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Canada’s Jennifer Jones needed a clutch deuce in the tenth against

China’s Bingyu Wang Monday, eking out a 10-9 win to remain the only unbeaten team in Swift Current

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It was just what the medic ordered for Canada’s Jennifer Jones. A last-rock victory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It was a big win for us,” said Jones afterward. “It keeps the momentum going. To not play our best and still come out with a win is good. You want a couple of those along the way.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

look at the good side than the bad. We still have a chance at the playoffs but we only want to think about the next win.”

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

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

That’s the classic strategy.“It’s nice to get a jump early and that’s

what we’ve been doing,” added the 19-year-old Scottish skip. “We’re a pretty good team with the lead. If it goes to the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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U.S.A sitting one back

U.S. skip Erika Brown and her crew had a good day winning twice over Germany and Norway.

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

“We have lots of games left,” added Brown, who will collide with Canada’s Jones tonight at 7:30 p.m. CT.

A steal of two in the sixth end catapulted the Yanks in front of the hot-shooting Norwegians 5-3 but Githmark managed three in the ninth to tie the match playing the 10th.

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

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

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

The Russians upended hot-and-cold Denmark 10-4, Scotland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

first teehead traffic in women’s play at the Olympic Games in Vancouver. On the heels of an opening three, the Moscow team doubled the lead in the third after a blank second with a stolen three-ender.

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

play and we know we can win.”Unfortunately for the Rus-

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

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Swedish skip Cecilia Ostlund, lead Anna Domeij and third Sara Carlsson. Tre Kronor split Mon-day, beating Japan before losing to Scotland.

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

coming.Except, with the exception of a world junior

breakthrough in 2006, the Russians have been disappointing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andrianova has chosen to experiment with 19-year-old Anna Sidorova skip-ping and throwing last bricks at the Iplex. At the Olympics, she became last-rock thrower late in the tournament.

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

“But it was exciting, too.”Andrianova has been criticized in some

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

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

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

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

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

ment.“I didn’t plan to use young girls,” she

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That may be just as well. The curling culture in Russia probably demands Rus-sian tutelage.

“It isn’t easy,” Andrianova adds.In fact . . .“Maybe I would prefer to go back to

coaching basketball.”

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As far as 25-year TSN curling commen-tator Ray Turnbull of Winnipeg is concerned, there’ve been unlimited changes to the game already.

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

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

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

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

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

“The ice does make that much difference. On the ice we curled on back in the Sixties, Seventies, a rock might have had a pit or something but it wasn’t going to bother it. There was so much invisible corn dust on the ice from the brooms, little imperfections in the rocks were no problem.

And the ice was much heavier, to boot.“It has become so much better and I think that’s why the

East has more or less caught up with the West. Because they’ve played on the better ice that was made by Shorty

Jenkins and other guys, as opposed to Saskatchewan and Manitoba where icemakers were like chefs. You couldn’t tell them anything. They made their ice and that was it. I can recall in Winnipeg when the ice in the arena was pretty bad, and that wasn’t so long ago.”

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

“There are more casual curlers coming on but less com-petitive curlers,” he says.

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

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

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“Even Jennifer (Jones) brought in Geor-gina Wheatcroft from B.C.”

Kelly Scott was taking auditions for lead from all over the country.

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

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

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

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

“From Day One, I always have referred to those players at that level as athletes. If you don’t have the physical condition these kids have to play the front end, you can’t play the game. Not today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Including a move to an eight-end curl-ing tilt.

“They’d have to look at the Free Guard Zone rule again,” he says. “At eight ends, a team gets up two or three points after three or four ends and they merely run. They’ll give you one, give you one, give you one to hold last rock. Eight ends just isn’t a curling game. Hell, we used to play 12!”

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

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

“These changes sound like a conve-nience for some people but not the game. I guess I’m too much of a traditionalist. I don’t really like them, either.”

• See MooSey’S Movin’ on –Part 2, in Wednesday’s eye opener

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QUESTIoN oF THE dayOver the span of the last three decades Canada has lost 82 games at the world women’s curling champi-onship. Representatives of one coun-try has beaten Canada 16 times over that period. Name the country.

