Issue 6 – Thursday, March 25, 2010 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.Issue 6 – Thursday, March 25, 2010 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.

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With two wins Wednesday, Cecilia Ostlund’s Swedish crew has climbed right back into the hunt at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship.

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Wiley vet hands Canada its first Swift Current defeat

Canada and Scotland will head to the wire neck-and-neck with a collision

for round-robin bragging rights on tap tonight at the Credit Union Iplex and playoffs looming in the Ford World women’s curling championship.

Scotland’s Eve Muirhead, who calls Blair Atholl home, moved even with Canada on Wednesday night, upending Erika Brown of the U.S.A. 7-4.

The win assured Muirhead of playoff action following today’s final three round-robin draws.

“We’re looking forward to playing Canada,” said Muirhead. “Everyone likes to play against the home nation.

“It’s going to be a tough game for us. Jennifer (Canada skip Jones) is a great player. We’ll try to eliminate all the little things go-ing on round about us and really focus on what we have to do.”

Muirhead said she never has beaten Jones in “three or four meetings”.

Meanwhile, Brown said she wouldn’t change anything in terms of strategy in her run for a playoff berth today.

“We’ll stick with what we’re doing, we just have to make more shots,” said the U.S. skip.

With the top teams cruis-ing along at 8-and-1, the loss for Brown left the Yanks in a three-way snarl at 6-and-3 with Sweden’s Cecilia Ostlund and Germany’s Andrea Schoepp, who dealt Canada its only defeat of piece earlier in the day.

Six teams remained with at least an outside shot at the four playoff berths and here’s how they’ll play it out today:

Canada (8-1) — 8:30 a.m. Russia (4-5), 7:30 p.m. Scotland (8-1)

Scotland (8-1) — 1:30 p.m. Russia (4-5), 7:30 p.m. Canada (8-1)

U.S.A. (6-3) — 8:30 a.m. Swe-den (6-3), 1:30 p.m. China (5-4)

Sweden (6-3) — 8:30 a.m. U.S.A. (6-3), 7:30 p.m. China

(5-4)Germany (6-3) — 1:30 p.m.

Latvia (1-8), 7:30 p.m. Switzer-land (2-7)

China (5-4) — 1:30 p.m. U.S.A. (6-3), 7:30 p.m. Sweden (6-3)

In other late action on Wednes-day, defending champion China won its fourth straight match and remained an outside threat for a playoff or tiebreaker by stealing a 9-7 extra-end verdict from Russia.

It was China’s second straight game-theft of the day.

Germany followed up on its afternoon win over Canada by thumping Japan’s Moe Meguro 7-5 and Denmark pummelled rookie Latvia 13-1.

“I feel so great for my team,” said Chinese skip Bingyu Wang. “Tomorrow may be the last two games, but we don’t have a good start so I hope we have a good ending.”

China led early in a topsy-turvy tilt but wound up with two rocks in the four-foot in an 11th end and Wang played a perfect last-rock guard. Russian skip Anna Sidorova questionably eschewed an open button with the out-turn and chose an in-turn to draw up to the Chinese pair but the rock hung out and rubbed away leaving both enemy stones standing up for the win.

“I hope we will go into the playoffs,” said Wang, who won

the title a year ago at Gangneung, Korea. “But I think we should be our ourselves.

“We have shown a mentality and good teamwork to come back. Every time you should do your best and it doesn’t matter how many games you lose.”

China earlier stole the 10th end to nudge Norway’s Linn Githmark 8-7 when the Norwegian skip was heavy on a last-rock draw to the four-foot ring..

Canada’s Jones suffered her first defeat when German skip Scho-epp traversed a guard with her last shot and executed a precise takeout for an 8-7 extra-end win.

“I love to play here in Canada,” said Schoepp, a veteran of 17

world championships, afterward. “It’s a great atmosphere. Canadian spectators are really great and re-ally friendly and really fair.”

