The Swedish women's curling team blanks the first end against the Swiss, moving the hammer to the even rounds. If the first end is any indication, both teams will play very conservatively, and wait for the other side to make a mistake.

Update: Nice placement by Sweden and a perfect hammer shot gives the artic team two points in the second end. The Swiss play with the hammer for the first time in end three, trailing 2-0.

Update: The Swiss third Binia Beeli makes two nice shots to set up skip Mirjam Ott for two points and a tie game after three ends. Both teams appear to have the measure of the ice in this match.

Update: The Swiss come back from an early mistake and force Sweden to take one point in the fourth end. Sweden leads 3-2, and the Swiss have the hammer going into the fifth end.

Update: Up to the minute stats for the game are here.

Update: A poor second shot by Swiss third Binia Beeli prevents the Swiss from scoring two. Instead, they blank the end to get the hammer in the even ends. Lots of great double take outs in that end, and Swedish skip Anette Norberg and Swiss skip Mirjam Ott continue to shoot to perfection. Sweden leads 3-2 as they resurface the ice.

Correction: Fixed the score.

Update: In a battle of thirds, Beeli makes two mistakes, and Eva Lund (who could be Ilsa Lund's sister) capitalizes on them to set Sweden up for the steal. Norberg continues her great shooting as skip to seal the deal as Ott fails to move the Swedish shot rock out. It's 4-2 Sweden after six, and they get the hammer back in the even rounds.

Update: On the last stone of the seventh end, Ott's stone picks up a piece of debris on the ice and hits a guard. Sweden steals one on another brilliant shot by Annette Norberg. It's 5-2, and the Swiss need a big end to comeback.

Update: The Swiss get two in the eighth end. The Swiss had shot rock in the button, with a Swedish stone frozen near it. Ott came down, kissed the Swedish stone and rolled by it by a hair to take two and make the score 5-4 Sweden going to the 9th end. I wonder is Sweden will try to blank the 9th to take hammer into the 10th?

Update: Ott forces Norberg to take one in the 9th. Sweden leads 6-4 going into the final end, but the Swiss have the hammer. This is the best curling match I've seen so far.

Update: Eva Lund trys to take out two Swiss guards, but puts one in the house. That allows Norberg and Ott to trade shots, and the Swiss tie the game with two in the tenth. Sweden goes to the extra end with the hammer for the gold medal.

Update: A great tenth end. The Swedish lead misses her first two shots, leaving Switzerland with two front guards, but the Swedish second runs them off. The end winds up with the Swiss with two stones in the house, but Ott left her last shot two close to the other. Norberg goes for the gold with the double, knocks off both Swiss stone and leaves her's in the house for the gold. A superb match! Congratulations to the Swedes on the win and to the Swiss for the silver medal.