Curling World Cup finalists wrapped up
BySportsbeat
Published 09/12/2018 at 13:35 GMT
Sunday's women's final of the Curling World Cup in Omaha will be an all-Asian affair after Korea and Japan both secured top spot in their respective groups with a game to spare.
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Meanwhile the men's final will be a repeat of February's Olympic gold medal match as the American team, skippered by John Shuster, and Niklas Edin's Swedish quartet do battle once more
Norway's Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten clinched a place in Sunday's mixed doubles final against Switzerland in yet another pulsating finale.
In the women's event, Japan's Team Fujisawa led Group B by three points from Scotland's Team Muirhead going into the day's second session.
They then had to hope that Sweden would beat Scotland on Sheet A in the same session – and that is exactly what happened.
Team Muirhead were behind from the very start as the Olympic and European champions made three successive steals of one.
A further three for the Swedes in the sixth end put the result beyond doubt; 7-2 the final score.
In the men's event, Team Shuster delighted the home fans at the Ralston Arena on Saturday with another dominant display to triumph 7-3 and seal top spot in Group A.
The victory sets up a mouth-watering tie against Sweden that will see the two teams play out a rematch of the final in Pyeongchang which saw USA take home gold.
Saturday also saw a three-way battle between Norway, United States and China to join Switzerland in the mixed doubles final.
It looked like Team USA were going through until Norway pulled it out of the bag against China.
It was tied 5-5 going into the final end with stones clustered tightly around the button.
It all came down to Skaslien's final shot and she made it, throwing a triumphant fist in the air and clinching the point Norway needed to reach the showpiece.
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