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

[Swewi 470]

Not fun to play Round robin dominant Switzerland for bronze But still well deserved by Muirhead and also happy for Fujisawa!

[orangeman 2,435]

That game was bananas.  

[Swewi 470]

Just now, orangeman said:

That game was bananas.  

Not often you lose when you score 11 in curling

[orangeman 2,435]

Just now, Swewi said:

Not often you lose when you score 11 in curling

Or after scoring 4 in the first end (and 3 in the 10th end).  

[Nickyc707 382]

6 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Pretty big upsets in both semis. and are going to be pretty annoyed to be meeting each other in the bronze medal game.

In a sense I agree with you but I wonder if GB really were the underdogs against Sweden. Last November the same Scotland/GB team beat the same Swedish team 8-5 in the round-Robins and 7-4 in the final of the European Championships. They then followed that up with an 8-2 win in the round-Robin in Beijing so the form line actually favoured GB.

[Dunadan 1,103]

Thankfully GBR got 2 medals so they will participate in Milano-Cortina after all. After reading the forum, I was extremely worried that they wouldn't find the money to send a few athletes for the first time in history. 

[Fly_like_a_don 1,147]

So happy for Japan. Great match loved every bit of it. 

[Grassmarket 4,166]

52 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

In a sense I agree with you but I wonder if GB really were the underdogs against Sweden. Last November the same Scotland/GB team beat the same Swedish team 8-5 in the round-Robins and 7-4 in the final of the European Championships. They then followed that up with an 8-2 win in the round-Robin in Beijing so the form line actually favoured GB.

That was what I thought as well.  Sweden has been on top of / for so long that they have been really rattled by three (now four!) consecutive tournament defeats this season. 

[Nickyc707 382]

Checked through the records and the GB/Sweden aggregate score of 23 appears to be a record since the sport returned to the OG in 1998. The best previously appears to have been a couple of 21 point matches.

 

However, at the sports only previous appearance in 1924 - only France, GB and Sweden competed - the matches were played over 18 ends rather than the current 10 and produced aggregate scores of 28, 45 and 50.

[Griff88 2,018]

Call it stereotyping or whatever, but I love watching the Japanese team... Watching the SF replay and I can't stop thinking "ah kawaii"