American Cohen falls, slips to silver medal

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Stars of a head-banging, leather-and-chains music video back home, the Swedes played a conservative game to beat Switzerland with a double-takeout on the last stone of an extra end. Earlier, Canada beat Norway in eight ends to take the bronze.

Switzerland rallied from a 6-4 deficit in the 10th and final end of regulation to force the extra end, or inning.

In the 11th, Switzerland put one stone in the middle and piled guards in front of it before Swedish second Cathrine Lindahl took out two stones with one shot to get the edge back. Mirjam Ott curled her first stone — Switzerland’s second-to-last of the game — around a guard, but it didn’t get inside the Swedish one that was sitting on the lip of the red 4-foot circle.

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For their last chance, the Swiss talked over their options and Ott knocked Sweden out of the zone.

The Swiss called timeout. The crowd made some noise. And then it fell quiet again.

Swedish skip Anette Norberg let go of the hammer and knocked away both Swiss rocks for the victory.

Sweden won the bronze medal in Nagano, when it was promoted to full Olympic status. Norberg was an alternate on the team that won the curling silver when it was a demonstration sport in Calgary in 1988.

Ott gets a second Olympic silver to go with the one she earned as the third in Salt Lake City. But she’s still looking up at the Swedes, who have won the last six European titles — beating Switzerland each of the last three years.

Canada’s medal was the nation’s second straight bronze in women’s curling.

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