What was it like to beat Team Canada in Canada?

“I have no idea. Ask them,” she said with a chuckle.

“I never think about winning the event. I go there and hope we are doing good and we will see how it ends. But I never think about winning it. I hope to win but I never think about what the feeling would be. “

Schoepp has won the title once, back in 1988.

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Schoepp on a roll; Scotland still sitting on

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Garmisch Partinkirchen’s Andrea Schoepp beat Canada 8-7 in an extra end Wednesday.

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“I want to win and it doesn’t matter who I’m playing,” she said. “There are one, two, three teams that I really think about who I’m playing, Canada is not in that group. The rest? I just want to win.

“It is not about rivalries but some teams I’m kind of having problems with. It’s nothing more than the way those teams play. It makes it more difficult to play against them and you have to be aware of that.”

Jones took a three-count in the third for a 3-1 lead but Germany quickly replied with three of their own in the fourth. Canada again took the lead with a fifth-end deuce and maintained control through the ninth end when Scho-epp finagled a go-ahead deuce.

Germany then forced Canada to settle for the tying point in the 10th end. Schoepp executed a clutch runback takeout with her first of the extra. Jones attempted an in-turn bury but her rock over-curled and was left vulnerable to Scho-epp’s last out-turn.

“It wasn’t our sharpest game but I thought they played well and she made a nice shot to win,” said Jones.

“We’ll have to come out and win both our games tomorrow and see what happens from there. This is disappointing, but you’re going to lose a game here and there.”

Jones zeroed in on “a couple of bad misses”.

“I had a shot win the game, it was a hard shot, but you don’t like to miss those.

“My last draw had great weight and a perfect line and it over-curled and gave her shot. That’s

the way it works. “They made some nice shots to

get their three, I made an unchar-acteristic miss, a runback. There were a couple of uncharacteristic misses by us. But I’m sure we’ll bounce back.”

Muirhead rallied for a 9-7 conquest of Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher on an adjacent sheet of ice.

Also remaining in the playoff hunt was Ostlund’s young Swed-ish team which held off a strong rally by Denmark and won 10-9 in overtime with a perfect last-shot draw to backing in the four-foot.

Muirhead scraped and clawed from behind all afternoon against the Swiss who took control with three in the fifth. But by the time the 10th end arrived, the Scots owned the hammer in a tie situa-tion and faced a routine hit for the decision.

“That was the first 10th end

in quite a few games,” said the 19-year-old Scottish skip, “but it’s probably good for us to have that — making sure we go right to the last stone, and when the last stone has to be played, that’s the way we expect every game to go.”

Muirhead admitted she strug-gled with the playing surface early-on.

“It was sitting straighter at weight, and swinging bigger at draw weight,” she said, “but we cottoned onto that in the second half of the game and that’s when we really bounced back.

“It was really important for us, that win. I think that guarantees us a playoff.”

Sweden constructed a 7-2 lead on Denmark in four ends and led 9-5 after seven before the unpre-dictable Danes battled back with four points in the last three ends to force overtime.

“Denmark played really well so

this win helps our confidence,” said Ostlund.

“They are unpredictable. They didn’t play well the first couple of ends but then they started to play and we gave them some chances. But, in the end, we played OK.”

The Canadians breezed to an-other easy victory in the morning, walloping Moe Meguro’s Japa-nese outfit 10-2.

The U.S., meanwhile, re-bounded from Tuesday’s defeat to Canada, shrugged off early-morning cobwebs and defeated Switzerland’s Corinne Bourquin-skipped team 9-7.

Sweden posted a 7-4 conquest of rookie Latvia and Githmark dragged Russia back into a group of four-time losers with a skin-tight 4-3 decision.

The Americans continued to dance on a tightrope in their match, trailing 3-0 after two ends.

“We try to make it exciting,

that’s for sure,” quipped Brown. “I got off to a bad start, missed some shots early, got in a jam and had to fight back.

