Posts Tagged ‘women’s world curling championship’
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Eve Muirhead (Wikimedia Commons)
For the sixth time in six years a different country has won the Women’s World Curling Championship.
On Sunday morning in Riga, Latvia, Eve Muirhead of Perth, Scotland became the youngest skip in curling history to win a Women’s World Curling Championship as Scotland defeated Sweden 6-5.
Muirhead, at 22 years of age, passes Winnipeg’s Connie Laliberte, who was only 23 years of age when she skipped Canada to her first of two World Curling Championships in ironically Perth, Scotland in 1984.
The turning point in this game came in the fourth end as Swedish fourth player Maria Prytz ran into a guard and allowed Scotland to steal two points.
Canada, which has not won a Women’s World Curling Championship since Jennifer Jones’ championship in 2008, came away with the bronze medal. Ottawa’s Rachel Homan lost in the tenth end 8-7 to Scotland in Saturday’s semi-final when Muirhead stole a point and then rebounded to beat the United States 8-6 in the bronze medal game.
Tags: connie laliberte, Curling, eve muirhead, jennifer jones, rachel homan, women's world curling championship
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
After a respectable week, Team Canada finished the round robin in the Women’s World Curling Championship with a respectable 8-3 record. However, the three teams they lost to in the round robin (the United States, Scotland and Sweden) will be the three teams they will need to beat to win their first Women’s World Curling Championship since 2008.
Ontario’s Rachel Homan’s first test will be the United States (Saturday, 6:00 a.m.). If they win that game, they will have to play Scotland in the semi-final (Saturday, 11:00 a.m.) and then Sweden in the final (Sunday, 6:00 a.m.).
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Saturday, March 16th, 2013
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (David Carmichael, Wikimedia Commons)
The 2013 World Figure Skating Championships wrap up in London, Ontario today with the ice dance competition (CBC, 2:00 p.m.) an the ladies’ long program (www.cbcsports.ca, 8:00 p.m.).
Canada has a very good shot at two more medals Saturday. Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario are in second place in the ice dance, while Sherwood Park resident Kaetlyn Osmond is in fourth place after the women’s short program.
If you watched the championship on Friday, you would know that the quality of skating has been poor for a World Figure Skating Championship.
Patrick Chan of Ottawa was completely dreadful last night in winning the men’s competition, but came away with the gold medal. After a great start where he executed the quad, he fell on two triples, double footed another jump and seemed exhausted in the latter half of his performance. At the end of the day, Chan defended his world title.
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin has advanced to the playoffs at the Women’s World Curling Championship in Lethbridge. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that her team played absolutely brutal today. In fact you would be hard pressed to find any Canadian women’s team that curled worse than Nedohin’s during one day of action throughout the history of the Women’s World Curling Championships.
That’s what happens when a Canadian team loses to the lowly Italians 6-5 in an extra end and then gets absolutely pounded by Team Scotland 9-3 on Thursday night. Embarrassing? Actually, the answer is yes, when you consider the fact that 80% of curlers worldwide are Canadian. Canada has the resources to dominate but are stuck on old-fashioned principles that are causing the rest of the world to catch up.
Team Canada will now have to play the red hot Americans, winners of seven straight, just to make the 3-4 game. Yikes!
Tags: women's world curling championship
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin delivered one of the greatest comebacks by Team Canada in the history of the World Curling Championships on Monday afternoon in Lethbridge.
In the second end this afternoon, Team Czech Republic scored a remarkable five points to take an early 5-0 lead when the Canadian team allowed the Czech Republic to bunch up some stones on the right hand side of the sheet and Nedohin flashed with her final rock.
But give a significant amount of credit to Nedohin’s foursome who simply failed to give up. Team Canada scored a deuce in the third, followed by a steal of three in the fourth to tie the game at 5. Nedohin then dominated the second half of the game, constantly pressuring Czaech skip Linda Klimova with steals in the sixth, seventh and eighth ends and a 8-7 victory.
Next up for Nedohin is Team Denmark this evening. The victory this afternoon was mentally draining for Nedohin’s team, so it will be interesting to see if there is enough energy. Also watch out for the second end, as that is the end where Nedohin says the team are having “brain farts”. Canada is a perfect 4-0 now and lead South Korea and Sweden at 4-1.
Tags: heather nedohin, linda klimova, women's world curling championship
Posted in Curling |
Monday, March 19th, 2012
Team Canada is off to a perfect 3-0 start at the Women’s World Curling Championship in Lethbridge.
The question is should they be 3-0? On Sunday night, Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott missed a rather simple takeout of a Canadian stone behind a long guard.
You could make the strong argument that Switzerland lost last night more than Canada won 6-5. But at the end of the day, the Canadian team is right where they want to be, and have looked more impressive on the ice after the first three games of the Women’s World Curling Championship than they did at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
The level of competition should be a little easier over the next day or two than it was on the weekend. Team Canada has the Czech Republic and Denmark today followed by Russia and Sweden tomorrow. In fact the only team I see that will create significant problems for Nedohin between now and the end of the round robin is Scotland’s Eve Muirhead Thursday night in the final round robin draw.
Tags: eve muirhead, heather nedohin, mirjam ott, women's world curling championship
Posted in Curling |
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Anette Norberg (Wikimedia Commons)
Some of the best women’s curlers in the world take to the ice this weekend for the Women’s World Curling Championship in Denmark. Canada’s Amber Holland has qualified for the 3-4 game after a shaky start. This morning, Holland, of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, defeated Mirjam Ott of Switzerland 8-6 in the tie-breaker. Holland will go on to play Denmark’s Lene Nielsen in the 3-4 page playoff game (TSN, 3AM). And yes folks, I have my alarm set!
If Holland is successful in the middle of our night, I will sleep two hours and get up for 8am, when the Canada-Denmark winner will face China’s Bingyu Wang in the semi-final. Despite beating Wang in the round robin by a score of 8-6, Wang’s resume is impressive. She won the 2009 World Women’s Curling Championship in Gangneung, South Korea and the Olympic bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Amber Holland (Wikimedia Commons)
Is it time to panic? Is it time to question if the current status quo is the best way to determine a Canadian champion?
After Day Five of the Women’s World Curling Championships in Esjberg, Denmark, it is. Ok, Canada has a record of 4-3. Amber Holland’s rink is a game over the .500 mark. But the bottom line is that she is simply not living up to the Canadian standards when it comes to the sport.
Is it her fault? No. Amber Holland’s team have played just as well to date as they did at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. They might have played a little better in Charlottetown at the half way point in the round robin, but there were many instances where their opponent lost the game rather than Holland winning them.
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Tags: amber holland, andrea schopp, anette norberg, glenn howard, jeff stoughton, kevin martin, mirjam ott, women's world curling championship
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Lindsay Ell (Bing Images)
The Sweet Sixteen was settled with March Madness last night, and unfortunately the three teams loaded with Canadian content were eliminated in round three. Texas, Syracuse and Gonzaga are all going home.
My heart goes out to Toronto freshman point guard Cory Joseph of the University of Texas Longhorns. I, like many of you, felt he called time out before the five second clock went off in referee Richard Cartmell’s head. Joseph was given a five-second violation, and Texas lost their lead and eventually the game, 70-69 to Arizona.
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