1. Representatives of three nations have beaten Canada 13 times over the last decade. Those nations are?

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

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

4. How many.

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

6. How many?

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

8. How many?

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

10. Name the Canadian skip who

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

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

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

Qofd: Sweden1. Scotland, Denmark, Norway2. Akiko Katoh, 1999, Colleen Jones.3. Sweden.4. Seven gold.5. Sweden.6. Six silver.7. Norway.8. Nine bronze.9. 2005 at Paisley, Scotland.10. Colleen Jones, 43 wins.11. Jones is ranked No. 6 among win-ners, behind 5. Helena Blach-Lavrsen, 4. Elisabet Gustafson, 3. Anette Nor-berg, 2. Andrea Schoepp and 1. Dordi Nordby.12. Sandra Schmirler is ranked No. 9. With 29 wins.

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Skip: (2nd stones) Angelina Jensen

Home: Tarnby/Kastrup - Copenha-genBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: Insurance claims correspondentEmployer: In Alka ForsiknngAge: 36Place of birth: CopenhagenMarital status: RelationshipSpouse/Partner: MichielChildren: Karolina Maja (6)Favourite food: Chinese foodFavourite drink: Strawberry DaiquiriCelebrity dream man: Bradley CooperMost annoying celebrity: Mr. BeanAll-time favourite movie: AvatarLast movie she loved: AvatarLast movie she hated: All movies on LufthansaTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: Car keysTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends. Competed in: 94, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 World Juniors, 10 Olympics.

Third: Madeleine Dupont (Fourth

stones)Home: CopenhagenBegan curling at age: 10Delivery: RightOccupation: Communications stu-dentEmployer: None

Age: 22Place of birth: CopenhagenMarital status: Single — “men are just too much trouble”!Favourite food: CheeseFavourite drink: Water, Cosmo.Celebrity dream man: Jude Law (when he’s not cheating on his girlfriend).Most annoying celebrity: Paris HiltonAll-time favourite movie: Shawshank RedemptionLast movie she loved: Time Traveller’s WifeLast movie she hated: If she hates the first 10 min-utes, she never watches the remainder.Tattooed? Nope.Never leaves home without: Keys and makeup.Ten ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tie-breakers? Tiebreakers, for sure. Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 01, 04, 05, 07, 08 World Juniors, 10 Olympics.

Second: Denise Dupont (Third stones)

Home: CopenhagenBegan curling at age: 13Delivery: RightOccupation/title: NutritionistEmployer: Day Care CentreAge: 25Place of birth: CopenhagenMarital status: BoyfriendSpouse/Partner: Ulrik Damm

Children: Annabelle (22 mos)Favourite food: GreekFavourite drink: MilkCelebrity dream man: Tim HortonMost annoying celebrity: The

OsbournesAll-time favourite

movie: The

Millennium TrilogyLast movie she loved: An Edu-cationLast movie she hated: The Note-book (Way too sad)Tattooed? YesNever leaves home without: KeysTen ends or eight? 10 ends. Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers.Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 01, 04, 05 World Juniors, 06, 10 Olympics.

Lead: Camilla Jensen

Home: Kastrup/Tarnby - Copenha-genBegan curling at age: Uncertain.Delivery: Right.Occupation/title: Sales assistant

Employer: Monique ShoesAge: 27 (but feels like

25 forever)Place of birth:

CopenhagenMarital sta-tus: Relation-

shipFavourite food: Tortellini

with cheese and chicken in creamy tomato sauce.

Favourite drink: ScrewdriverCelebrity dream

man: Ewan Mac-Gregor/Hugh Jackman

Most annoying celeb-rity: Jessica SimpsonAll-time favourite

movie: Moulin RougeLast movie she loved: AvatarLast movie she hated: All About SteveTattooed? Yes, two.Never leaves home without: Mobile phoneTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? Tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 96, 97, 98 World Juniors, 10 Olympics.

