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England win at Curling!!! - ritchiebaby - 11-01-2015

This week saw the European Junior Curling Challenge being played, where the 2 winning teams qualify for the World Championships to be held in Tallin, Estonia from 28 February to 8 March.

In the Womens event, the England team of Hetty Garnier (skip), Angharad Ward (third), Naomi Robinson (second) and Lucy Sparks (lead) supported by Niamh Fenton (alternate) won by demolishing Turkey 9-1 in the final after only 6 ends. They had won their section comfortably, winning 8 games and losing 1.

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The triumphant England team arriving home.

The English Mens team fared less well, winning only 2 of their 5 Section games, thereby failing to qualify for the later stages. Russia won the event.


RE: England win at Curling!!! - Amelia Chaffinch - 11-01-2015

Brilliant. Bet that doesn't happen very often.


RE: England win at Curling!!! - ritchiebaby - 11-01-2015

First time at the Juniors, Amelia. They'll be a welcome addition to the top echelon.


RE: England win at Curling!!! - Amelia Chaffinch - 11-01-2015

If we could get on in the game, we might stand a chance of getting some curling coverage on TV. They must know there is interest in it even if it only dawned on them at the last Olympics.


RE: England win at Curling!!! - Lord Snooty - 11-01-2015

Tried watching the Curling Championships on Eurosport before Christmas. The coverage was a bit all over the place and it just disappeared before I got to see who won. Never saw a final. The BBC should get a proper sports channel and show more curling if it's true what they said at the Winter Olympics and they do actually #lovecurling.
Even a wee highlights showing like they have with Ski Sunday would be something. At the moment it's nothing for 4 years and then they go potty about it.
Anyway, nice to see the Winter Sports section taking off. Nice one, Ritchie. Thumb up