Go, Canada!

[kevin_standlee]

Well, Canada's men's ice hockey team might have slunk home with their tails between their legs (along with the US team), but their curling team did them proud. I was working from home today so I got to see the gold medal final live.

Canada crushed Finland 10-4, with Finland conceding defeat after the eighth (of ten possible) "end" (inning). The game had been pretty tight until the sixth end, when Canada was left with six stones (of eight) sitting in the "house" (the scoring target) with one stone left and Finland out of rocks. The only reason they didn't get an incredible seven is because the team's "skip" (captain) got so excited that he threw the last stone too hard and it sailed completely through the house.

Six! Curling is a game that where it appears that if you score more than one point when you have the "hammer" (last throw of the end) or anything when you don't (the equivalent of in tennis breaking someone's serve), you should feel good about it.

Now I can go back to getting sleep at night instead of staying up late and getting up early to watch curling matches.

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

And go US; the men's curling team won the bronze, I believe their first curling medal ever.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Good point, and something I should have mentioned, but the accumulated late nights had caught up to me and I didn't see most of the USA-GBR match. OTOH, I happened to wake up just in time to turn on the TV and watch the last stone of the game, which the Americans drew perfectly to win the game and take the bronze.

[kshandra]

And Team USA won a curling medal! How wild is that?!

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Bemidji, Minnesota must be the happiest place in the USA today.

[johnnyeponymous.livejournal.com]

I totally called that they were gonna take bronze. I was half-rooting for Canada so that I could be right for once on the Olympics
Chris