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6-0 ISSUE 5 | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019 AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF CURLING CANADA Canada’s Koe remains unbeaten at world championship but now the heavy lifting begins – PAGES 4-5
EYEOPENER • APRIL 3 • 2019 | PAGE 2
World Men’s Curling Championship
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are all 6-1. Swedish skip Niklas Edin long as we keep winning from now on
By GRANT GRANGER and his defending champions created because we’re clearly ahead of them, so
teams C
EyeOpener Writer the three-way tie by knocking off to speak,” said Edin, whose team faces
Switzerland’s Peter de Cruz 9-4 in eight Canada tonight. “For sure bouncing
anada remains the only unbeaten
ends while Yuta Matsumura of Japan, back now was both really important for
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While Kevin Koe’s Calgary crew (6-
over the Swiss which could come to get the win in this one and if we can
0) had the night off before heading into
in handy if getting a bye into the keep winning this morning won’t really
Canada
the tough part of the schedule, after the
semifinals is at stake at the end of the matter.”
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round robin.
there were three teams on their tail.
Sweden, Switzerland and Japan
“The loss to Scotland (Tuesday Continued
morning) doesn’t really matter as Opposite page
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Defending champion Niklas Edin split his two games Tuesday.
Despite the defeat, de Cruz believes in the European championship final.
his team is in good shape. “We knew it was going to be a tough
“Still the driver’s seat, I guess. This one and I think Bruce didn’t miss a shot
game would have been nice for playoff all game,” said Edin. “If they would
rankings, but we’ll just have to win have played like this they would’ve
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Scotland knocked Sweden from
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World Men’s Curling Championship
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Gulp! Tough road ahead
Canadians eager to face challenge of playing the world’s best
By JOHN KOROBANIK being where we need to be and I think we’ll continue playing in his first world championship.
to get better, which is the key to these events. “These teams are good enough that if you
N
EyeOpener Writer “I’ve always thought, personally, we’ve gotten don’t come out and perform you’re going to be in
better as these long events have gone on and steadily trouble.” And that doesn’t matter if the opponent is
ow the fun really begins. Or, as some fans try to peak at the end of the event.” Edin or a team that’s winless.
might say, the competition really gets Canada plays Yuta Matsumura of Japan Neufeld agrees with Koe that the team is playing
underway at the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Wednesday morning and then meets Edin in the well, but still has room to improve.
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After four days of robin-robin play Kevin Koe That’s followed by the final day of round-robin going there, so just to get all four guys going is what
and Team Canada are exactly where they want to play, against currently unbeaten Peter de Cruz of we need coming up here. We’re not too far off.”
be — unbeaten at 6-0, shooting a cumulative team Switzerland and Jaap van Dorp of the Netherlands. While Koe and Hebert are veterans to the world
percentage of about 90 per cent, and primed to get Canada’s next four games are against playoff-bound Some would look at Canada’s draw and figure stage, Neufeld and Flasch, who joined the Koe
into the meat of the competition. foursomes, plus a pre-tournament favourite to make it favoured them with “easier’ games to this point team this year, are newcomers but haven’t been
After cruising past the lightweights like Germany, the playoffs, Scotland. to get them prepared for the tough sledding ahead. the least bit intimidated by the bright lights and
whom they beat 7-4 in their only game Tuesday, And guess, what? For Koe, himself, these next Others would argue it’s unfair to have to play the the heightened expectations. Neufeld in particular
Russia, Norway and China, Koe, third B.J. Neufeld, five days are what he plays for. best half of the field in the final few days. has thrived under the lights, shooting 91 per cent
second Colton Flasch and lead Ben Hebert now “I’m looking forward to the challenge, I love “You can dissect a draw a lot of different ways, through six games.
face the task of dealing with the likes of Olympic playing the favourites on a big stage,” the three- tell yourself it’s a good draw or a bad draw, but at “He’s played awesome, got us out of trouble a
champion John Shuster of the U.S. and defending time world champion says. “They’ll be tough, but the end of the day you have to play everybody, you couple of ends. He’s been like that all year,” Koe
world champion Niklas Edin of Sweden. Four of as I said, we’re paying well. We’re feeling good and have to be ready to play everybody,” says Neufeld, says of Neufeld.
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A SNEAKY GOOD SEASON
Japanese just keep plugging along
“Everybody has international level of experience, although
By GRANT GRANGER not at worlds,” said Abe, who noted they defeated Olympic gold
medallist John Shuster before losing to Carruthers/McEwen.
