14 February 2026
Denmark claim second round robin win at Olympic Winter Games
Denmark beat Republic of Korea by 6-3 in Saturday evening’s fifth women’s round-robin session to keep themselves in the top half of the rankings.
After the Koreans blanked the first end, the teams swapped singles to go into the fifth-end break level at 2-2.
Denmark scored another single point in the sixth end when skip Madeleine Dupont drew her final stone onto the button. In the seventh, Korean skip Gim Eunji attempted a double take-out, but left a Danish stone clinging on at the back of the house, to give up a steal of one and increase the Danish lead to 4-2.
In the eighth end, Korea’s Gim played a raise take-out and it took an umpire’s measure to give her team one point that reduced the Danish lead to 4-3. In the ninth, Denmark’s Dupont was facing four Korean counting stones when she successfully played an in-off on a winger to put her own stone on the button for one point and an improved lead of 5-3.
In a cagey tenth end, Korea’s Gim tried a lengthy angle raise but didn’t quite get the angles right and gave up a steal of one. This secured Denmark their second win so far, with a final score of 6-3.
After this win, an exhausted but delighted Dupont said, “I think we out-played them tactically. In the game, she had a few key shots that she missed, I had a few key shots that I made, but that’s all it comes down to: three or four shots in the game.”
Looking forward, she said, “We have to do more of the same. It sounds stupid, like not playing-wise, but being a good team. We have to keep being a really good team, and just forgiving mistakes really easily, moving on really fast. That sort of stuff is getting us through right now. Because if we keep getting stuck on all these mistakes we make, we would never have won this game.”
In this session, Sweden — unbeaten so far at the top of the table — faced hosts Italy, who were still looking for their first win.
Sweden started with a steal of one in the first end, but Italy took the early lead in the second when their skip Stefania Constantini played a long tap-back to score two, bringing the score to 2-1.
In the third end, Sweden’s skip Anna Hasselborg drew her final stone into position to score two points for a 3-2 lead, but, in the fourth, Italy’s Constantini responded with another score of two when she took out a Swedish stone near the button. This handed Italy a 4-3 lead, but another two by Sweden in the fifth gave them a 5-4 lead at the break.
By the time the game reached the eighth end, Sweden led by 6-5 and, in that end, a hit by Hasselborg gave her one more point and a 7-5 lead. Italy scored one in the ninth to reduce the Swedish lead, but Sweden went on to win by 8-6 without having to play their last stone.
This fourth win preserves Sweden’s unbeaten record.
After this, Hasselborg said, “That was so much fun tonight. We saw in the schedule that we were playing Italy on a night draw and were looking forward to that a lot. We love the noise; we love the crowd. Even though they were cheering against us, it doesn’t matter, just bring it on!”
Speaking about her team’s performance, she said, “We’re playing well. We’re learning the ice and most importantly we’re having lots of fun out there and we’re playing great as a team.”
About the competition generally, she said, “Everyone can beat everyone — we’ve already seen that, so it’s going to be a battle every game. And every game is probably going to come down to last draw but we’re prepared for that.”
United States of America played Japan and, after the teams were tied at 3-3 at the break, the Americans took control. They followed a steal of one in the sixth end when a Japan hit-and-roll could not get inside the counting American stone, with a score of three in the eighth, when their skip Tabitha Peterson was successful with her final draw. This gave them a 7-3 lead.
They went on to win by 7-4 to share second place with Switzerland on three wins and one loss.
Switzerland’s third win came in this session when their fourth player Alina Paetz drew the button with her last stone of an extra end to beat Canada by 8-7. This was a third successive loss for Canada, who have only one win so far.
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