“Normally, I like the morning but it was a little slack today. It was a short night coming off that Canada game.”

Brown said her string of past tight games should leave her team in good stead for a possible playoff run.

“Every single game, we’ve been under the gun,” she said. “We’ve come out on top of most of them and I think it bodes well for us. It’s good momentum to keep us going through the week.”

Nobody has been forced to play more last rocks than Brown over the first five days of the tourna-ment.

“That doesn’t hurt,” she said. “You go back and remember all those last rocks you made and it helps in tight situations later on.”

WOOD From Page 3

‘I want to win’

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She’s Canadian-born (Sussex, N.B.), has advanced to within one game of playing in a Canadian curling championship, and is play-ing in her third Ford Worlds . . . for Germany!

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“My dad told me, ‘don’t speak about the calendar’,” says the 27-year-old Ottawa native who currently resides in Brussels, Belgium, and works in a health centre.

“All the feedback from that calendar has been positive,” she says.

Will she pose again?“Nope,” she says. “Done with that.”Her father worked for the RCMP, then

CSIS. He moved to Belgium with NATO in 2000.

“That’s all I can tell you,” she quipped a while back. “Stop there!”

All right. Enough of foreign intrigue. Her mother was German, hence her qualification for a German passport and a place on veteran Andrea Schoepp’s team at third.

“I was doing a lot of curling camps in Germany over the summers,” she recalls. “I was flying over there from Canada for the camps. Andrea Schoepp knew that I was going to be in Europe and she con-tacted me.”

The German papers came through three years ago. But Robillard lives in Belgium where they speak French and Flemish. Robillard is fluent in French.

She started curling in Ottawa at the age of seven. A teammate, although two years older, was Dawn Askin, the current 29-year-old Canadian lead.

“We grew up together. We both played for Jenn Hanna on a junior team.”

Robillard played two years as a lead for Hanna, the 1998 Ontario junior champion, Canadian junior runner-up and 2005 Scot-ties runnerup to Jennifer Jones.

Then she skipped two years in junior with Hanna’s sister Stephanie in tow, played in four provincial championships and lost in the 2003 Ontario final.

“We’re good friends,” said Askin when they first reunited two years ago at the Vernon Worlds. “I talk to her now and then. It’s kind of hard as she’s living over there.

“Mel and I actually went to Switzerland when we played with Hanna. It was 2000, we won a ‘spiel in Toronto and we got to go over there for about 12 days. We had a lot of fun there. We also played in that provincial junior final together and we

lost. Those were a fond memories.”It was suggested that old buddies play-

ing against one another at the Ford Worlds might constitute something special.

“Not really,” Robillard said with a shrug. “I look at them as just another team.”

Robillard has a new positive memory from Wednesday afternoon when her team handed Canada its first loss of the latest Ford tournament.

And an even fonder memory? Playing in the Vancouver Olympics.

“That was amazing,” Robillard said. “It was a great experience. I loved it. But we were a little disappointed in our record.”

Germany has improved on that at the Iplex with two games to go.

Playing on the current German team has presented certain logistical problems.

“I travel down to Bavaria some week-ends,” she said. “We practise in Andrea’s hometown of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. And then we play tournaments every other weekend in Europe.”

Robillard probably will take most of next year off from curling. She’s moving to Madrid with her Spanish boyfriend, Antonio De Mollinedo.

“I’ll take most of a year off to see how things go,” she said on Wednesday.

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pressure of expectations, check out the young Swedish team at the Credit Union Iplex directed by 22-year-old sports sci-ence student Cecilia (Cissi) Ostlund.

These Swedes (average age 22) are be-ing trumpeted as the heir apparent in their home country to two-time Olympic gold medallist Anette Norberg.

Talk about a tough act to follow!Norberg, who now lives in a Stockholm suburb, and her

team of Eva Lund, Cathrine Lindahl and Anna (Svard) Le Moine, have won two world titles as well that spectacular Olympic-gold double.