T
EyeOpener Writer
“It’s been a great season for us so far.”
he Japanese team is having a sneaky good performance They’ve been helped this year by coach Bob Ursel of
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Winning their first four games (UPDATE) should not be a team.
surprise because skip Yuta Matsumura and his men have had “One of the very first things that I noticed was that they get
a sneaky good season. The team is ranked 21st in the world, along extremely well, they’re confident and they’re calm. They
thanks in part to winning cashspiels in Oakville, Ont., and don’t seem to get rattled, they just keep plugging along which is
Abbotsford, B.C., the Pacific-Asia championship and the Japan just a great attribute for the team.”
championship. He’s been particularly impressed with Matsumura. “He’s cool
They also made the final of the Karuizawa International and he’s a shotmaker.”
losing to the Winnipeg-based team headed by Reid Carruthers Abe agrees with Ursel’s contention that strategy is something
and Mike McEwen. They suffered semifinal losses in Kamloops, they have to work on to beat the big boys and reach the podium.
B.C., and at home on the northern island of Hokkaido, and “There’s the odd mistake here and there, but we’re learning
reached the quarter-finals in Medicine Hat. They failed to qualify and we’re getting better and better,” said Ursel. “We could read
in just two spiels, both in the United States. the ice a little better than we’re reading it right now. We’re still
While many others may be, lead and vice-skip Shinya Abe making a few mistakes. Weight control is always the biggest
isn’t too surprised by how well he, Matsumura, third Tetsuro factor, but we’re getting there. We’re just going to get stronger
Shimizu and Yasumasa Tanida have been doing, although the as the event goes on.”
only player with any experience at the world championship is If that’s the case they may just go from sneaky good to very
Matsumura who served as an alternate in 2015. good. Japanese skip Yuta Matsumura.
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Switzerland has won four of the last six
world women’s curling championships, the
latest coming with Silvana Tirizoni, with
Alina Pätz throwing fourth, taking the title.
The men’s team, which includes Pätz’s
partner Sven Michel playing third and her
brother Claudio as the alternate, has a long way
to go to match the Swiss misses.
“They keep putting pressure on us,”
admitted Switzerland skip Peter de Cruz. games he’s gone the full 10 ends was Tuesday
“We know it’s still a completely different morning, a 6-5 loss to Bruce Mouat of
situation, the women’s and men’s. It’s really Scotland, and his first loss of the event.
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Niklas Edin has played in Olympic Games, women’s champion skip Anna Hasselborg
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events to count, but never an event as difficult Norway.
as last year’s world men’s championship in Las nnn
Vegas, which he won by beating Canada’s Brad Curling is Italian skip Joël Retornaz’s No.
Gushue 7-3 in the final. 1 passion in a photo finish just ahead of horses.
That event, he says, “was by far the worst Retornaz used to breed and race quarter-
event in terms of how physically and mentally horses but had to give that up.
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Ramsfjell a chip off the ol’ block
Norwegian skip learns
game from legendary dad
By GRANT GRANGER
A
EyeOpener Writer
s a little tyke, Magnus Sørum, and as skip in 1984 and 1988.
Ramsfjell knew his father, There’s no doubt rocks and rings
Eigil, was a pretty darn good are in Ramsfjell’s DNA with Eigil not
curler in his day. But Norwegians never only passing along his talent but his
made a fuss about it. It wasn’t until knowledge as well.
about 10 years ago when Ramsfhell “He was there for pretty much all of
made his first trip to Canada with his my junior years, up until I was 16, 17
family when he realized the magnitude when we watched curling together and I
of what his dad had done. started arguing against him. That’s when
“People I’ve never seen, people who he figured, ‘Ehhh? He’s good to go.’ ”
my father has never seen, came up and said Magnus with a smile. “Still today he
wanted to talk to my dad and my sister continues to adjust small details in my
and I. That’s when I first figured it was slide. We have some discussions about
a big deal,” says the 21-year-old lanky tactics every now and then. He’s been
Norwegian skip. there all the way.”
