(by Larry Wood). It wasn’t exactly Swiss clockwork, or even the workings of a fine timepiece, but Mirjam Ott and her Davos team from Switzerland have earned a reprise in the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship final against Sweden.
Team Switzerland celebrates after the semi-final.
(Photo: CCA/Michael Burns Photography)
Ott, who has been banging heads with the best at curling’s international level since 1997 when she was 2-7 in her first Worlds appearance, outpointed upstart Korea 9-6 on Saturday night in the championship semi-final match at the Enmax Centre in Lethbridge.
The win moves the Swiss back for a shot at revenge against Sweden, a team that knocked off the squad from the land of the White Cross in the Page One-Two playoff.
It will be the first World final for Ott and her veteran team of Carmen Schaefer, Carmen Kueng and Janine Greiner from Alpineland.
Korea, meanwhile, tumbled into this morning’s bronze-medal skirmish against Canada, a team the Koreans defeated earlier Saturday.