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Wheelchair Curling: Canada triumph in curling

by royce on Mar.24, 2010, under Sports

Vancouver (AFP) - The head of the Canadian team of wheelchair curling Jim Armstrong Saturday led his comrades to victory in the final of the Paralympic Games, with a narrow victory by 8 to 7 against South Korea.
Canadians have reached mid-term review which would be their final score, while Koreans were still an item. But tension is rising then, when the team led by Kim Haksung began to narrow the gap with each round.

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Then in the eighth and final race, a stone thrown by Armstrong rocket on ice to reject one of two stones Korean concentric rings out in the end, making unnecessary any extensions and offering gold to Canada, to an enthusiastic crowd of over 5,000 fans such as pixel tracer .
The Swedish team won the bronze medal by beating the Americans by 7 to 5.
Sweden played without replacement, after the suspension Friday of Glenn Ikonen, tested positive for a banned beta-blocker used to control high blood pressure. Ikonen said that the drug had been prescribed by his doctor in Sweden and he knew it was forbidden.
This is the second time that curling is part of Paralympic sports. Ten countries participated in the meeting: Canada, Germany, South Korea, United States, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

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