Canada’s Brad Gushue misplaced his first recreation on the world males’s curling championship on Monday, dropping a 7-6 resolution to Italy’s Joel Retornaz at IWC Area.
Retornaz made an open draw to the four-foot ring in an additional finish for the victory. That left his top-ranked Italian group in a four-way tie with Canada, Germany and the US at 3-1.
Gushue, from St. John’s, N.L., mentioned he was struggling along with his rocks within the first half of the sport.
“I switched them out and took Geoff (Walker’s) and as soon as I received his it was a a lot completely different really feel,” he mentioned. “Certainly one of my rocks was curling greater than the opposite. It was fooling me and never permitting me to belief the place I used to be placing the broom.”
Canada’s skip Brad Gushue delivers a stone towards the Czech Republic on the males’s Curling World Championships in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Saturday, March 30, 2024.
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Sweden’s Niklas Edin (5-0) and defending champion Bruce Mouat of Scotland (4-1) led the round-robin standings after seven attracts. American John Shuster and Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz have been tied with Canada and Italy at 3-1.
In different afternoon video games, Sweden beat Norway’s Magnus Ramsfjell 10-8 in an additional finish, Scotland dumped New Zealand’s Anton Hood 8-2 and Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller posted an 8-5 win over Wouter Goesgens of the Netherlands.
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Switzerland was simply outdoors the six-team playoff cutline at 2-2. Norway, the Netherlands, Lukas Klima of Czechia, Japan’s Shinya Abe have been subsequent at 1-3.
Gushue was idle for the Monday night session. His group of Walker, third Mark Nichols and second E.J. Harnden have been set to return Tuesday morning towards New Zealand (0-4).
Canada shot 90 per cent on the day towards the Italians, who completed at 87 per cent.
The Italians have been the primary on the board after Canada made an error within the second finish. Gushue was heavy on a freeze try and Retornaz transformed with a draw for a pair.
Canada was pressured within the third finish as Gushue tried to search out his draw weight.
“I’m dissatisfied,” he mentioned. “For me personally, I missed a few pictures early that precipitated that swing of the 2 and the one. Within the third, we had a mini-opportunity to get the deuce again and it got here up mild.”
Italy gave up a steal within the sixth finish after lacking a number of runbacks. That allowed Canada to cluster three stones within the four-foot ring.
Retornaz opted to hit a double-takeout and concede a single, which tied the sport.
Canada had an opportunity for 3 – and the win – within the tenth finish however Gushue’s nostril hit rolled too far-off and Retornaz adopted with a double-takeout. Gushue might solely draw for 2 and the tie.
“We simply overswept my first rock,” Gushue mentioned. “If we hit that on the nostril, we’re going to lie three, they’ll be buried, and he would have needed to play a runback double simply to chop us down to 2.
“It was slightly unlucky and only a little bit of a panic sweep and over-sweep and left Joel a simple double. We nonetheless received two, which is hard towards these guys, however there was a 3 there.”
Spherical-robin play continues by Friday night time. Medal video games are scheduled for Sunday.
Canada final gained gold at this occasion in 2017 when Gushue was victorious in Edmonton.
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