Norway wins another sudden-death victory
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This article was published 08/04/2011 (5524 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
REGINA — Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud is making the most of the reprieve he got from Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton Thursday night.
Ulsrud, the 2010 Olympic silver medallist, defeated France’s Thomas Dufour 5-4 in a playoff tiebreaker game here Friday afternoon at the 2011 World Men’s Curling Championship.
The win was Norway’s sixth straight sudden-death victory — which included stealing a 7-6 win from Canada on the final round-robin draw Thursday — and advances them to Saturday afternoon’s page playoff 3 vs 4 game against Sweden’s Niklas Edin.
“If you had asked me two or three days ago if we’d be playing on Saturday, I’d have said no way,” Ulsrud said after the win over France. “But here we are. We hung in there.”
The Norwegians got a critical steal in the ninth end to take a 4-3 lead and then held France to one in the tenth end, setting the stage for Ulsrud to play a quiet tap with the final rock of the extra end to seal the win.
It was a disappointing loss, but a great week, for a French team from whom little was expected at the start of this event.
“We cannot say we are disappointed. We did not expect to play so good,” said Dufour. “It’s faster than we thought and maybe next year it goes the same or even better. For the future, it is ‘Wow!’ What can we expect after (this)?”
All eyes will be back on the ice at the Brandt Centre Friday night when a capacity crowd is expected for the page playoff 1 vs 2 game between Team Canada’s Stoughton and Scotland’s Tommy Brewster. The game will be broadcast live on TSN beginning at 8:30 p.m. Winnipeg time.
The winner tonight advances straight to Sunday’s world championship final, while the loser gets a second chance in Saturday evening’s semi-final.
