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The old problem with giving away avoidable shots reared it's ugly head again this morning, when Scotland lost 6-7 to Italy in an extra end. The Scots were 6-3 up going into the last end, but lost 3 shots after Bruce Mouat tried to raise his own stone to take out an Italian one, instead of drawing up to that stone. He only succeeded in taking his own one out, leaving Italy an easy promotion to take the 3 shots to tie the game. In the extra end, Scotland got into a real guddle at the front, leaving Bruce with a difficult double take-out with last stone. He did get the right angle but didn't move the Italian stone out. To be fair to him he did draw a perfect shot in the 1st end with Italy lying 5 shots.

In the Gold Medal Game, Sweden saw off Canada by 6-5, when Niklas Edin played an excellent final stone to draw the shot against 3 shots for Canada. It was a superb game throughout between the top 2 teams in the Round Robin and the Gold was won for an amazing 7th time by Niklas Edin and Oskar Eriksson. The other team members, Christoffer Sundgren has only won it 6 times and Rasmus Wranaa a mere 5 times. 

GOLD - Sweden
SILVER - Canada
BRONZE - Italy