Curling Mixed Doubles Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Grassmarket 4,064]

That was a great first session!  OK, not very good technically, but drama and excitement in every single match.  Going to have to revise my timetable slightly to watch a few more sessions.  

[Hipooo 640]

11 minutes ago, hckošice said:

First ever win in first ever curling appearance

YEEEEES! Amazing last two ends! 

[hckošice 15,556]

Round-Robin

 

Day 1 RESULTS (GMT +8)

 

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Round-Robin
China Standard Time (GMT 8)

 

Sweden 5 - 9 Great Britain
February 2nd 2022, h. 13:05, National Aquatics Center - Sheet A, Beijing

 

Australia 5 - 6 United States
February 2nd 2022, h. 13:05, National Aquatics Center - Sheet B, Beijing

 

Norway 6 - 7 Czech Republic
February 2nd 2022, h. 13:05, National Aquatics Center - Sheet C, Beijing

 

China 7 - 6 Switzerland
February 2nd 2022, h. 13:05, National Aquatics Center - Sheet D, Beijing

 

Round-Robin Provisional Standing After Day 1

 

Nation	P	W	L	Pt.
China	1	1	0	1
Czech Republic	1	1	0	1
Great Britain	1	1	0	1
United States	1	1	0	1
Australia	1	0	1	0
Norway	1	0	1	0
Sweden	1	0	1	0
Switzerland	1	0	1	0
Canada	0	0	0	0
Italy	0	0	0	0

 

[hckošice 15,556]

13 minutes ago, Hipooo said:

YEEEEES! Amazing last two ends! 

Absolutely awesom. To be fair I had no faith on them after that bad power play in the 7th. Being 3-6 down before last end with NOR having last stone advantage.

 

Wow what an epic return. will follow this team closely, they seriously have potential to do something crazy in this tournament.

[Jan Linha 597]

The recovery from team Paulova/Paul was absolutely incredible ..... They made their mistakes, too, when they let  take the 6:3 lead. But the 8th end was something nobody would ever expect .... 6:6 and in the extra end. Tomáš Paul played nice pocket stone, Nedregotten unfortunately played bad stone on the top of red circle they could not even make a take out. So for Skaslien it was a very difficult situation.... they had to take the risk .... Anyways, I am super excited and happy for their victory today. First ever Olympic Game and first victory, moreover, very precious victory against bronze medalists from Pyeongchang. Really great job!!!

[dcro 10,210]

Anyone else feels the main graphics are too Christmassy with that cheesy animated snow? Pyeongchang had much more subtle snowflakes.

[Griff88 2,009]

1 hour ago, Vic Liu said:

 first win 7-6  on extra game.

My aunt called me to notify the results and sent me the video of the last stone. A few hours before the match she told me “wtf is curling?”  

[Vic Liu 1,693]

2 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

My aunt called me to notify the results and sent me the video of the last stone. A few hours before the match she told me “wtf is curling?”  

Hahaha. #Curling is trending no.1 on Weibo now, after a big loss of football yesterday on the first day of Chinese new year, curling finally bring some holiday joy for leisure Chinese.

[NearPup 3,509]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

Anyone else feels the main graphics are too Christmassy with that cheesy animated snow? Pyeongchang had much more subtle snowflakes.

There is more snow on the graphics than on the ground.

 

I live in Dallas, Texas and it looks like we might get more snowfall tomorrow than Beijing will get the entire Olympics xD

[Vektor 3,326]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Anyone else feels the main graphics are too Christmassy with that cheesy animated snow? Pyeongchang had much more subtle snowflakes.

They have to remind viewers what snowfall looks like because they sure won't see any during these Winter Games.