World Curling Tour Europe Oslo

Kelly Wood, Eve Muirhead, Lorna Vevers and Karen Addison, team GB, won the Radisson SAS Oslo Cup, a World Curling Tour Europe event, beating Sweden's Annette Norberg 5-4 in a close final. The teams were tied at four all after seven ends but Wood had the last stone advantage in the final end, scoring one shot for the title.

In the semi final the Wood team beat Claire Milne. Gail Munro's team made it to the quarters to lose out to Milne.

In the men's event the GB team skipped by Warwick Smith got to the semi finals but lost out to Norway's Thomas Ulsrud. Peter Loudon lost a tie break to Pal Trulsen.

In a short final Ulsrud beat reigning World Champion Kevin Martin 8-2 in just five ends to win the event.

Posted by Christine Stewart

Team Norberg will not be Sweden's representatives at Worlds

Sweden's representatives at the Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Vernon will NOT be Anette Norberg's European Champions. Norberg and her team, who beat Scotland's Kelly Wood in the final at Fussen, have lost out to Stina Viktorsson of Skellefteå in the battle to become Sweden's representatives at the World event.

Swedish Curling Association's General Secretary Hakan Sundstrom reports that former World and Olympic Champion Norberg played Viktorsson three times in Karlstad. Viktorsson won all three games, first in the round-robin 10-4, then in the first game in the page play-off 7-6, and then in the final 9-3.

Maria Prytz plays third stones for Viktorsson, the second is Maria Wennerström, and lead is Margaretha Sigfridsson who skipped the team that was runners-up to Jackie Lockhart's Scotland in Bismarck in 2002.

Anette Norberg's photo was taken by Bob at the Euro Championships.