And Norberg knows all about expectations, too. For more than a decade during the Nineties, she tossed rocks in the shadow of the only four-time winner in world-cham-pionship history — Elisabet Gustafson.

Once Gustafson retired, Norberg battled another three or four years before finally connecting in a world final at Paisley, Scotland, in 2005.

Since then, Norberg has been legendary, inside and outside of Sweden. The story goes that her team will make an announcement regarding its future plans within two months. For certain, Norberg’s sister Lindahl, the second player, will retire. Observers predict at least some of the remaining three will form a new team for the future.

Still, this will be a relatively long-in-the-tooth bunch in a sport that is starting to accentuate and celebrate youth. And this is where Ostlund and her team of Sara Carlsson, Anna Domeij and Lotta Lennartsson come in.

“Coming here,” says coach Peja Lindholm, “a playoff finish for this team was not important. But now that they are here, and playing well, and realizing how good they

are, the playoffs suddenly are very important.

“But,” adds the three-time world men’s champion skip and rookie international coach, “everything here is a lesson for them.”

Strangely, Lindholm hadn’t met this team prior to this assignment. Swedish national coach Stefan Hasselborg dialled Peja’s number “just before the Olym-pics” and asked Sweden’s most celebrat-ed male curler to take the coaching reins of the Ostlund team.

“I have two different roles here, one to be the coach, the other to be the national team coach,” said Lindholm. “I’m work-ing alone here which is unusual, there

are usually a team coach and a national coach. But that’s good, and I love to be here as a coach.”

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Cissi and the girls have left a profound impression even on their own new mentor.

“I am surprised that they are so calm,” says Lindholm. “I can’t take credit for that as a coach. I thought they might be a little more anxious, a little more and up and down. But, especially Cecilia, she’s very calm. She has what it takes to be a top player. Definitely, she can be another Norberg.”

And Ostlund isn’t fazed one iota when confronted with the proposition.

“That’s our plan,” she says, matter-of-factly. “We’re planning on taking over the throne.

“There’s no pressure attached to that. Watching Anette at the Olympics makes me want to play, to be her, do what she can do. So no pressure. Just focus.”

The tall blonde from Karlstad is looking at a long-term project here, too.

“I’ll give it all my life,” she says with a wide smile. “I love curling. I never want to quit. You’ll never get rid of me.”

This is not the only promising young team in Sweden but, says Lindholm, it is the team most likely at the moment.

Another possible usurper to Norberg’s throne is Stina Viktorsson, from Gus-tafson’s far-north hometown of Umea, who represented Sweden at the Vernon Ford Worlds two years ago and amassed a 6-5

record.“I would say Cecilia’s team really works

hard to be at the next events,” Lindholm says. “These girls really know what it takes to be up there. I’m not so sure about Stina’s team, how hard they are working. But so far it looks like Cecilia’s team will be the next big team.”

He says two other young teams are pok-ing their heads above the Swedish horizon.

“They are about the same age as Ceci-lia’s team, and have improved a lot this season. Let’s see what they will do next

season.” Karin Rudstrom, daughter of former

world champion Bjorn Rudstrom who played Ragnar Kamp in 1977, skips this outfit from Uppsala. Then there’s current world junior champion skip Anna Hassel-borg, recent winner over Ottawa’s Rachel Homan in the final at Flims, Switzerland.

Lindholm, who lives in the northern city of Ostersund, has coached in differ-ent sports but his lone curling connection was the victorious Team World at the 2008 Continental Cup at Camrose.

“Certainly,” he admits, “this is the sport I would prefer to coach at this level.”

Naturally. It’s his sport. And he has the credibility as a multiple champion.

“I don’t know where I stand in terms of the future,” he says. ”Stefan is the national coach. I don’t know if he will retire. I don’t know what the plans are. I haven’t talked to anybody about it. But I love this and, hopefully, I can do this again.”

He just might be the perfect coach for Cissi Ostlund’s team, too, based on the way it’s going at the Iplex.

