Canada and Scotland sharing the driver’s seat after three games? Figures. But what about the defending Olympic silver-medal winners, the defending world silver-medal winners, the nation that has been out of the Ford Worlds playoffs only once in the last decade?
“We are in trouble, we’re leaking oil, we’re desperate now,” said Norwegian skip Thomas Ulsrud after dropping a pair of matches — to the Czech Republic (7-5) and Germany (9-8) — on Sunday in the Ford World curling championship at the Brandt Centre.
“The funny thing is, one or two ends in each game really seem to make trouble for us,” said Ulsrud, who lost in an extra-end morning tussle but was down 8-3 after six ends in the evening before staging a futile comeback that fell short to Andy Kapp’s last-rock takeout shot.
“We’re not playing like we normally do. For some funny reason we need to start this engine up.”
Ulsrud (1-2) has to figure out a way to get back in the chase on Monday against Sweden’s Niklas Edin and France’s Thomas Dufour, both with 2-and-1 records.