 Great Britain's Team Sophie Jackson (Photo: Anil Mungal) score their first win while Canada suffers second straight loss. By: Cameron Sallaj Draw 4 of the women's competition in Cortina saw a couple surprise results with almost all games being upset victories. In one, Japan's Sayaka Yoshimura scored her first win by knocking off world number two ranked Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni while in another, China's Wang Rui barely escaped with a stolen 8-7 win over Italy's Stefania Constantini. In the third and final game of the draw, Great Britain's Sophie Jackson, who lost their first two games looked to get into the win column as they battled Canada's Rachel Homan. Starting with hammer, Canada was forced to take a single point facing two British counters. After a blank in two, Team GB took their first lead of the game when Homan couldn't come up with a double on her final stone, hitting to score three. Team Jackson continued to apply pressure in the fourth end with third Jenn Dodds making a triple takeout and fourth Rebecca Morrison drawing the button twice, resulting in a steal of one. In five, attempting a runback for two, Homan's rock overcurled and did not catch anything in the rings, scoring just one and trailing 4-2 at the break. For the rest of the game, Great Britain executed perfect defense, not allowing Canada to score any multi-point ends with the hammer. After taking two points in the eighth, the Brits forced Team Homan to one in the ninth, controlling the match with a 7-4 lead coming home. In ten, all Rebecca Morrison needed was an open takeout to secure the win. This victory over Canada has Great Britain, with Rebecca Morrison, Jenn Dodds, Sophie Sinclair and Sophie Jackson, back on track after two consecutive losses to begin the competition. After an opening draw bye, the team fell 7-4 to China and then lost 9-3 to South Korea. In their next game, the team will again face a tough test as they go against so far undefeated Anna Hasselborg of Sweden. Meanwhile, it's a second straight loss for the Canadian side of Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes who have so far not been playing up to their expectations as the world number one ranked team. In their first game, the team scored a dominant 10-4 win over Denmark before dropping a close 9-8 match against the United States. Now 1-2, they'll need to rally as they take on one of their toughest opponents next, Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni. Olympic Women's Standings - Draw 4 Sweden (Hasselborg): 3-0 Switzerland (Tirinzoni): 2-1 The United States (Peterson): 2-1 South Korea (Gim): 2-1 China (Wang): 2-1 Great Britain (Jackson): 1-2 Canada (Homan): 1-2 Denmark (Dupont): 1-2 Japan (Yoshimura): 1-2 Italy (Constantini): 0-3 |
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Manitoba's Kate Cameron (Photo: Curling Canada) announced on Monday that the team will look different for the new Olympic quadrennial.
