Men's Curling Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

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Just now, dcro said:

 

Not after this loss. I wonder what's WCF's logic behind this. Losing a direct Olympic qualification game is not enjoyable, so 3rd teams are always in advantage over the 1st-2nd loser.

The Czechs will be nervous too though. They didn't want Denmark at all. And they have the demons of 2013 in their minds no doubt.

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And there it is! Succes!

[dcro 10,210]

Well done.

 

Now I have teams to support. Let's go Danish teams and Team Eve Muirhead.

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7 hours ago, phelps said:

Yessss!!!!

 

Italy's men are going to Korea!!! first qualification ever for our Curling sport...

 

but what a painful last ends they were...Gonin is just unable, Mosaner is completely crazy and lucky...but, despite not deserving it at all, at the end we have been gifted this historical win...

 

now let's hope that Gaspari is in a better state of mind than yesterday evening and the girls can earn their Olympic ticket, too...

That's curling sometimes. You can win by being better than your opponent or you can win because your opponent made a costly mistake at the wrong time.

 

Congrats to  and  . It's really good for the quality of the competition that Denmark qualified, they are a legitimate medal contender. As for Italy, nice to see them back after so many years but it's definitively a surprise that they qualified.

 

I feel very bad for  and Snitil, though. Second Olympics in a row where he loses his Olympic qualification playoff...

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Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert and (presumably) Scott Pfeifer will represent Canada in men's curling at the 2018 Olympics.

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Devastated... This team really deserved it. Now Snitil's going to retire. 

There isn't any reallocation chance, is there..

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Olympic Winter Games 2018 teams’ curling schedule published

The PyeongChang 2018 Organising Committee Olympic Winter Games recently published the women’s and men’s curling teams' schedule for the upcoming Games in February 2018.

 

The women’s and men’s teams’ competition will run from Wednesday 14 February until Sunday 25 February and comes after the newly introduced mixed doubles tournament, which begins on 8 February

 

Ten teams will compete in the women’s and men’s events. They are:

 

Women: Canada, China, Denmark, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Olympic Athletes from Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and United States

 

Men: Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and United States

 

The tournament format will be a round-robin – three draws per day – followed by a session of tie-breakers if required, then semi-finals and finals. The round-robin will be played between 14 and 21 February. The tie-breakers will follow at 09:05 on Thursday 22 February. Also, that day will be the men’s semi-finals at 20:04.

 

On Friday 23 February, the men’s bronze medal game is at 15:35 and the women’s semi-finals are at 20:04. Saturday 24 February sees the men’s gold medal game take place at 15:35, followed by the women’s bronze medal game at 20:04.

 

The Olympic curling concludes on Sunday 25 February at 09:05 with the women’s gold medal final. This is the first time the women’s final has come last at the Games, since its debut in Nagano, Japan, in 1998.

At the end of the round-robin the teams will be ranked one to ten, with the first ranked team playing the fourth ranked team (1v4) and the second ranked team playing the third ranked team in the semi-finals (2v3).

 

The men’s defending champion nation, Canada will open their round-robin campaign in the first session of play on Wednesday 14 February against Italy, who recently qualified out of the Olympic Qualification Event in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Also, in that session, the hosts Korea will meet United States.

 

Canada’s women’s team – again the defending champion nation and the current world champions – open their campaign at 09:05 on Thursday 15 February against the hosts Korea.

 

Full Schedule:

 

http://www.worldcurling.org/owg2018/schedule

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This Kevin Koe team is stupidly stacked, on paper it's debatable whether it's the best or second best team Canada has ever sent to the Olympics (the other in contention being Kevin Martin's 2010 team that went 11-0). Obviously they aren't the only strong team (Edin and Ulsrud especially have very strong teams) but if they play to their potential they should win.

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This Skip-Lead-First-Second table is not completely correct, as Skip doesn't need to be the Fourth.

 

Italian Skip is Third, while their "Third" is Fourth.

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39 minutes ago, dcro said:

This Skip-Lead-First-Second table is not completely correct, as Skip doesn't need to be the Fourth.

 

Italian Skip is Third, while their "Third" is Fourth.

 

Fixed