SAPPORO, Japan – Olympic champion Jennifer Jones’ Canadian rink suffered its first loss, 8-6 to Sweden, at the world women’s curling championship Sunday in Sappoto, Japan.
It dropped Canada’s record to 2-1.
Jones jumped ahead 3-0 in the first end while the Swedes answered with two in the second.
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Canada led 5-4 after six but Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson scored three in the eighth and another in the ninth to lead 8-5 before Jones counted one more in the tenth.
In an earlier 9-4 win Sunday over Scotland, Jones led 5-2 by the fifth end and sealed the lopsided affair with two more in the seventh and another two in the eighth and final end.
Scotland, skipped by 2013 world champion Eve Muirhead, managed just one point in the third, another in the fourth and two in the sixth.
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