Fifth: Ivana BraticHome: CopenhagenBegan curling at age: 12Delivery: RightOccupation/title: StudentEmployer: NoneAge: 21Place of birth: Bosnia/HerzegovinaMarital status: RelationshipSpouse/Partner: DennisFavourite food: Chevapci (skinless sausage)Favourite drink: CosmopolitanCelebrity dream man: BoratMost annoying celebrity: Sidney Lee (Danish reality star)All-time favourite movie: Monsters Inc.Last movie she loved: Cloudy With A Chance At MeatballsLast movie she hated: BoratTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: My shoesTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 2007, 2008 Junior Worlds

Coach: Renee Sonnenberg

Home: Grande Prairie, CanadaOccupation/title: Teacher, curling program co-ordinator Employer: Grande Prairie Catholic School District, Peace Curling Asso-ciation Date of birth: March 22, 1971Place of birth: EdmontonCoached: Denmark junior women (2007), Denmark women (2009), Denmark women (2010 Olympics).

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

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Skip: Bingyu Wang

Home: HarbinBegan curling at age: 16Delivery: RightOccupation/title: CurlerEmployer: Chinese Curling Associa-tionAge: 25Place of birth: HarbinMarital status: UnmarriedFavourite food: Hot potFavourite drink: Chocolate milkCelebrity dream man: Brad PittAll-time favourite movie: The Sound Of MusicLast movie she loved: AvatarTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: MP3, Her headTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 Olym-pics.

Third: Yin LiuHome: HarbinBegan curling at age: 18Delivery: RightOccupation: CurlerEmployer: Chinese Curling Asso-ciationAge: 28

Place of birth: HarbinMarital status: UnmarriedFavourite food: WatermelonFavourite drink: Iced teaCelebrity dream man: AndyAll-time favourite movie: Amen For An OlympianLast movie she loved: AvatarTat-tooed? NoNever leaves home with-out: NotebookTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 Olym-pics.

Second: Qingshuang Yue

Home: HarbinBegan curling at age: 14Delivery: RightOccupation/title: CurlerEmployer: Chinese Curling Asso-ciationAge: 24

Place of birth: HarbinMarital status: UnmarriedFavourite food: Water-melonFavou-

rite drink: Iced tea

Celebrity dream man: Jarley Zhang

Most annoying celebrity: NoneAll-time favourite movie: Amen For An OlympianLast movie she loved: AvatarLast movie she hated: NoneTattooed? NoNever leaves home without: A notebookTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tie-breakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakersExtra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 Olym-pics.

Lead: Yan Zhou

Home: HarbinBegan curling at age: 17Delivery: RightOccupation/title: CurlerEmployer: Chinese Curling AssociationAge: 27Place of birth: HarbinMarital status: YesSpouse/Partner: NoneChildren: NoneFavourite food: DessertFavourite drink: WaterCelebrity dream man:

Hong LinAll-time favourite movie: AvatarLast movie she loved:AvatarTattooed? No.Never leaves home without: MoneyTen ends or eight? 10 ends Tiebreakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends. Competed in: 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 Worlds, 05 World Juniors, 10 Olym-pics.

Fifth: Xindi Zhang

Home: HarbinBegan curling at age: 19

Delivery: RightOccupation/title: CurlerEmployer: Chinese Curling Asso-ciationAge: 25Place of birth: HarbinMarital status: UnmarriedFavourite food: DessertFavourite drink: Iced teaAll-time favourite movie: AvatarLast movie she loved: 2010Tattooed? NoNever leaves home without: HandbagTen ends or eight? Eight ends Tie-breakers or no tiebreakers? No tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? No extra ends Competed in: 2008 Mixed DoublesNo tiebreakers Extra ends or no extra ends? Extra ends Competed in: 08, 09 Worlds, 03, 04, 05, 06, 0-7, 08, 09, 10 World Juniors.

