curling

[Justin]

i should try and find the book.."curling for dummies". i would probably enjoy it more if i understood what they were trying to accomplish with every rock. i think it was Swift Current that i was at many years ago, when i saw it for the first time. i had a meeting in this building and a whole herd of folks were curling. from little tikes that couldn't hardly walk to old folks that couldn't hardly walk. it was fun to watch.

[Yanuck]

Curling is a team Olympic sport in which stones are slid across a sheet of carefully prepared ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard.

Two teams of four players take turns sliding heavy, polished blue hone granite stones[1] across the ice towards the house (a circular target marked on the ice). The purpose is to complete each end (delivery of eight or ten stones [depending on recreational or competitive play] for each team) with the team's stones closer to the centre of the house than the other team's stones. Two sweepers with brooms or brushes accompany each stone and use stopwatches and their best judgment, along with direction from their teammates, to help direct the stones to their resting place, but without touching the stones.

[Oldtimer]

[Northern Rancher]

Those old cloth pounders used to make you break a sweat!!!

[cowsense]

Didn't look like the US team understood curling too well today either.......however Canada did give them a lesson!

[Big Muddy rancher]

[hillsdown]

Woo hoo, the Canadian women's team beat the Brits in extra innings this morning..

Curling has been great to watch this year, in both mens and womens.

[Ben H]

I stopped for a beer on the way home from work last night and met a few friends. Next to us at the bar was a couple guys who were really "in" to curling. We got our entertainment watching them get excited over it.

[Oldtimer]

I came in last night from checking heifers- and Grandma was watching the Gold medal game of womens curling... I got interested and sat down and watched it.. I think its the first full match I watched since they went to the push brooms- and isn't as exciting (?) as back when they had the old witches type brooms....

Anyway-- I was rooting for the Canucks- but all those big blonde Swede girls beat them...

We had a question- what kind of shoes do those curlers wear that they have traction to move quickly -but still seem to skate on them?

[burnt]

Oh my goodness, I never saw two teams who tried so hard to give it to the other team all throughout the game.

In the end, Bernard managed to give it to the Swedes who didn't have the chance to give it back to Canada since Canada had last shot.

Anette Norberg, the big Swedish girl, with her icy blue eyes and almost peroxide blond hair, had a stare that could instantly freeze molten lava when she stared down the sheet after her throw. Every time she'd stare down the ice following her shot I had to grab a warm coat to stave off the chills and shivers . . . Wow, those Vikings must have been a fearsome lot in their day!!


But at the other end was our own Cheryl Bernard who could melt a mountain of ice with a glance - ooowwoooow!

[VanC]

I'd imagine that everyone old enough remembers when the U.S. hockey team beat the Soviet Union in 1980. But many don't remember that they had to beat Finland two days later to win the gold. They were losing 2-1 after two periods and Herb Brooks told his team "If you lose this game, you'll take it to your f###ing graves."
I thought of that last night. Bernard will relive that last shot the rest of her life.

[Big Muddy rancher]