in the Winter Games today – our Fabulous Curlers were shut out. The Babes were up against the Canucks, who play at a superhuman level. There should be two Olympic Curling competitions, one for the Frozen Ones, and one for everbody else, just to make it fair. It looked like we had a chance going into the final end, but Fabulous Kari went for the draw (she had the hammer), and she was too heavy, missing the button and losing shot rock. It can happen to anybody.
The Dudes had their match with the Krauts in the bag, but Tim’s hammer didn’t get any bite and simply refused to curl, so he lost shot rock by a mile. This was a heartbreaking loss, and it was hard for Tim to get over it and back in his form until he was into the fifth end or so against the Norwayans. The trouble in this match was some poor strategy and weak sweeping due to poor communication between Sneeland and the sweepers. Sneeland has to go – he’s pulling the rest of the team down.
There was some other stuff going on with snow, boards, and sticks but none of it very interesting except Biathlon.
NBC should do us all a favor and shut up about that ice skating crap already. The British press has been tearing into the vain Canuck team, and if you’re all very good I might blog some of that later.
One of the highlights of Curling is the expert commentary, which never uses any wishy-washy phrases like “self-esteem” and never stints on the trashing of dumb moves. And there are plenty of dumb moves in Curling, which is what makes it so great.