1.
LS Ice rink from edge of arena
0.08

2.
SV Tom Locken of U.S. pushes off rock -- team mates brush
0.18

3.
SV Crowd
0.19

4.
CU U.S. Team brush for Locken whose Locken whose rock knocks out Swedish from target area
0.26

5.
SV Roger Bredin of Sweden pushes off
0.32

6.
SV Tom Berggren of Sweden watches Bredin's rock arrive
0.35

7.
SV Swedish rock enters target area
0.50

8.
SV FAN Tom Locken pushes off
0.56

9.
SV Andres Grahn pushes off
1.04

10.
Top view U.S. Players pushes off
1.12

11.
SV Locken and team mate sweep
1.18

12.
LS Arena
1.23

13.
SV Bredin of Sweden pushes off rock, he knocks ut a U.S. rock and leaves his in the circle (2)
1.41

14.
SV Bud Summervile of U.S. pushes off rock (2)
1.49

15.
SV Crowd
1.52

16.
SV U.S. Rock enters target area
1.58

17.
LS ZOOM IN Swedish team congratulate Americans
2.05

18.
CU U.S. Captain Bud Sumervile waving
2.11

19.
SV Crowd applaud
2.14

20.
SV U.S. Team being congratulated and receiving Silver Broom
2.21



Initials SC/125


SPORT: CURLING

Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved

Background: The United States scored an easy 11 to 4 victory over Sweden in the final game of the World Curling Championships at Berne in Switzerland yesterday (23 March).

The young Swedish team's hope of retaining the championship crown they won in Regina, Canada, last year dimmed when the Americans won the fifth end. For the rest of the match, Bud Somerville from U.S. team gave the Swedes no chance of regaining the initiative.

The final was anti-climatic. The most exciting curling of the day took place in the semi-finals, when Sweden narrowly beat Canada -- champions for twelve of the seventeen years the championship has been held -- by eight ends to seven. The American team reached the final after an equally close game against the home side, Switzerland.