Team Canada at the Winter Paralympic Games Beijing 2022

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Canada with three straight huge misses, down 3 after 3 ends in the semis.  

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Thurston comes back with two beauties to score 2 in the 4th.  4-3 China.  

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Looks like Canada will play for bronze tonight.  China making the shots look easy, Canada struggling besides those two nice shots last end.  

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I hate to be the outside judging professional athletes, but not only is Canada playing incredibly badly, their decisions are ....... perplexing.  China sitting shot rock?  Better shoot to the other side and not be shot rock.  China lays a second shot rock?  Better shoot again to the other side and still not sit shock rock.  I started believing there was a strategy, that they would eventually go for all those Chinese rocks..... but they didn't.  Steal of 2 for China.  I just don't get it.  

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Anyway, the positives:

Three more medals for Canada!  

 

Hockey team beats Korea convincingly and will play for gold on Sunday!  

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In terms of total medals this is our second best ever result. We probably won't pass our 28 medal performance from 2018. By my count I think we'll finish with 26, so it'll be close.

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Fantastic bronze medal game!  Start to finish, it was incredibly entertaining.  Props to Slovakia!  That was the best curling match I've watched in a while of any variation.  Despite the score, it came down to the two shots, last shot really.  

 

In the end, I'm glad I got to watch this match because I'll be out during the gold medal game tomorrow.  So, you know, it suits my schedule better.

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Ok, but seriously, that was one of the most satisfying and exciting sporting moments from these O/Paralympics.  That game was super exciting.  

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I was on CBC's site earlier today (China time) and Olympic vids were still available.  Just shot over there now, they are gone.