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| SOCHI, Russia -- Canadian skip Jennifer Jones won Olympic gold Thursday, defeating Sweden 6-3 to complete her curling trophy case with an unbeaten run on the sports biggest stage. Cheap Air Max 270 . A steal of two in the ninth sealed the win over Swedish skip Margaretha Sigfridsson, who throws lead stones but calls the shots as skip. Jones has now added Olympic gold to the world championship she won in 2008 as well as four Canadian crowns. In the process, she has matched Canadian skip Kevin Martins feat of winning the Olympic crown with a perfect record. Its Canadas second womens curling gold. The late Sandra Schmirler won the first in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. Britains Eve Muirhead, the 2013 world champion, defeated Switzerlands Mirjam Ott 6-5 for the bronze medal earlier in the day. Team Canada coach Mike Babcock was in the stands to witness the Canadian win, as were several members of the Swedish hockey team. No Canada womens team has even won a world championship since Jones rink, without third Kaitlyn Lawes, claimed the crown in 2008. Jones beat Sigfridssons route in the round-robin en route to that title. Jones, Lawes, second Jill Officer and lead Dawn McEwen dispatched Muirhead in the semifinal after going 9-0 in the round-robin. Canada downed Sweden 9-3 on the second day of the Olympic curling competition, with the Swedes shaking hands with two ends left. It was a tough start for Officer and Lawes, who thumped her broom in disgust at one point. Jones, who opened with hammer, had to take one in the first end after some aggressive curling by the Swedes had the Canadian skip holding last rock with three Swedish stones in the house. Jones hit and stuck for the single. The Swedes tied it up, escaping with a single from a crowded house in the second. Lawes doubled off two Swedish rocks as the third was blanked. Canada capitalized in the fourth when Swedens Maria Prytz -- throwing fourth -- jammed on a double attempt with last rock and Jones drew for a deuce and a 3-1 lead. With Lawes and Officer struggling and Sweden holding hammer, Jones faced a house with three Swedish rocks counting as she threw her last stone. She hit and stuck, but leaving Sweden shot rock. Prytz tried to remove Canadian rocks for a big score but had to settle for two and a 3-3 tie. The sixth and seventh were blanked as the Swedes put rocks in the house and Canada cleaned them out. In the eighth, there was more action in the house. After freezes by Canada and Sweden, each team had a rock around the same distance from the button. Jones tried to draw for a possible two, happy to nudge the Swedish rock out of the way, but was short and Canada had to settle for one after a measurement. The Swedes went down 4-3 but high-fived because they had hammer. Jones nailed a pressure draw with her last rock of the ninth. That piled the pressure on Prytz, given the plethora of Canadian rocks in the house. The Swede wrecked her shot and Canada stole two. Prytz looked to the skies, as if wondering what she had to deserve such a fate. The Swedes have a rich history in curling at the Olympics, winning gold in 2006 and 2010 (via Anette Norberg) and bronze in 1998 (Elisabet Gustafson). Sigfridsson has lost four world championship finals: as third in 2002, lead in 2009 and as skip with her current team in 2012 and 2013. Wholesale Nike Air Max From China . -- Thirty years ago, the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 186-184 in triple overtime, a game that remains the highest scoring in NBA history. Fake Nike Air Max Replica . Stevenson scored the first three goals of the game in the first period for Regina (35-22-6), which has won eight of its last 10 games. Patrick DAmico added two for the Pats, Braden Christoffer had a single and Morgan Klimchuk chipped in a goal and four assists. https://www.wholesalenikeairmaxshoes.com/ . But that changed when he committed a five-minute major penalty and helped pave the way for a comeback by the Philadelphia Flyers. Vincent Lecavalier scored at 2:45 of overtime and the Flyers rallied from a two-goal deficit for a 5-4 victory on Sunday.Team Canada wrapped up its tournament at their world junior development camp on a losing note Friday, dropping a 5-2 decision to the Czech Republic in a game that saw nearly 80 minutes in penalties handed out in the final period. Boston Bruins first-round pick David Pastrnak led the Czezhs with two goals and an assist, but his performance took a backseat to some nasty play from both teams as the minutes ticked down. With Canada down 4-2 early in the third, forward Nick Ritchie received a two-minute minor and a ten-minute misconduct for making head contact on a hit. Ritchie also went after Czech defenceman Lukas Klok with a punch as the final whistle blew. Klok was the player who hit Canadian blueliner Aaron Ekblad on Tuesday, leaving the Florida Panthers prospect with a concussion and an early exit from camp. Later in the thirdd period, Canada was on the receiving end after Robby Fabbri was leveled at centre ice by Marek Baranek of the Czechs. Cheap Nike Air Max Outlet. While Fabbri had to be helped off with no weight on his left leg, the inital word after the game was that the Guelph forward suffered a charley horse and would be all right. The game got worse as the period came to a close, with scrums after almost every whistle and as many as 10 players in the penalty box at the same time for both teams. Connor McDavid and Bo Horvat scored for Canada, who finishes the tournament with a 3-1 record. McDavid, considered by many to be the top prospect in next years NHL draft, finished camp with a goal and an assist in two games. Canadas final evaluation camp will take place in December, with the 2015 World Junior Hockey Championship beginning on Boxing Day. ' ' ' |
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