Jennifer Jones is perfect, beats Sweden to win Olympic gold

Left to right, Team Canada members third Kaitlyn Lawes, second Jill Officer, lead Dawn McEwen, and Skip Jennifer Jones from the St. Vital Curling Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrate after winning the women's curling gold medal after beating Team Sweden 6-3 at the Ice Cube Curling Center during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014. Al Charest/Calgary Sun/QMI Agency OLY2014                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     By Ted Wyman ,Winnipeg Sun: SOCHI, RUSSIA - As she watched her last rock sliding down the pebble, straight and true as usual, the gold medal just seconds away, Jennifer Jones thought of all the people back home, living and dying with her every Olympic moment.
This was for them.
It was for her too, of course, and her teammates and family and friends and everyone else who made a decades-long journey to the top of the Olympic podium possible.
But really it was for all of Canada, which was why Jones relished the experience of being an Olympian so richly. And it was for her home province of Manitoba and her hometown of Winnipeg.
“We did it, we did it,” Jones said after her 6-3 win over Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson in a tense gold medal game at the Ice Cube Curling Center Thursday.
“We achieved this moment for so many people in our lives. All of our friends and families, the city of Winnipeg, all of Manitoba and Canada and that is priceless really. There’s no bigger moment or feeling in the world than that.
“I couldn’t believe it. To have all of Canada behind us, not the pressure of it but the excitement of having all those people cheering us on and people in Winnipeg cheering us on, sitting there on the edge of their seats, and we did it for them, too.”...Continue reading...