Canada takes the gold

Nobody wanted the gold medal as badly as Cathy Overton-Clapham of Team Canada. Overton-Clapham has made four world appearances and has failed to get a gold medal each time. But all that changed today as she and with Team Canada, skipped by Jennifer Jones, won their first gold medal at a world championship. This is only the third time a Canadian women's team has won the gold medal on home ice. The Jones team also represented Canada at the worlds in 2005, but failed to qualify for the championship match.

This year's final saw Canada take on Bingyu Wang and Team China, who were the talk of the tournament this year. After a seventh place finish in last year's worlds, Wang and her Chinese squad surprised everyone by finishing the round-robin atop the standings. Their accomplishments for the week included the shocking win over Canada in the round-robin, and womping of Team USA 10-1, and crushing Sweden 11-5. In the playoffs, China downed Canada once again to advance to the gold medal game. Canada earned their way to the gold medal game with a win over Japan's Moe Meguro in the semi-final.

This gave Jennifer Jones a third opportunity to take on the Chinese. Canada started the game with the clean shot making they've been struggling to find all week. They held China to a single point and took the hammer into the second. Then after Wang gave up the rare missed shot, Jennifer Jones capitalized to score three in the second end. This gave Canada a lead over the Chinese, something they failed to do throughout the entire 1 vs. 2 playoff game.

Canada hung on to that lead and carried it to the tenth end, where they ran China out of rocks. Canada ended the game with a score of 7-4. This gives Jennifer Jones her first world championship title. But China has a lot to be proud of. This is the first medal the country has ever won in world curling. Canada outcurled China 88% to 80%.

The gold medal rink consists of Jennifer Jones, Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, and Dawn Askin.