DAN BARNES –Canwest News Service

EDMONTON — So technically proficient, so consistently sharp and unbeaten for long stretches, only Kevin Martin could beat Kevin Martin.

At least, that was the suggestion before the Ford men’s world curling championship began and it gained reinforcement as he romped to a 10-0 record in the round-robin, rarely having to bother playing all 10 ends.

That line of thinking had always been an obvious denigration of the better competition in Moncton, N.B., where so many Olympics-bound teams were tuning up against one another, and that was hardly fair to them. But nobody actually imagined the old bear and his boys would go out and do exactly that anyway. Certainly not in the final.

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