Edin outlasts Martin in extras at the Players’ Championship
The second night of the Players’ Championship at the Mattamy Athletic Centre, featured victories for some big curling names as well as tough luck for others.
Sweden
Boat to Sweden carried family away from war
Ilze Kalnins strained her eyes as hard as she could, in the darkness that night. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t make out that island with the cows that her father swore was there. It wasn’t her fault. She was four and a canvas sheet covered the boat carrying the Kalnins family to protect them from the sea water.
Canada beats USA for third straight women’s hockey gold; Finland takes bronze over Sweden
Marie-Philip Poulin scored goals 2:55 apart in the first period, and Canada held off the United States 2-0 to win their third consecutive women’s hockey gold, Thursday in Vancouver. The Canadians were backed by…
Martin’s experience prevails in men’s semifinal curling
It was a typical battle between youth and experience. Fresh off a huge upset against reigning world champion David Murdoch of Great Britain, team Sweden skip Niklas Edin tried to give Kevin Martin and…
Sweden steamrolls China in women’s curling semifinal
Sweden skip Anette Norberg forced team China skip Wang Bingyu to concede after the ninth end, defeating the Chinese 9-4 in semifinal action of women’s curling on Thursday at the Vancouver Olympic Centre. The rematch…
Kopecky leads Slovakia to men’s hockey quarterfinal upset win over Sweden 4-3
Tomas Kopecky scored the game-winning goal as Slovakia upset Sweden 4-3 in quarterfinal men’s hockey action on Wednesday night at the 2010 Olympic Games. Kopecky made it 4-2 for Slovakia at 9:01 of the third after scoring…
Sweden victorious in cross country relay
Sweden continued its cross country skiing dominance by catching its third gold medal in this Olympics, this time in the men’s 4 X 10 kilometre relay. The team of Daniel Rickardsson, Johan Olsson, Andres Sodergren…
Curling perfection for Martin
Canada’s Kevin Martin heads into the semifinals with a perfect record in curling, after defeating China’s Fengchun Wang 10-3 on Tuesday.
German women’s team wins gold in cross country
Germany’s team saved the energy for the last minute to make a final sprint and win gold in cross country at the Vancouver Olympic Games on Monday. Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Claudia Nystad worked together through…
Hellner wins, 3 Canadians top 10 in men’s cross-country 30km pursuit
Marcus Hellner of Sweden captured gold in the men’s 30km cross-country pursuit with a time of one hour, 15:11.4. The Canadians performed strongly led by Ivan Babikov who placed a national all-time best fifth in the event…