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Three-time world champion Peja Lindholm is coaching the Cecilia Ostlund rink in Swift Current. He says Ostlund has the capability to become another Annette Norberg.

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1. How many wins and how many defeats?

2. Four nations have iced teams that have recorded 10 or more round-robin wins against Canada in the history of the world women’s curl-ing championship. Name the four nations.

3. Name the skips of Canadian teams that lost sudden-death final matches for the world women’s championship.

4. Name the only skip to defeat Can-ada on the first occasion the world women’s curling championship was staged in British Columbia.

5. Her home country?

6. Name the curler who has appeared in more world women’s championships than any other but has never skipped in a world cham-pionship.

7. How many championships?

8. She has played for which country?

9. Which positions has she played on the champion teams of that country?

10. What is the best-ever Worlds fin-ish by a team on which she played and who skipped the team?

11. Who won that rendition of the world championship?

12. Who finished second?

QofD — Andrea Schoepp1. 92 wins, 74 defeats.2. Denmark, Scotland, Sweden, Nor-way.3. Susan Seitz, Heather Houston, Julie Sutton (Skinner), Connie Laliberte, Col-leen Jones.4. Anne Jotun-Bakke.5. Norway.6. Malene Krause7. She has played in 14 world champi-onships.8. Denmark.9. She played third eight times, second four times and lead twice.10. She won a bronze medal in 2001 playing third for Lene Bidstrup.11. Colleen Jones won in 2001.12. Anette Norberg finished second in 2001

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Skip: Erika Brown

Home: Oakville, OntarioBegan curling at age: 8Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Physician assistantEmployer: Stone Church Family Health CentreAge: 37Place of birth: Madison, WisconsinMarital status: MarriedSpouse: Ian TetleyFavourite food: Ian’s BBQ chickenFavourite drink: Rickard’s WhiteMost annoying celebrity: Jay LenoLast movie she loved: Super BadAll-time favourite movie: Slum Dog MillionaireTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: iPhoneTen ends or eight? 10Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? TiebreakerExtra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: Six World Juniors, six Worlds (95, 96, 99, 02, 04, 10), 88, 98 Olympics.

Third: Nina SpatolaHome: Madison, WisconsinBegan curling at age: 10Delivery: RightOccupation: Nursing studentAge: 21Place of birth: MadisonMarital status: Single

Favourite food: Fettucini AlfredoFavourite drink: Diet CokeCelebrity dream man: Ryan Braun (Milwaukee Brewers left fielder)Most annoying celebrity: Janice DicksonAll-time favourite movie: Boon-dock SaintsLast movie she loved: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gal-axyLast movie she hated: Night TrainTattooed? YesNever leaves home with-out: cellphoneTen ends or eight? 10Tiebreakers or no tie-breakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 06, 08 World Juniors

Second: Ann Swisshelm

Home: ChicagoBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: CurlerAge: 42Place of birth: Middletown, OhioMarital status: MarriedSpouse/Partner: Sean SilverChildren: NoFavourite food: Linguine with clam sauceFavourite drink: Dark & Stormy (dark rum and ginger beer)Celebrity dream man: Michael

JordanMost annoying celebrity: Jay LenoAll-time favourite movie: Bull Durham

Last movie she loved: Super Bad

Last movie she hated: Any horror movie

Tattooed? Yes!!Never leaves home without: My KindleTen ends or eight? TenTiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers - play ‘til you dropExtra ends or no extra ends? Most exciting thing - an extra end Competed in: 98, 01, 03 Wprlds, 02 Olympics

Lead: Laura Hallisey

Home: Medfield, Mass.Began curling at age: 10Delivery: RightOccupation/title: StudentAge: 23

Place of birth: BostonMarital status:

SingleFavourite

food: Spa-ghettiFavourite

drink: Apple juice

All-time favou-rite movie:

