Postcard from Switzerland 4

Dear All

Jim Law here again with an update on what's happening at the World Junior Curling Championships here at Flims. I'm sure you have been following Mike Haggerty's reports (here), but here's a summary of the rankings after Wednesday's games in the junior men's competition. In draw 7, Switzerland beat Canada, and that's what the photo above is about as fans persuade members of the Swiss team to sign autographs!

Standings after Round Robin Junior Men’s Draw 7:

NORWAY 6-1
SCOTLAND 6-1
CANADA 5-2
CHINA 5-2
SWITZERLAND 5-2
SWEDEN 4-3
DENMARK 2-5
FINLAND 1-6
RUSSIA 1-6
USA 0-7

Ally Fraser, Steven Mitchell, Scott Andrews and Kerr Drummond have still to play Canada and Denmark today.

Canada's Rachel Homan (above) is undefeated with only one game to go in the junior women's round robin. Standings after Draw 8:

CANADA 8-0
SWEDEN 6-2
RUSSIA 5-3
SWITZERLAND 5-3
USA 5-3
CHINA 3-5
CZECH REPUBLIC 2-6
FRANCE 2-6
GERMANY 2-6
SCOTLAND 2-6

Lauren Gray, Claire MacDonald, Tasha Aitken, Caitlin Barr and Anna Sloan are up against Anna Hasselborg's Swedish team in their last game today. That's Anna above.

There are more photos by me, and by Leslie Ingram-Brown, and reports of all the play on the WCF website here.

All for now.

Jim

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