{"id":432881,"date":"2023-04-08T18:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432881"},"modified":"2023-07-24T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T11:45:04","slug":"canada-beat-sweden-to-reach-%c2%bd-finals-at-mens-curling-worlds","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-beat-sweden-to-reach-%C2%BD-finals-at-mens-curling-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada beat Sweden to reach \u00bd finals at men&#8217;s curling worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Brad Gushue destroyed the current and 4<sup>th<\/sup>-time champion Niklas Edin from Sweden 9-1 in a qualification match at T.D. palace this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview after his victory, Gushue said he was not expecting such a high result. But they were placed to make mistakes after our great start, creating opportunities that we fulfill.<\/p>\n<p>The player from St. John&#8217;s, N.L., and his partners Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, and Geoff Walker will face in the \u00bd final the top-seeded Yannick Schwaller from Switzerland this evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">SEMI-FINAL | Switzerland \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded v Canada \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>19:00 (UTC-4)<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fy3vfdBx89\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/fy3vfdBx89<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WMCC2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WMCC2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1rlfETocI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1rlfETocI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World Curling (@worldcurling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldcurling\/status\/1644795283300139008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The final will be on Sunday afternoon, as the losing sides will meet for a match for a bronze in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Gushue earned 2 silver medals in his last 2 opportunities in the tournament. In addition, the Canadian has one championship, which he won in 2017 in Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Brad Gushue destroyed the current and 4th-time champion Niklas Edin from Sweden 9-1 in a qualification match at T.D. palace this afternoon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432882,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16715],"gn_keywords":[18678,18679],"acf":{"announce":"We will see a new winner at the world men's curling championship.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432881"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432881"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}