Shawshank RedemptionLast movie she

loved: All Saints DayLast movie she

hated: Death TrapTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Cell phoneTen ends or eight? 10

ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra Ends Fifth: Jessica SchultzHome: St. Paul, Minn.Began curling at age: 13Delivery: Right

Occupation/title: Physical therapist assistantEmployer: Twin Cities OrthopedicsAge: 25Place of birth: Anchorage, AlaskaMarital status: In a relationshipFavourite food: Tacos/ Mexican foodFavourite drink: Coke/ red wineCelebrity dream man: Patrick DempseyMost annoying celebrity: Carrot TopAll-time favourite movie: How to Lose A Guy in 10 DaysLast movie she loved: BlindsideLast movie she hated: Saw (all of them)Tattooed? FourNever leaves home without: House keyTen ends or eight? 10 ends for sure Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? TiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 05 World Juniors, 05 Worlds, 06 Olympics

Coach: Bill Todhunter

Home: Menasha, WisconsinOccupation/title: National sales managerEmployer: Delta LightDate of birth: Oct. 10, 1959Place of birth: Cranbrook, B.C.Coached: 1st year, played lead for Jason Larway in 2004 Worlds (2-7); Third for Todd Birr in 2007 Worlds (8-5).

USA: American ladies like their pasta and curling ‘til they drop’

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Skip: Linn Githmark

Home: Blair, OsloBegan curling at age: 9Delivery: RightOccupation/title: International Affairs/Language StudentAge: 27Place of birth: OsloMarital status: SingleFavourite food: Spinach lasagnaFavourite drink: BeerCelebrity dream man: Hu JintaoMost annoying celebrity: Sarah PalinLast movie she loved: Let the Right One InLast movie she hated: All About SteveTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: ShoesTen ends or eight? TenTiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? No extra endsCompeted in: 04, 05 Worlds, 97,98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04 World Juniors.

Third: Henriette Lovar

Home: SnarøyaBegan curling at age: 16Delivery: RightOccupation: Graphic designerEmployer: Bicoda AdvertisementAge: 30

Place of birth: OsloSpouse/Partner: Jorunn Friis ResetChildren: Two cats and a dogFavourite food: Doesn’t matter as long as the drinks are goodFavourite drink: Wine or beerCelebrity dream (wo)man: Alicia Moore (Pink)Most annoying celebrity: Sarah PalinAll-time favourite movie: DISLast movie she loved: MilkLast movie she hated: Pearl HarbourTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: KeysTen ends or eight? Either Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? DependsExtra ends or no extra ends? DependsCompeted in: 09 Worlds, 99, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01 World Juniors

Second: Ingrid Stensrud

Home: OsloBegan curling at age: 15Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Economics stu-dent

Age: 23Place of birth: Oppdal

Marital status: BoyfriendFavourite food: TacosFavourite drink: Bonaqua LemonLast movie she loved: Sherlock Holmes

Last movie she hated: It’s All About Smith (I always fall asleep at movies)Tattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Phone

Ten ends or eight? Eight ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? TiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 09 Worlds, 05, 06, 07 World Juniors

Lead: Kristin SkaslienHome: OppdalBegan curling at

age: 12

Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Logistic

engineering/technology management studentAge: 24Place of birth: TrondheimMarital status: SingleFavourite food: WokFavourite drink: Water, milkTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Con-

tact lensesTen ends or eight? Eight Tiebreak-ers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra Ends Competed in: 06, 09 Worlds, 02, 05, 06, 07 World Juniors.

Fifth/Coach: Kristin Tosse

LovsethHome: VinterbroBegan curling at age: 15Delivery: Right Occupation/title: Administrative secretaryEmployer: Carl Evensen EFTFAge: 36Place of birth: LillehammerMarital status: MarriedSpouse/Partner: KjetilChildren: Sandra, 6, Stina, 4Favourite food: My homemade pizza (Norwegian pizza baking champion 2007)Favourite drink: Pepsi MaxMost annoying celebrity: Mr. BeanTattooed? Two, green frog and Chinese signNever leaves home without: ShoesTen ends or eight? EightTiebreakers or no tiebreakers? TiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 09 Worlds, 92, 93, 94, World Juniors, 98, 02 Olym-pics.

