World Curling finds no violations
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In an email to teams on Saturday, World Curling clarified what is then permitted, saying that a double touch of the stone handle is permitted before the hog line but that “touching the granite at any time during the forward motion is not allowed”. Any infringement should result in that stone being removed.
Americans Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin faced Sweden in the gold medal match for mixed doubles curling. Here's what happened. (AP)
Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse guaranteed the United States its first Olympic medal in mixed doubles curling, reaching the final Monday with a 9-8 victory over Italy at the Milano Cortina Games.
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(LEAD) (Olympics) S Korea splits 2 matches to begin women's curling tournament
South Korea split its first two matches of the women's curling tournament at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Thursday. Led by skip Gim Eun-ji, South Korea frittered away a 2-0 lead and fell 8-4 to Tabitha Peterson's American team in its first match at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium
Team GB are huge outsiders to win the whole tournament - priced at 80/1 for the gold. Canada are the 10/11 favourites, followed by Switzerland (2/1) and Sweden (5/1). Anything can happen at an Olympics though. What other women’s curling matches are being played today at the Winter Olympics?