Eigil holds the record for the most
appearances at the world championship
with 15, one more than German coach CONTINUED
Andy Kapp. He’s won three times, the Opposite page
Norwegian skip Magnus Ramsfjell has great bloodlines in the sport. first in 1979 playing second for Kristian
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He’s a bit sheepish when asked if he to come here.”
later realized his dad just might have been But Ramsfjell wasn’t finished. He
right in some of those debates. then headed to Russia with another group
“Unfortunately, yes! The older I’ve of guys and won the gold medal at the
gotten the more I’ve realized we have some Universaide Games.
different views, and he’s played a bit of an “It’s kind of different when you play
older game than I have. Right now with with a team you haven’t been working
“
all the swing we’ve got here (on the arena together with for years. We just put it
ice) I think he’s going to stay relatively together to have some fun, to have a good
quiet about most decisions I make,” said to learn, and we’re there to give them a week of curling and that’s what happened,”
Magnus. good game. We don’t expect to win every said Ramsfjell. “We had loads of fun and
His father wasn’t able to make it to game,” said Ramsfjell. “Out here, I think actually won the thing. That was very
Lethbridge, but he did travel to Liverpool, we have to have a bit of a different mindset, unexpected, but it showed all of us as
N.S., earlier this year when the same team to win games, of course. We can’t be here individual players can play at that top level.
Magnus is skipping here played in the just for the learning part.” “I definitely think we can do the same
world junior men’s championship finishing It’s been quite the couple of months for with this team.”
fourth. Ramsfjell beginning with defeating another His alternate is Steffen Walstad, 30,
“He figured that was enough time off Norwegian curling legend, Thomas Ulsrud, who skipped the last two Norwegian Magnus is a
the job, so he stayed home this week, to win the right to come here, and then they teams at the worlds and has played against
unfortunately,” said Magnus, who is went to Liverpool. Ramsfjell’s father. really good
currently working toward a masters degree “Magnus is a really good player, and
in electrical engineering. “But I get some
“We knew if we played our best we’d
have a good shot,” said Ramsfjell. “The he’s proved it, obviously, getting here player, and
messages here now and then. I got one
earlier after he watched the game and said,
first couple of ends in the final we had a
really good feeling and we made a lot of
and representing Norway to gold in the
Universaide and playing in the world he’s proved
‘Well, this is the kind of ice you like to
draw on.’ It’s exactly what I thought too.”
shots. We didn’t really miss anything, and
when you don’t really miss anything it’s
junior,” said Walstad. “He’s older than his
years in skipping.”
it, obviously,
Magnus plays with three 20-year-olds,
lead Andreas Hårstad, second Jørgen
going to be difficult for your opponent to Walstad doesn’t mind the competition
from the young guns.
getting
win.”
Myran and third Michael Mellemseter.
They’re boys amongst men.
Then it was off to Liverpool, which “It’s only healthy. It’s been some years.
Norway’s always had one team that’s been
here and
turned out to be a bit anti-climactic after
“Of course we feel like we’re the what they had accomplished. good for so long,” said Walstad referring to representing
younger team on the ice. We’ve played the torch being passed from Eigel Ramsfjell
many of these teams in the big tournaments
“The goal for the team was to get a
medal at the 2018 or 2019 (world juniors),” to Pal Trulsen to Ulsrud. “Now we have Norway.
on the European tour and such. But when said Ramsfjell … “(Winning the men’s) three (including Ulsrud), so it’s only good
we do that, we always feel like we’re there for Norwegian curling.”
— Steffen Walstad
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TEAM PROFILE Joël
Retornaz
POSITION: Skip
AGE: 35 (September 20, 1983, Geneva,
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Switzerland)
FAMILY: Engaged
OCCUPATION: Businessman
LIVES: Cembra, Italy
YEARS CURLED: 25
DELIVERS: Right-handed
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POSITION: Third
AGE: 24 (March 12, 1995, Trento, Italy)
FAMILY: Engaged
OCCUPATION: Athlete
LIVES: Cembra, Italy
YEARS CURLED: 19
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POSITION: Second
AGE: 22 (January 17, 1997, Trento,
Italy)
FAMILY: Single
OCCUPATION: Athlete
LIVES: Cembra, Italy
YEARS CURLED: 15
DELIVERS: Right-handed
Simone
Formal name: Italian Republic Language: Italian
Gonin
