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Sweden won the bronze medal in men’s Olympic curling on Friday beating China 6-4 in a game that was not decided until the final shot of an extra end.<\/p>\n
China skip Liu Rui had the last shot but his rock glanced off a Swedish stone that was stationed on the button.<\/p>\n
“Super thrilled,” said Sweden skip Niklas Edin, whose world champion team finished the round-robin in first place at 8-1 before losing to Britain in the semifinals. “A fourth place again would have been expensive for all of us, as human beings, curlers and as a team as well.<\/span><\/p>\n “For Swedish curling, medals on both sides, it’s a huge step forward.”<\/p>\n Of course they go a little help from the Chinese who committed two violations in the ninth and extra ends. Both Liu and teammate Xu\u00a0\u00a0Xu Xiaoming failed to release stones before the delivery line, causing a red light to go off and their rocks to be pulled.<\/p>\n Canada plays Britain in the gold-medal game.<\/span><\/p>\n Sweden won the bronze medal in men’s Olympic curling on Friday beating China 6-4 in a game that was not decided until the final shot of an extra end. China skip Liu Rui had the last shot but his rock glanced off a Swedish stone that was stationed on the button. “Super thrilled,” said Sweden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-1051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-olympic-results"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bronze Medal Game<\/div>\n\n
\n Teams<\/th>\n LSFE<\/th>\n 1<\/th>\n 2<\/th>\n 3<\/th>\n 4<\/th>\n 5<\/th>\n 6<\/th>\n 7<\/th>\n 8<\/th>\n 9<\/th>\n 10<\/th>\n \n 11<\/p>\nEE<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/th>\n Total<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n\n China<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 2<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Sweden<\/td>\n \u2022<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 2<\/td>\n <\/td>\n 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"