What a match!
Canada lost the game on a badly played stone by their captain on the last end and then Sweden played a perfect 11th end to win it.
It’s a good thing I don’t really care for curling very much, otherwise I might have been upset that you spoiled it for me …
Did you see the bronze metal match between China and Switzerland? The Swiss Skip missed a lot of shots.
Yeah, Canada’s skip missed some important shots – including an easy draw for two in the second end – and made (IMO) a major strategic mistake in going for the blank in the eighth end, assuming that Sweden would then hand the hammer back in the ninth.
I thought the Canadian rink played rather poorly for the first 5 ends. Then the Swedish skip completely blew two shots to allow steals of 2 and 1 and basically gift the game to the Canadians. Not to be outdone by such Nordic politeness, Bernard gifted it back by missing the open hit in the 10th and then a relatively easy double in the 11th.
I think the lack of big stage international experience was showing there at the end.
Does this mean curling is finally off my TV? I swear, there has been more Olympic coverage of that than anything else I’ve seen this year…why?!
Nope, two men’s matches tomorrow: bronze and gold.
You will not see any of it for 4 years, gotta have all the possible airtime
who won?
Did anyone notice that the Swedish captain looked exactly like Benny Hill?
That’s mean:); let’s say Benny Hill’s daughter.
The Cannuck captain however…I’m more than willing to confort her.
China
I’ve nver actually watched curling before (and I kind of enjoyed it), but damn my heart went out to her.
Congtrats to Sweden.
That was a horrible way to lose. It could scar a person’s soul for life.
In that 10th frame/inning/end/whatever, I wonder why the Canadians didn’t play for the block on their penultimate stone, since the Swedes had already played a blocking stone of their own (which the Canadians had kept blasting out of play), with those two stones all nice and tight near the button (Canada being closer). Wouldn’t that have necessitated a virtual miracle shot by the Swedes, to either somehow manuever through the maze of blocking stones or to attempt a very hard double hit to get the Canadian stone off of the button? Instead they just blasted it away again, leaving things nice & wide open for the last two stones and subsequent Canadian f***up. Maybe to a novice like me the subtleties here escape me? [Pardon my vernacular]
Amen to that!
I believe that the concern with this strategy is that if the Swedes made the raise takeout(not sure if that’s what you’d call that shot), then the Canadians are screwed.
I’m no expert, but it seems to me that Canada’s big mistake, other than missing the double at the end, was to have put off dealing with the stones in the house. If Sweden had made a better shot with their last rock and not left the double there, what was Canada going to do?
Naw, she looks way too much like Michelle Batshit Bachmann.
I never let politics get on the way of my being a gentleman.
This was the 11th end, not the 10th, but yes. Because those rocks were glued together, guarding was bad strategy. Sweden would have run back whichever guard looked easiest onto the pair of stones, and any contact would have left Sweden counting, most likely completely buried and with no open paths for Canada to draw to the button.
I thought throughout the end they should have come after that pair of stones with big weight to move things around. The positioning was just too advantageous for Sweden. Then Sweden finally hits them and leaves a fairly easy double, I figured Bernard had lucked out yet again. Then she just flat out misses the broom for the second time in two ends.