OT - Olympics - Curling fail

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Russian curler tries to avoid deflected stone, fails miserably

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We've all heard Brian profess his love for curling, but until I see hard evidence he's stable on ice, I don't buy it.

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JHendo

February 13th, 2014 at 3:35 PM ^

Meh, the guy is on the ice sweeping a single spot harder than all the combined sweeps of a broom I've ever done in my life.  I'll give him a free pass on this one.

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carolina blue

February 13th, 2014 at 3:37 PM ^

its hard to watch the USA play. in the blowout loss to GBR we had the rock and one already locked with the board otherwise clean...all we needed was to HIT THE HOUSE and we couldn't even do that.

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gbdub

February 13th, 2014 at 4:40 PM ^

I don't believe that's an actual "mercy rule". In curling it's fairly common for a team that cannot realistically win to concede the game during or prior to the final end. Conceding in this way is not frowned upon, indeed it is considered poor etiquette to not concede (except in elimination games I believe the losing team cannot concede until the final end, to avoid shenanigans).

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Canada loves S…

February 13th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^

Watched Denmark v Canada at 1:00 a.m. today. Was it my imagination or were 90% of the women smoking hot. Not like the old days when the women were matronly and had cigarettes hanging out of their mouths while sweeping

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stephenrjking

February 13th, 2014 at 10:50 PM ^

It's a restaurant in a nice spot on the Lake, but he doesn't work there anymore; took some time off to raise the kids and, presumably, work on curling.
Four years ago he worked at the golf course that's two minutes from my house.
One of the things I like about curling is the "Everyman" feel the American athletes bring. These are, literally, people I can pass and meet on the street. With real jobs and real lives. They haven't spent the last 20 years at government-funded athletic academies to build their form.
Plus, for me, they're local.
The big problem with this is that the teams are at a serious disadvantage on the international stage. The difference between how serious top-level curling is in the US compared to Canada is analogous to the difference in college football between the two, in reverse.
They are every men and women, but they'll have a hard time medaling.

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clarkiefromcanada

February 13th, 2014 at 5:52 PM ^

FWIW, Most top end curlers don't train full time on it. Not enough money even with sponsors/federal sport funding.

The Canadian Men have various occupations in Sault Ste. Marie; I think the skip, Brad Jacobs, is a banker.

On the women's side the Skip Jennifer Jones (a former World Champion) is a Winnipeg attorney.

Regular Canadians/Elite Athletes

A few nations train full time like Russia, China etc.; grassroots curling here starts so young you can't teach the game, the calls, the feel etc. They're mechanically excellent but lose to Canada most of the time and quite often to Americanmteams as well.

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The Claw

February 13th, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^

For the first time. Fell on my ass hard one time as well. One girl fell and hit her head hard and was really hurting. You have to be careful but boy was it fun. 100x better than bowling. And of course drinks were glowing the whole time!

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