29-03-2024, 22:35
With this season’s BKT Tires World Women’s Championship now successfully concluded in Sydney, Canada, the World Curling action now moves to Europe. The final Women's results were GOLD - Canada, SILVER - Switzerland, BRONZE - Korea. Scotland finished a disappointing 8th with a team of Rebecca Morrison, Jennifer Dodds, Sophie Sinclair and Sophie Jackson, plus Gina Aitken as Alternate.
The LGT World Men’s Curling Championship 2024 is set to be staged at the IWC Arena in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, from Saturday 30 March to Sunday 7 April. With Switzerland gaining participation as hosts, the other teams qualified are Scotland, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Czechia, Canada, Korea, Japan, United States and New Zealand.
Dangerous prediction time (dangerous because any one of about seven teams could win it) -
My final four would be ;-
Canada: Skip Brad Gushue – a world champion and three-time world silver medallist – leads his team to a third successive appearance.
Scotland: the defending champions and Olympic silver medallists, who are also the current European champions, skipped by Bruce Mouat on his fifth appearance. You'll have seen photos of the Scottish team of Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan many times before, so I'll not post another one.
Sweden: the Olympic champions, skipped by Niklas Edin, who has won this title six times and is making a 13th appearance.
Switzerland: last year’s bronze medallists, skipped by Yannick Schwaller, who is making a third appearance.
These teams could well be replaced by any from Italy, Norway and United States, possibly even newcomers Germany.
There will be 20 sessions of round-robin play, commencing on Saturday 30 March and concluding on Friday 5 April. This will determine the top six-ranked teams. The teams ranked top and second will proceed directly to the semi-finals. For teams ranked third to sixth, qualification games will take place at 10:00 on Saturday 6 April (3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th). Semi-finals will follow on the same day at 16:00. The bronze medal game and then the gold medal final will be staged on Sunday 7 April, at 10:00 and 15:00, respectively.
Scotland's opening games are against Korea at 13.00 tomorrow, United States at 18.00 tomorrow, at 12.00 against Canada on Sunday and at 17.00 against Italy on Sunday.
The LGT World Men’s Curling Championship 2024 is set to be staged at the IWC Arena in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, from Saturday 30 March to Sunday 7 April. With Switzerland gaining participation as hosts, the other teams qualified are Scotland, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Czechia, Canada, Korea, Japan, United States and New Zealand.
Dangerous prediction time (dangerous because any one of about seven teams could win it) -
My final four would be ;-
Canada: Skip Brad Gushue – a world champion and three-time world silver medallist – leads his team to a third successive appearance.
Scotland: the defending champions and Olympic silver medallists, who are also the current European champions, skipped by Bruce Mouat on his fifth appearance. You'll have seen photos of the Scottish team of Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan many times before, so I'll not post another one.
Sweden: the Olympic champions, skipped by Niklas Edin, who has won this title six times and is making a 13th appearance.
Switzerland: last year’s bronze medallists, skipped by Yannick Schwaller, who is making a third appearance.
These teams could well be replaced by any from Italy, Norway and United States, possibly even newcomers Germany.
There will be 20 sessions of round-robin play, commencing on Saturday 30 March and concluding on Friday 5 April. This will determine the top six-ranked teams. The teams ranked top and second will proceed directly to the semi-finals. For teams ranked third to sixth, qualification games will take place at 10:00 on Saturday 6 April (3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th). Semi-finals will follow on the same day at 16:00. The bronze medal game and then the gold medal final will be staged on Sunday 7 April, at 10:00 and 15:00, respectively.
Scotland's opening games are against Korea at 13.00 tomorrow, United States at 18.00 tomorrow, at 12.00 against Canada on Sunday and at 17.00 against Italy on Sunday.
Cabbage is still good for you