Shannon Kleibrink (Team Canada) versus Cassie Johnson (Team USA) .. RESULTS
END 1 - CAN 5, USA 0
END 2 - CAN 6, USA 0
END 3 - CAN 6, USA 1
END 4 - CAN 7, USA 1
END 5 - CAN 7, USA 3
END 6 - CAN 10, USA 3
END 7 - CAN 10, USA 5
END 8 - CAN 11, USA 5
(concession after 8th end)
FINAL Score … Canada 11, United States 5
CAN = Team Canada
USA = United States
Last Updated: Tue Feb 14 05:30:50 EST 2006
CBC Sports
Canada’s Shannon Kleibrink rebounded with a decisive victory in the women’s curling tournament Tuesday morning at the Torino Olympics.
Kleibrink and her Calgary rink scored five in the opening end en route to a 11-5 win in eight ends over Cassie Johnson of the United States.
Canada improved its record to 1-1 with the victory, while the U.S. dropped to 0-2.
Anette Norberg of Sweden, the reigning world champion, defeated Kleibrink 7-5 Monday afternoon in the opening draw of the women’s competition.
Kleibrink’s final shot in the first end knocked Johnson’s rock out of the house to score five.
With Canada up 7-1, the U.S. scored two in the fifth end to close the gap, but Kleibrink scored three in the next end to put the contest out of reach.
Canadian alternate Sandra Jenkins saw some action when she replaced second Amy Nixon at the start of the seventh end.
The U.S. refused to concede and instead battled on, scoring a deuce in the seventh to make it a five-point match. The Americans did call it quits, however, after Canada scored a single in the eighth end.
Kleibrink will have little time to rest as she takes on Russia’s Ludmila Privivkova Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. EST.
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Shannon Kleibrink dropped her first match of the Olympic curling tournament to Sweden’s Anette Norberg. (CP photo/ Andrew Vaughan)
Last Updated: Mon Feb 13 19:04:53 EST 2006
CBC Sports
Anette Norberg of Sweden defeated Canada’s Shannon Kleibrink 7-5 Monday afternoon in the first draw of the women’s curling tournament at the Torino Olympics.
Norberg, the reigning world champion, broke a 4-4 tie in the eighth end by drawing for two with the hammer.
Kleibrink got one back in the ninth, nailing a hit-and-stick with the final rock to cut Norberg’s lead to 6-5. But Kleibrink surrendered the hammer and couldn’t set up a steal in the tenth.
With her final shot of the match, Kleibrink came up short on an attempt to freeze her stone against Norberg’s near the bottom of the house. That gave Norberg another point and made the Swede’s last rock unnecessary.
Kleibrink and third Amy Nixon curled 72 and 76 per cent, respectively, for the match. Norberg and Swedish third Eva Lund curled 90 and 89 per cent.
Lund made a tricky shot in the fifth end, squeezing her rock between two Canadian guards to take out Canada’s shot stone on the four-foot and set up a score of two for Sweden.
Norberg won the coin toss to start the match with last-rock advantage and blanked the first two ends before scoring two in the third. Kleibrink made a tricky double takeout in the fourth to rescue two points and tie the game.
“We’re playing really well,” Canadian second Glenys Bakker said. “The only difference between the win and the loss was the coin toss. We were trading points for most of the game.”
In other women’s first-draw action Monday afternoon, Norway’s Dordi Nordby defeated Cassie Johnson of the United States 11-6, while defending Olympic champion Rhona Martin of Great Britain edged Denmark’s Dorthe Holm 3-2. Mirjam Ott of Switzerland trounced Diana Gaspari of Italy 11-4 in eight ends.
Women’s play resumes with two draws on Tuesday. Canada will take on the U.S. in the morning and Russia in the evening.
The second draw of the men’s tournament goes Monday evening, with Canada’s Brad Gushue playing his first game of the tournament, taking on Germany’s Andy Kapp.
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Brad Gushue and team are playing Germany *RIGHT NOW!*
If you are seeing this post in “live” time (it’s 19:46am local torino time, 1:46 pm ET) .. then you can click on the above link and watch the results be reflected in “live” time.
TSN is airing the game live .. btw ..
END 1 - CAN 0, GER 2
END 2 - CAN 2, GER 2
END 3 - CAN 2, GER 4
END 4 - CAN 5, GER 4
END 5 - CAN 6, GER 4
END 6 - CAN 7, GER 4
END 7 - CAN 8, GER 4
END 8 - CAN 8, GER 5
END 9 - CAN 10, GER 5
(concession by Germany after 9th end)
FINAL: Canada 10, Germany 5
Shannon Kleibrink and team are playing Sweden *RIGHT NOW!*
If you are seeing this post in “live” time (it’s 14:25am local torino time, 8:22 am ET) .. then you can click on the above link and watch the results be reflected in “live” time.
I don’t know why CBC is not airing this game live … /// oops TSN is airing the game btw
END 1 - it’s still tied at no score
END 2 - it’s still tied at no score
END 3 - CAN 0, SWE 2
END 4 - CAN 2, SWE 2
END 5 - CAN 2, SWE 4
END 6 - CAN 2, SWE 4
END 7 - CAN 4, SWE 4
END 8 - CAN 4, SWE 6
END 9 - CAN 5, SWE 6
END10 - CAN 5, SWE 7
FINAL Score … Sweden 7, Canada 5
CAN = Team Canada
SWE = Team Sweden
(by the way .. Canada vs Sweden .. have you seen the Hammerfall #2 video with the Swedish team in it? Read about it HERE. yet? 
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