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This article was published 12/02/2002 (8734 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OGDEN, UTAH — It was billed coming in as a possible preview of the women’s curling gold medal game. Canadians can only hope so.
Because in a battle of gold-medal favourites here yesterday on the opening draw of the women’s curling event, Canada’s Kelley Law and Co. gave four-time world champ Elisabet Gustafson of Sweden a message.
After blanking a conservative first four ends, the two teams mixed it up in the fifth end yesterday and Sweden went on to regret it, giving up a four-spot as Canada went on to a 5-4 win that was much more lopsided than the score would indicate.
Law said afterward she can only hope it is an omen of things to come.
“We knew we had a big game. They’re favoured just like we are as one of the top teams. So we wanted to come out strong. And so we’re very pleased with our performance,” said Law, who comes into this morning tied with Switzerland, Germany and Great Britain at 1-0.
“We just went out and we played strong. And we felt it didn’t really matter what they did. We just concentrated on what we were doing.”
And so with that, Law says she hopes she has finally put the issue of her injured foot — she tore a tendon in a freak dancing accident early last month — behind her once and for all.
Foot feels ‘fine’
“My foot feels fine. I wasn’t kidding when I said it before this game,” Law grinned. “So hopefully people will believe me now.”
Gustafson, meantime, was taking yesterday’s loss in stride, chalking up the fifth-end four-spot to some bad luck.
“We had some really bad breaks that went really well for Canada. Some bad rocks. And I think that was it,” said Gustafson.
Law will face Norway (0-1) this morning and Russia (0-1) tonight. Norway is skipped by two-time world champ Dordi Nordby, who Law said she expects “will come out firing at us with nothing to lose.”
Law seemed surprised by how easily the fifth end seemed to unfold yesterday.
“All I wanted was just an easy deuce,” she recalled. “That’s what I was saying, ‘Let’s just get two.’ And sometimes just going for an easy deuce, three or four is what happens.”
Law admitted having a bit of the jitters prior to her first-ever game at the Olympics.
“We were a little bit nervous going out, but that’s OK. I think that having nerves is a good thing,” she said.