Olympic Excitement

[Sophie Scholl]

Saw the women's Snowboarding.  They was hot.  At least some of them.

Danish Curlers.   Now with skirts!

[Razgovory]

Yeah, I saw them.  They were cute.  Still don't understand the game though. 

Also so the US-Swiss game.  If you looked closely you could see them accidentally drop some of that Nazi gold.

[PRC]

Hiller played great and the Swiss have definitely arrived.  They're a hockey power now and will be for a decade at least.  The Slovaks and the Czechs aren't producing players like they were in the nineties... the Swiss have taken their spot in the Sun.

[Syt]

The German curling women lost 6-5 against the Canucks.

[PRC]

Great Russia vs. Slovak game tonight!

[Barrister]

Yeah, I saw them.  They were cute.  Still don't understand the game though. 

Feel free to ask me any questions. 

[DGuller]

Thanks to Beeb, I now understood the rules of the game.  However, I have no feel for what is a good throw, and what is a bad one (unless it's down to a couple of shots of the end, where the objective is pretty clear).

[MadBurgerMaker]

Great Russia vs. Slovak game tonight!

  Nice goal to tie it just now.

[PRC]

Thanks to Beeb, I now understood the rules of the game.  However, I have no feel for what is a good throw, and what is a bad one (unless it's down to a couple of shots of the end, where the objective is pretty clear).

Just pour yourself a rye n' coke, light a cigarette, and you're agiee.

[PRC]

  Nice goal to tie it just now.

Awesome finish... great game!

[MadBurgerMaker]

Awesome finish... great game!

Man that last shot to win was just beautiful.

[Barrister]

Thanks to Beeb, I now understood the rules of the game.  However, I have no feel for what is a good throw, and what is a bad one (unless it's down to a couple of shots of the end, where the objective is pretty clear).

Well that's the fun of the sport - there's quite a bit of strategy to curling.  It's even been compared to chess - you have to think several moves ahead.  Not just what your shot will do, but what will happen in the next several shots.

I had fun tonight.  I curl on Thursday nights, but afterwards we all went to the lounge and watched the end of the Canada-France game.

[Grey Fox]

Halak Halak Halak!

[dps]

Yeah, I saw them.  They were cute.  Still don't understand the game though. 

Feel free to ask me any questions. 

Beeb, I noticed that the matches (is that the correct term in curling?) on the 16th all had real close score--basically a bunch of 1-point wins (the matches from the 17 not so much so).  Are very close matches the norm, or are the sides just that closely matched.  At an Olympic level, I would tend to think there'd be a number of blowouts--we see that in most other team sports, where some of the nations frankly seem to get in just to have enough teams to conduct a tournament.

[Agelastus]

Beeb, I noticed that the matches (is that the correct term in curling?) on the 16th all had real close score--basically a bunch of 1-point wins (the matches from the 17 not so much so).  Are very close matches the norm, or are the sides just that closely matched.  At an Olympic level, I would tend to think there'd be a number of blowouts--we see that in most other team sports, where some of the nations frankly seem to get in just to have enough teams to conduct a tournament.

Well, I may not be Beeb, but I believe most of the Olympic sports introduced some fairly strict qualifying standards to avoid any "Eddy the Eagle" repeats.

Also, curling has struck me as being very similar to bowls in many respects, a sport where very tight scores are also common.