Men's Curling Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Mkbw50 438]

YES!!!!!!

[Agger 1,662]

Just now, Monzanator said:

Epic failure from Couldn't even force extra ends with the hammer in the last. in the final 5-3.

They didn't go for the extra ends. It was 2 or bust. Guess he didn't believe in stealing one in the extras.

[Quaker2001 251]

2 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Went for the hero shot, didn’t get it 8-4

Disappointed, but they lost to a great team.  No shame in that.  Let's see if they can reverse their fortunes against Canada to grab the bronze

[orangeman 1,989]

Curling is dead in Canada.  And we thought 2018 was a disaster.  

[hckošice 14,822]

Knockout Round

 

DAY 1 RESULTS

 

Semifinals
China Standard Time (GMT 8)

 

Sweden 5 - 3 Canada
February 17th 2022, h. 20:05, National Aquatics Center - Sheet A, Beijing

 

United States 4 - 8 Great Britain
February 17th 2022, h. 20:05, National Aquatics Center - Sheet C, Beijing

 

[Monzanator 4,499]

8 minutes ago, Agger said:

They didn't go for the extra ends. It was 2 or bust. Guess he didn't believe in stealing one in the extras.

Yeah, Polish commentators also said he was going for a two-stone risk instead of trying to steal the extra end. I have no clue if that was norm for this team or not

[Mkbw50 438]

Such an intense game, it's a shame this sport is only really important in this country every four years. Brilliant afternoon

[NearPup 3,045]

I am once again asking for everyone involved in high performance curling in Canada to be fired.

[NearPup 3,045]

22 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Yeah, Polish commentators also said he was going for a two-stone risk instead of trying to steal the extra end. I have no clue if that was norm for this team or not

It was the right call, having to steal in an extra against Edin is… not a good situation.

[Grassmarket 3,403]

5 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

Disappointed, but they lost to a great team.  No shame in that.  Let's see if they can reverse their fortunes against Canada to grab the bronze

Looking back on it, they suckered themselves into playing an unnatural game for them.  They usually like messy ends, lots of stones in play, sending down the big howitzers, making the audacious take-outs etc.  They just lost concentration after having to play the rinky-dink stuff end after end.