The 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games Mixed curling event began today (Friday 12 February) in the Kristins Hall in Lillehammer, Norway, with two sessions of play and an opening ceremony that saw the Crown Prince of Norway deliver the opening stone.
The Crown Prince’s stone was swept by 2002 curling Gold medallist Pål Trulsen and current Norwegian Men’s skip, Thomas Ulsrud, who won Silver at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010. Norwegian Minister of Culture, Linda Hofstad Hellelands was in the house fulfilling the role of skip.
There were wins for Italy, Russia, USA and Switzerland in Group A. Czech Republic, Sweden, Canada and Great Britain won the Group B games.
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In Group A, Italy won three points before the fourth end break, against Japan, to give them a 4-1 lead, which they extended in the sixth and seventh end with steals of one and two respectively. The game ended 7-1.
Russia’s game was the only one that went to the full eight ends, in the first session, but it was the three points that they won in the first end, which kept the score in their favour for the most part. They beat New Zealand 7-5.
USA saw-off Turkey 7-3. It was a draw, 2-2, at the fourth end break, but a steal of three in the sixth end established their lead before Turkey took a one in the seventh and conceded the draw.
Switzerland beat China 7-2, with steals of one in the second and fifth ends.
In Group B, Czech Republic began their game with a steal of six, against Brazil, before going onto win 19-0, in just six ends.
Hosts Norway and Nordic neighbours Sweden had the closest match of the day, which went to an extra end and saw Sweden steal one point to begin their Youth Olympic Games campaign with a win, 8-7.
It was an impressive turnaround, with hosts Norway leading 7-4 going into the final regulation, eighth end, but a perfectly weighted stone, from skip Johan Nygren saw Sweden take three to level the scores, 7-7, before going on to win.
After stealing five points in the first end, Canada put-in a confident performance against Estonia. At the fourth end break it was 7-2 to the Canadians. After the break they scored another four points, before stealing two points in the sixth end, at which point Estonia conceded the draw, 13-2.
Great Britain, were up 4-1 at the fourth end break, in their game against Korea, and like Canada, after the break, they stole two points in the fifth end and then three points in the sixth end. Korea managed to score one more point in the seventh end before conceding the game at 9-2.
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