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Canada’s Koe loses morning draw to Japan, falls in evening to Edin
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Canada’s Kevin Koe was not expecting to run the table at the world men’s curling championship like he did at the Tim Hortons Brier.
The surprise on Wednesday was that his first defeat — a 9-3 loss to Japan’s Yuta Matsumura — came in blowout fashion. The result knocked Koe out of first place and stopped his 24-game winning streak.
“It ended with a bit of an abrupt thud,” Koe said. “But a loss is a loss. It was never going to go on forever, that’s for sure.”