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Eight Ends: Swiss reign resumes at world women s curling championship
Team Tirinzoni fourth Alina Paetz pulled off a cross-house double takeout to score two points in the sixth end and go up 3-2 versus Team Homan in the Princess Auto Players Championship semifinals. | May 9, 2021, 9:04 PM
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Eight Ends is your source for news, notes, insight and analysis from around the curling world. This edition features takeaways from the world women s curling championship and the final event in the Calgary curling bubble.
First End: Switzerland’s Team Silvana Tirinzoni are still the world women’s curling champions after successfully defending the gold with a 4-2 victory over RCF’s Team Alina Kovaleva in Sunday’s final to wrap up the bubble at Calgary’s WinSport Arena.
Minnesotans help U.S. women s curling team earn Olympics berth Tabitha Peterson of Minneapolis, Tara Peterson of Eagan and Aileen Geving of Duluth also helped the Americans win bronze, the U.S. s first medal at the world championships since 2006. May 9, 2021 8:13pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Tabitha Peterson and her teammates got one job done Friday, when they made the playoffs at the world women s curling championships and qualified the U.S. for the 2022 Olympics. They brought home a little something extra when the championships ended Sunday, beating Sweden 9-5 to earn the bronze medal.
Peterson, of Minneapolis, skipped her team to a big seventh end to overcome an early deficit at WinSport Arena in Calgary, Alberta. Sweden, the 2018 Olympic gold medalists, led 4-2 when a missed shot put the U.S. in position to score five. Peterson s run-back take-out vaulted the U.S. to a 7-4 lead, and Swede n conceded after the n
RCF Continue Curling Impact, Face Swiss in World Final
Sweden has been bounced to a bronze medal match with USA.
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Sweden has been bounced to a bronze medal match with USA.
It’s RCF versus defending champions Switzerland for the 2021 world women’s curling championship title.
Both teams finished atop the standings in the round robin, the Swiss at 12-1 and RCF at 11-2.
In their round robin tilt, the Swiss won 8-6.
In Saturday semifinal play, Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni handled the U.S. team skipped by Tabitha Peterson by a 7-3 scoreline while RCF’s Alina Kovaleva upset Swden’s Anna Hasselborg by an 8-7 count.
Canada s path to gold at the LGT World Women’s Curling Championship
It’s been a marathon, but the seventh and final event of the Calgary curling bubble has arrived. Now, after so many terrific moments and storylines, it all wraps up with the LGT World Women’s Curling Championship. Take a closer look at Canada s path to gold at the Women s Worlds with TSN.ca s preview.
Ryan Horne, TSN Team Kerri Einarson , Curling Canada
It’s been a marathon, but the seventh and final event of the Calgary curling bubble has arrived.
Dozens of the world’s best curling rinks have been in and out of the bubble at Markin MacPhail Centre since the start of the festivities over two months ago.