Given all the threads focused on curling during the Olympics I thought I’d point out that the US Women’s Team has made it to the World Championship finals. They’ll be playing for the gold medal staring at 12 PM today.
Check out the event’s home page
And to track the end by end scoring click on the Ford Women’s Curling link at CurlCast.
Best of luck to Debbie, Allison, Nicole and Natalie!
What happened to the cute blond sisters? I could listen to them yell “hurry…HARD!” all day long.
Jamie and Cassie…uh…what was their last name again?
Johnson I think.
Well it was a fantastic game. Came down to the last end with the US sitting 2 and the Swedishh skip needing to make a draw to the 4 foot to win. Which she did, barely. The US lost by 1, but what a good game. 
I went curling yesterday for the first time! I loved it. Weird though, my right leg is sore and I thought it would be my left…
I think half that US team is from the rink I went to.
Alas, the Fabulous Curling Babes of the Women’s Olympic Team didn’t represent the United States at the World Championships. However, the Worlds team did better and came within an inch of winning the whole thing.
I just “rescued” a Cassie Johnson poster from my curling club before it closed down for the summer.
Ah, we only took bronze. Too bad.
I just started curling and it’s my head that hurts. I slipped on the ice and gave myself a concussion.
So did a guy that went for the first time with me. I didn’t see the wipe-out though.
Now I know why they make the little kids wear helmets.
You didn’t miss much. People who heard me go down said they thought it was just another rock.
You know, between Women’s Curling and Women’s Gymnastics… 
For me it was the knee. I kept trying to slide on the non-sliding foot and fell three times, and whacked my knee in the exact same spot each time. Luckily, the ice kept the canteloupe sized bump cold.
How did you manage that, if you don’t mind my asking? I’m right handed, and I feel like I’ve got better balance and strength on my right leg, so it feels a little sub-optimal to be crouched and sliding with all my weight on my left foot. But I can’t find any other way to do it. If I had my right foot forward, I think my ankle would be hitting the stone, with the ankle getting the worst of it. Were you just getting your feet mixed up during the delivery and trying to push off with the slider foot?
And where is there a curling club near Seattle?
It helps if you’re a klutz… I can trip over anything.
and it was while I was sweeping or just moving around on the ice (which makes it worse). If I’m on the left side of the stone, no problem - I push on the right, slide on the left, everything works beautifully. But on the right side of the stone (or just doing nothing in particular) I’d take a step and start to try to slide on my right foot, which isn’t going to slide because it has traction, but my weight would still shift so I’d spend a desperate moment trying to regain balance on my left, which had no traction, so it wasn’t much help, and then Wham I bash my knee on the ice.
Granite Curling Club - it’s kind of near Northgate
I took my slider off when I was sweeping. The stones were only going at a walking pace and it didn’t seem worth sliding around when I didn’t have to.
For all the good it did; I still wound up in bed for a week.