Norway: Young club but plenty of experience; not big Sarah Palin fans

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Kristin Skaslien (left), Henriette Lovar, Linn Githmark and Ingrid Stensrud.

Ann Swisshelm (left) and Laura Hallisey.

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

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Standings(through Wednesday’s draws)

Draw 13 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TSwitzerland 0 1 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 7Scotland* 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSwitzerland 70 65 73 83 73Scotland 80 79 73 74 76 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TSweden* 3 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 10Denmark 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 2 1 1 0 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSweden 81 88 85 82 84 Denmark 93 89 92 65 85 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TNorway 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 7China* 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNorway 87 88 88 73 84China 81 75 78 86 80

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TCanada 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 7Germany* 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamCanada 84 80 86 74 81Germany 81 80 80 79 80

Draw 14 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TChina 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 9Russia* 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamChina 90 76 80 82 82Russia 97 81 80 65 81

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TGermany* 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 x 7Japan 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 x 5%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamGermany 88 78 85 72 81Japan 94 69 80 75 79

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TScotland 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 2 0 x 7USA* 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 x 4%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamScotland 80 81 83 89 83USA 90 79 80 69 80

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TDenmark* 4 3 2 0 2 2 x x x x 13Latvia 0 0 0 1 0 0 x x x x 1%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamDenmark 83 85 81 85 84Latvia 83 67 48 31 57 * —started game with the hammer

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Team W LCanada 8 1Scotland 8 1U.S.A. 6 3Sweden 6 3Germany 6 3China 5 4

Team W LRussia 4 5Denmark 4 5Norway 3 6Switzerland 2 7Latvia 1 8 Japan 1 8

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TJapan 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 x x x 2Canada* 2 0 3 1 0 1 3 x x x 10%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamJapan 93 75 66 64 75Canada 98 80 89 95 91

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TRussia* 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 x 3Norway 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamRussia 88 60/93 68 79 78Norway 79 85 73 68 76

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TLatvia* 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 x 4Sweden 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 x 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamLatvia 90 81 78 74 81 Sweden 92 94 91 91 92 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TUSA 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 3 x 9Switzerland* 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 x 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamUSA 81 81 79 79 80Switzerland 90 84 70 72 79

Draw 12 Results

Chinese third Yin Liu

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and nobody knows that better than the team’s coach and alternate Kirstin Tøsse Lovseth. Not only does she love pizza, she was the 2007 Norwegian pizza baking champion.

At an annual food expo in Olso, Lovseth has twice entered her homemade savoury pie and in ‘07, the food judges determined her pizza the best in the land.

So what was on it?“It was Dijon mustard all over the bot-

tom, no tomato sauce,” she says with an engaging smile.

“Then there is seranno (Spanish ham), then I had tomato and squash (zucchini),” says the Lillehammer native.

She then layered the ingredients in se-quence to create a tricolour/circular pattern, crumbled blue cheese on top, a little drizzle of olive oil and voila!

“I love pizza, and I love to cook,” she said.

The administrative secretary has repre-sented her country at the ‘96, ‘97, ‘98, ‘99 ‘00, ‘01, and ‘09 Worlds, the ‘92-94 World Juniors and the ‘98 and 02 Olympics.

Her creativity off ice and in the kitchen could lead to more culinary medals, too.

Imagination is the key, she says.“When people first looked at it (toppings)

they didn’t really want to try it, but then . .”Big smile.Yummy!

•••Norwegian coach and alternate Kirstin Tøsse Lovseth won the 2007 Norwegian pizza baking champion-ship with her special creation (inset).

Norway’s queen of the pizzaFRED RINNEThe Eye Opener