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VANCOUVER - Kevin Martin has waited eight years to get a second shot at Olympic gold.

VANCOUVER '€” It might be the scariest game in curling, and no team has more to lose in it than Kevin Martin'€™s Team Canada foursome.

A perfect round-robin record, capped by Tuesday'€™s 10-3 win over China'€™s Fengchun Wang, accompanied by pre-event status as overwhelming gold-medal favourites in addition to four years of work all aimed at playing in Saturday'€™s gold-medal game at the Vancouver Olympic Centre '€” it all means nothing unless Martin, third John Morris, second Marc Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert win Thursday'€™s semifinal.

VANCOUVER '€” Canada'€™s Kevin Martin has finished off the Olympic men'€™s curling round-robin in perfect fashion.

VANCOUVER (AFP)(AP) -- Kevin Martin crouches into his curling stance, gently brushes the ice with his hand to move any flakes and gives the sheet in front of him one last stare. He releases his rock, then talks it all the way to the house.

The stone settles perfectly in the button. He sure has been on target in these Olympics.

VANCOUVER '€” The tuneups are done '€” now comes the game Kevin Martin and his Canadian Olympic men'€™s curling team has been waiting for.

The Canadians rolled to their fifth straight round-robin win Friday afternoon at the Vancouver Olympic Centre, hammering Ulrik Schmidt of Denmark 10-3 to maintain sole possession of first place in the 10-team tournament.

VANCOUVER '€” It was an early showdown that lost its spark in a hurry.

The stars of today, Kevin Martin'€™s Team Canada foursome, made short work of the stars of tomorrow, Niklas Edin'€™s young Swedish team, and cruised home with a 7-3 men'€™s curling victory before another packed house Thursday at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.

VANCOUVER '€” In the end, it was a draw to the four-foot for the victory, and as Team Canada vice-skip John Morris put it, "I don't think he's missed too many of those in his career."

Well, in fact, there was one, and the man Canadian skip Kevin Martin (with different teammates then) missed it against back in the 2002 Winter Olympics gold-medal game, Pal Trulsen, was sitting right behind him Tuesday morning at the Vancouver Olympic Centre as the national coach of the Norwegian team Martin was about to defeat in an extra end.

VANCOUVER '€” In the end, it was a draw to the four-foot for the victory, and as Team Canada vice-skip John Morris put it, "I don't think he's missed too many of those in his career."

Well, in fact, there was one, and the man Canadian skip Kevin Martin (with different teammates then) missed it against back in the 2002 Winter Olympics gold-medal game, Pal Trulsen, was sitting right behind him Tuesday morning at the Vancouver Olympic Centre as the national coach of the Norwegian team Martin was about to defeat in an extra end.

VANCOUVER '€” In the end, it was a draw to the four-foot for the victory, and as Team Canada vice-skip John Morris put it, '€œI don'€™t think he'€™s missed too many of those in his career.'€

Well, in fact, there was one, and the man Canadian skip Kevin Martin (with different teammates then) missed it against back in the 2002 Winter Olympics gold-medal game, Pal Trulsen, was sitting right behind him Tuesday morning at the Vancouver Olympic Centre as the national coach of the Norwegian team Martin was about to defeat in an extra end.

VANCOUVER '€” There'€™s an irony that the greatest curling competition on the planet will be played in a building that wouldn'€™t be considered suitable to host a Brier.

But that'€™s not the point of the Vancouver Olympic Centre, said the president of the World Curling Federation on Sunday during the first on-ice practices.