Coach: Dan Rafael

Home: Lacine, P.Q. CanadaOccupation/title: Curling coachEmployer: China Curling Associa-tionDate of birth: Nov. 16, 1961Place of birth: Mont-Laurier, P.Q. CanadaCoached: 2006 Quebec (Eve Belisle), 2007 France (Thomas Dufour), China 2008 to present.

China Harbin club also loves Avatar; watermelon and iced tea

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Yin Liu (left), Quinshuang Yue, Yan Zhou and Bingyu Wang.

Denise Dupont (left), Madeline Dupont and Camilla Jensen.

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

DRAW 101:30 p.m. Denmark vs. U.S.A.; Scotland vs. Latvia; Germany vs. Russia; China vs. Japan.

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

WEDNESDAYDRAW 128:30 a.m. Japan vs. Canada; Rus-sia vs. Norway; Latvia vs. Sweden; U.S.A. vs. Switzerland.

DRAW 131:30 p.m. Switzerland vs. Scotland; Sweden vs. Denmark; Norway vs. China; Canada vs. Germany.

DRAW 147:30 p.m. China vs. Russia; Germany vs. Japan; Scotland vs. U.S.A.; Denmark vs. Latvia.

THURSDAYDRAW 158:30 a.m. U.S.A. vs. Sweden; Latvia vs. Switzerland; Russia vs. Canada; Japan vs. Norway.

DRAW 161:30 p.m. Germany vs. Latvia; China vs. U.S.A.; Denmark vs. Japan; Scotland vs. Russia.

DRAW 177:30 p.m. Norway vs. Denmark;

Canada vs. Scotland; Switzerland vs. Germany; Sweden vs. China.

FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. Tiebreaker (if one required).1:30 p.m. Tiebreakers (if two required).8 p.m. Page One-Two playoff (or Page Three-Four playoff) and Tiebreakers (if three required).

SATURDAY12 noon. Page Three-Four playoff (or Page One-Two playoff).5 p.m. Championship semi-final.

SUNDAY10 a.m. Bronze-medal match.3 p.m. Gold-medal championship final.

Standings(through Sunday’s draws)

Draw 7 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TRussia 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 6Switzerland* 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamRussia 91 84 72 69 79 Switzerland 86 76 88 76 82

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TJapan* 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 x 5Sweden 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 2 x 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamJapan 82 91 78 63 79Sweden 93 86 88 81 87 USA 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 8Norway* 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamUSA 73 67 66 56 65Norway 76 70 80 78 76

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TLatvia 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 x 6Canada* 3 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 3 x 12%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamLatvia 57/97 63 69 80 69Canada 100/95 78 79 93 86

Draw 8 Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TCanada 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 2 10China* 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 9%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamCanada 90 74 95 76 84China 89 81 74 84 82 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TNorway 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 x x 4Germany* 1 0 2 3 0 1 1 2 x x 10%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamNorway 92 84 78 53 77Germany 80 75 66 75 74

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TSweden 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 x x 3Scotland* 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 x x 7%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSweden 83 63 77 67 72Scotland 66 72 84 88 77

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TSwitzerland 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 x x 3Denmark* 1 1 1 0 3 0 1 1 x x 8%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamSwitzerland 63/75 91 63 44 67Denmark 88 80 80 66 78 * —started game with the hammer

Draw Schedule

Team W LCanada 5 0U.S.A. 4 1Scotland 4 1Sweden 3 2Russia 3 2Germany 3 2

Team W LDenmark 3 2China 1 4Norway 1 4Switzerland 1 4Latvia 1 4 Japan 1 4

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TDenmark 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 x x x 4Russia* 3 0 3 0 1 0 3 x x x 10%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamDenmark 89 91 79 66 81Russia 75 89 70 79 78

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TChina* 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 x x 8Latvia 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 x x 2%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamChina 97 92 77 89 89 Latvia 80 67 59 67 68 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TGermany 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 2 0 8USA 1 0 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 4 12%age Lead Second Third Skip TeamGermany 75 93 86 85 85USA 90 85 74 89 84

Draw 6 Results

Norway’s Ingrid Stensrud and Kristin Skaslien


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