Local name: Italia Religion: Roman Catholic POSITION: Lead (vice-skip)
Local formal name: Repubblica AGE: 29 (August 23, 1989, Saviglano,
Italiana ITALY AT THE WORLDS Italy)
Location: Europe Last five years: FAMILY: Single
Status: UN member country 2018: Joël Retornaz 5-7 OCCUPATION: Manager/instructor
Capital City: Rome (Roma) 2017: Joël Retornaz 5-7 (curling facility)
Main cities: Milan, Naples, Turin, 2016: DNQ LIVES: Pinerolo, Italy
Florence, Venice 2015: Joël Retornaz 3-8 YEARS CURLED: 17
Population: 59,798,000 2014: DNQ DELIVERS: Right-handed
Area: 301,270 sq. km Last championship — N/A
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TEAM PROFILE Magnus
Ramsfjell
POSITION: Skip
AGE: 21 (July 17, 1997, Tønsberg,
NORWAY
Norway)
FAMILY: Single
OCCUPATION: Student, Masters
degree in electrical engineering
LIVES: Trondheim, Norway
YEARS CURLED: 16
OPPDAL CURLING CLUB DELIVERS: Right-handed
Michael
Mellemseter
POSITION: Third
AGE: 20 (November 12, 1998,
Trondheim, Norway)
FAMILY: Single
OCCUPATION: Student
LIVES: Trondheim
YEARS CURLED: 13
The Fjords of Norway are world famous and each year tourists DELIVERS: Right-handed
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are over 1000 fjords scattered across the country which is the
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Jørgen
HISTORY Myran
POSITION: Second (vice-skip)
AGE: 20 (April 24, 1998, Oppdal,
Norway)
FAMILY: Single
OCCUPATION: Student
LIVES: Trondheim, Norway
YEARS CURLED: 11
DELIVERS: Right-handed
Formal name: Kingdom of Norway Religion: Lutheran Andreas
Local name: Norge
Local formal name: Kongeriket NORWAY AT THE WORLDS
Hårstad
Norge Last five years: POSITION: Lead
Location: Europe 2018: Steffen Walstad 7-5 AGE: 20 (November 11, 1998, Oppdal,
Status: UN member country 2017: Steffen Walstad 5-6 Norway)
Capital City: Oslo 2016: Thomas Ulsrud (7-4) FAMILY: Single
Main cities: Bergen, Trondheim, 2015: Thomas Ulsrud (10-1 Silver) OCCUPATION: Shop assistant
Stravanger 2014: Thomas Ulsrud (10-1 Gold) LIVES: Oppdal
Population: 5,258,000 Last championship — Thomas YEARS CURLED: 10
Area: 323,900 sq. km Ulsrud (2014)
DELIVERS: Right-handed
Currency: 1 Norwegian krone = 100 World titles — 4
ore
Languages: Norwegian, small COACH:
amount of Lapp and Finnish
Stein MellemseterEYEOPENER • APRIL 3 • 2019 | PAGE 17
W rld Scoreboard
LINESCORES Draw 11
7 p.m.
Draw 9
9 a.m. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
Italy (Retornaz) *0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 — 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total Russia (Glukhov) 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 — 3
Japan (Matsumura) 01 0 1 0 2 0 120 1 — 8
South Korea (Kim) *2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 7 Sweden (Edin) *0 1 0 3 0 3 0 2 x x — 9
STANDINGS
Switzerland (de Cruz) 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 x x — 4
Scotland (Mouat) *1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 — 6
Sweden (Edin) 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 — 5 Japan (Matsumura) *2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 x — 6
Germany (Muskatewitz) 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 x — 4
W L Norway (Ramsfjell) 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 x x — 4
Italy (Retornaz) *2 0 1 0 2 0 0 5 x x — 10
Canada (Koe) 6 0 South Kora (Kim)
Scotland (Mouat)
0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 x x — 3
*1 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 x x — 7
Japan (Matsumura) 6 1
Draw 10
Switzerland (de Cruz) 6 1
Sweden (Edin) 6 1 2 p.m.
Italy (Retornaz)
U.S. (Shuster)
4
4
2
2 Switzerland (de Cruz)
USA (Shuster)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
*2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 x
0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 x
— 7
— 4
SCHEDULE
Scotland (Mouat) 3 3 TODAY
Netherlands (van Dorp) 2 4 Germany (Muskatewitz) *1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 x — 4 9 a.m. Draw
Russia (Glukhov) 2 5 Canada (Koe) 0 1 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 x — 7 A — CHN vs. NED; B — SCO vs. NOR; C — USA vs. ITA; D — CAN vs. JPN
China (Zou) 1 5 Norway (Ramsfjell) *0 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 2 x — 9
2 p.m. Draw
A — GER vs. NOR; B — CHN vs. USA; C — SUI vs. KOR; D — RUS vs. SWE
Norway (Ramsfjell) 1 5 Netherlands (van Dorp) 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 x — 4 7 p.m. Draw
Germany (Muskatewitz) 1 6 Russia (Gorkhov) 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 3 x x — 7 A — JPN vs. SCO; B — KOR vs ITA; C — SWE vs. CAN; D — NED vs. GER
South Korea (Kim) 0 7 China (Zou) *1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x x — 1You can also read
