{"id":6402,"date":"2026-02-14T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/6402\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:30:09","slug":"switzerland-hands-canadas-jacobs-his-first-loss-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/6402\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland hands Canada\u2019s Jacobs his first loss &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Gregory Strong<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted February 14, 2026 10:36 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO \u2013 Switzerland\u2019s Yannick Schwaller defeated Canada\u2019s Brad Jacobs 9-5 on Saturday afternoon at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was the first loss of round-robin play for the Calgary-based team of Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss foursome opened with hammer and used it for an early deuce. 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Any future improper conduct could result in a player suspension, World Curling said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland (4-0) was clinical in its attack with fourth Benoit Schwarz-van Berkel leading the way. He shot a game-high 97 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Canada fell to 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gregory Strong The Canadian Press Posted February 14, 2026 10:36 am 1 min read Descrease article font&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4543,307,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-6402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-2026-olympics","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-switzerland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}