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Women's Curling Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022


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6 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Pretty big upsets in both semis. :SWE and :SUI are going to be pretty annoyed to be meeting each other in the bronze medal game.

In a sense I agree with you but I wonder if GB really were the underdogs against Sweden. Last November the same Scotland/GB team beat the same Swedish team 8-5 in the round-Robins and 7-4 in the final of the European Championships. They then followed that up with an 8-2 win in the round-Robin in Beijing so the form line actually favoured GB.

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52 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

In a sense I agree with you but I wonder if GB really were the underdogs against Sweden. Last November the same Scotland/GB team beat the same Swedish team 8-5 in the round-Robins and 7-4 in the final of the European Championships. They then followed that up with an 8-2 win in the round-Robin in Beijing so the form line actually favoured GB.

That was what I thought as well.  Sweden has been on top of :SCO/:GBR for so long that they have been really rattled by three (now four!) consecutive tournament defeats this season. 

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Checked through the records and the GB/Sweden aggregate score of 23 appears to be a record since the sport returned to the OG in 1998. The best previously appears to have been a couple of 21 point matches.

 

However, at the sports only previous appearance in 1924 - only France, GB and Sweden competed - the matches were played over 18 ends rather than the current 10 and produced aggregate scores of 28, 45 and 50.

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