THE CANADIAN PRESS
CAMROSE, Alberta. — Team World captured the Continental Cup curling event Sunday with a 208-192 victory over Team North America.
Needing only eight points in the 55-point men’s Skins game to clinch the Cup, Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud did just enough in a 40-15 loss to Kevin Martin of Edmonton.
It’s the third Cup win for Team World, following victories in 2003 in Thunder Bay, Ont., and in 2006 in Chilliwack, B.C. North America won the 2002, 2004 and 2007 competitions.
Sunday marked the third Cup win for Sweden’s Anette Norberg, Cathrine Lindahl and Anna Svard. Scotland’s David Murdoch, Ewan MacDonald and Euan Byers and Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott, Valeria Spalty and Janine Greiner each won their second title.
While there will definitely not be a Continental Cup in 2009 — the Olympic curling trials will take its spot on the calendar — no decision has been made yet whether to continue the Ryder Cup-style competition in 2010.