americans won five of six matches and in regular team competition the homestanding men’s and women’s teams each won five of six matches.

Continental Cup Flashback • 2011 • St. Albert, Alberta • N.A. 298/World 102

North Americans steal way to cakewalk

North America 298, World 102The players and the points con-tributed

NORTH AMERICACheryl Bernard (74), Susan O’Connor (80), Carolyn Darbyshire (54), Cori Morris (74), Calgary, Canada. Total: 283Kevin Martin (84), John Morris (70), Marc Kennedy (70), Ben Hebert (57), Edmonton, Canada. Total: 282.Kevin Koe (66), Blake MacDonald (33), Carter Rycroft (33), Nolan Thiessen (47), Edmonton, Canada. Total: 179.Jennifer Jones (56), Kaitlyn Lawes (34), Jill Officer (40), Dawn Askin (34), Winnipeg, Canada. Total: 164.Erika Brown (37), Nina Spatola (45), Ann Swisshelm Silver (51), Laura

Hallisey (26). Madison, Wis. U.S.A. Total: 159.Pete Fenson (36), Shawn Rojeski (21), Joe Polo (15), Ryan Brunt (15), Madison, Wis., U.S.A. Total: 87.

WORLDThomas Ulsrud (43), Torger Ner-gaard (33), Christoffer Svae (22), Havard Vad Petersson (22), Oslo, Norway. Total: 120.David Murdoch (50), Ralph Stoeckli (14), Andreas Lang (17), Simon Struebin (17). Lockerbie, Scotland. Total: 98.Bingyu Wang (40), Yin Liu (19), Qingshuang Yue (19), Yan Zhou (19), Harbin, China. Total: 97Mirjam Ott (24), Carmen Schaefer (14), Carmen Kung (8), Janine

Greiner (8), Davos, Switzerland. Total: 54Niklas Edin (27), Sebastian Kraupp (9), Fredrik Lindberg (9), Viktor Kjall (9), Karlstad, Sweden. Total: 54.Andrea Schoepp (26), Monika Wag-ner (0), Corinna Scholz (0), Stella Heiss (0), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Total: 26

MIXED DOUBLESNorth America 30, World 6SINGLESNorth America 22 (includes 8 bonus points), World 10 TEAMS North America 60, World 12SKINS North America 186, World 74.

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Canadian curling — indeed, all of Canadian sport — lost a legend on Dec. 30, when William Garnet

Campbell, the little general of the Camp-bell curling clan from Avonlea, Sask., died 12 days before his 85th birthday.

Campbell succumbed to complications of bladder cancer that had extended to his lower bowel.

He competed in an astonishing 24 pro-vincial curling championships over a 38-year period in his prime. He was a finalist in 16 provincial men’s Brier championships (winning 10 times), six Western Canadian Masters (winning four times), and two provincial mixed championships (winning both).

He was the first Canadian curler to ap-pear at 10 Briers.

Along with his father, Sandy, and broth-ers Lloyd, Glen, Don and Gordon, Garnet Campbell skipped four provincial men’s champions and one national men’s (Brier) champ, going undefeated at the 1955 Brier in Regina which broke all previous atten-dance records.

The Campbell family was legend. The members totalled 24 Purple Hearts, emblematic of provincial men’s curling winners. They were known, too, for practis-ing on their own sheet of natural curling ice, constructed at the family farm by their

father in the Forties.In cahoots with brother Glen, Bob

Pickering, Jack Keys, Gary Ford and Jim Thomas, Garnet made six more Brier ap-pearances, playing the third and second positions.

The Campbells succeeded in making the curling club in the small (pop. 300) village of Avonlea the winningest in Canada. The brothers also were minority shareholders of the Avonlea Curling Club of Scarborough, Ont., which also won Briers skipped by Ed Werenich.

One of the primary adversaries of the Campbells on Saskatchewan curling ice was the Ernie Richardson team from Regina, four-time Canadian and world champions.

But Garnet Richardson, second on the team, admits the Campbells set the standard and provided the inspiration for Richardsons to follow.

“They got us excited about curling,” Richardson told Murray McCormick of PostMedia News.

“We played all around and they got us very interested in curling. Four years after they won, we went to our first Brier.

“Garnet was one of the people who put Saskatchewan curling on the map and we tried to keep it there,” said the 78-year-old Richardson.

The teams played many games over the years with Garnet Campbell playing a num-ber of different positions.

“He would play anywhere he thought he could help the team the most and very few skips would do that,” Richardson said.

“They were as good as any team that we played on the right ice. They were good for curling and they were good Saskatchewan people.”

Campbell’s teams won six carspiels, and after winning twice in 1950, they donated a car toward the building of a new three- sheet curling rink in Avonlea which was completed in 1951.

Doug Campbell, a nephew of Garnet Campbell, said the brothers were more than just curlers. They were also active in

baseball and hockey.“You never found anyone more fit,”

Doug Campbell recalled. “They were all farmers and they worked their tails off from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. Sports was a release valve for them.”

In 1967, Garnet, Don, Glen, Doug’s father, and Lloyd were inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. And in 1974, Garnet, Glen, and Bob were inducted into the Canadian Curl-ing Hall of Fame.

Garnet also concentrated on golf in his later years and was a passionate member of the Long Creek Golf and Country Club near Avonlea. Garnet and his wife of 47 years, DeVerne, spent the last 15 winters in Phoenix and recent years in Okotoks.

Campbell is survived by his wife, daughter Cassandra, son Vern (Tammy) and grandchildren Burjess, Kiana and Ali; brothers Lloyd, 97, of Regina and Gordon, 87, of Avonlea, a sister Margaret (Archie) Smith of Boulder, Colo., as well as 20 nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, A.N. (Sandy) Campbell and Eva Miller Camp-bell; a sister, Verna (Bill) Evans and broth-ers Glen (Fern) and Donald (Grace).

A cremation was to take place at Oko-toks. A celebration of Campbell’s life is tentatively scheduled for early April in Avonlea, where his ashes are to be dis-persed over the Campbell family home-stead.

Canadian curling loses a true legendGARNET CAMPBELL • 1927-2012

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Continental Cup trivia time

Answers

1. Name the single player in the current Continental Cup who has amassed the high-est individual-aggregate points total in previous editions.2. How many points?3. Name the single player in the current Continental Cup who has amassed the second-highest individual-aggre-gate points total.4. How many points?5. Name the single player in the current Continental Cup who has amassed the third-high-

est individual-aggregate points total.6. How many points?7. Name the player (in-cluding coaches) in the current Continental Cup who has played in more world curling champion-ships than any other.8. How many champion-ships.9. How many world titles, if any?10. How about the player here (including coaches) who has played in the second-most world championships?11. How many champi-

onships?12. How many world titles, if any?13. Of the 12 competing skips here, how many never have played in the world curling champion-ship?14. Name the skip(s).15. Name every player in the current Continental Cup (excluding coaches) who played in the world curling championship prior to 1995 (and the year(s) in which they played).

1. Anette Norberg2. 227 points.3. Glenn Howard4. 87 points.5. Brent Laing6. 81 points.7. Anette Norberg

8. 11 world championships.9. Three world titles.10. (Tie) David Hay, Torger Nergard11. Nine world champion-ship.12. Hay won one world title.

13. One skip.14. Stefanie Lawton15 Glenn Howard (1987, 1993), Wayne Middaugh (1993), Anette Norberg (1988, 1989, 1991).

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